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<blockquote data-quote="Chromatic" data-source="post: 8231098" data-attributes="member: 659121"><p>What Make, Model, and Year of vehicle?</p><p></p><p>Anyhow -- The Illumination is not usually a "dimmer" in the traditional sense where your headunit dims in increments as you dim your dash lights. It has two brightness settings basically and when you switch on the headlights one comes on, with lights off the other is on.</p><p></p><p>So if you don't want to try to find the wire's color.</p><p></p><p>Get your meter out -- and start testing the wires back there.. flipping on and off your headlights. You should get a 12v signal on a wire ONLY when your headlights are switched on.. then it should drop back to 0 with them off.. That's the wire you want. It could even be a wire from the cluster lights,.. the headunit just needs a 12v source that toggles on and off at nighttime.</p><p></p><p>Many people never hook their Illumination wires up -- as you can manually set the brightness of headunits.. and some people don't want it changed.</p><p></p><p>Since I don't know your vehicle, it's tough to help more than that. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chromatic, post: 8231098, member: 659121"] What Make, Model, and Year of vehicle? Anyhow -- The Illumination is not usually a "dimmer" in the traditional sense where your headunit dims in increments as you dim your dash lights. It has two brightness settings basically and when you switch on the headlights one comes on, with lights off the other is on. So if you don't want to try to find the wire's color. Get your meter out -- and start testing the wires back there.. flipping on and off your headlights. You should get a 12v signal on a wire ONLY when your headlights are switched on.. then it should drop back to 0 with them off.. That's the wire you want. It could even be a wire from the cluster lights,.. the headunit just needs a 12v source that toggles on and off at nighttime. Many people never hook their Illumination wires up -- as you can manually set the brightness of headunits.. and some people don't want it changed. Since I don't know your vehicle, it's tough to help more than that. [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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