Hello



I have a dual guage pod in my car and I have the air/fuel guage right now in....and I'd like to hook up another guage without having to spend like 200 bucks on one. I'd like to hook up an electrical voltmeter guage....but I have no idea on how..or where it would hook into. I haven't purchased anything yet....but I'd like to know how hard or how easy it is to hook one up. Also....is it possible to run the factory volt guage in the dash and an after market voltmeter guage in my guage pod? Any info would be great. thanks

 

well the guage will need any good body ground, then i would just spilce into the interior light switch (parking lights for example) so when you turn them on the light inside the guage will get the voltage to light it up also. as for the voltage reading, you should just use a fuse tap on the fuse block, i would pick the main acessories fuse, it will read battery voltage when car is off and the battery charing voltage when the car is turned on.

sure it should be no problem running two different guages.

 

so it's really not a huge process then right? Just a good ground, a power source for the light in the guage to come on, and a power source like a fuse so the guage can actually work? that dosen't sound bad at all

 

yeah did the same thing for a friend in his volkswagon and it worked fine, before i did a tach for him and that was just as easy, its just a matter of routing the wires so they cant really be seen and to have nice solid connections.

 

i ran the ground to a good body ground.

the light wire, i just wired tothe "IGN" terminal on the fuse block.

the signal wire, i ran straight to the alternator's terminal, that way it is the voltage that the "engine" is "seeing", and not the voltage that the stock instrument cluster is seeing.

yours will look just like mine...


-brian

 

impressive man! looks great.....is there anyway you could get me a picture of how you hooked the signal wire in though..to the alternator's terminal? I guess I'm having trouble seeing how you did that.