Live Wire

[LarQ98V]

Hi,

I'm tryin to find out which wire at the cig lighter is the live. I've tried using a circuit tester but i doesn't light up on either of them.

There's a grey wire and a white&black striped wire.

Any help would be great as i've got mot tomorrow and need to wire this fog.

[monka]

fog should be taken from a sidelight feed

[ecksjay]

indeed, if you hook it up to the cig lighter, it'll be an ignition live, and thus it'll be able to be switched on all the time, which is not allowed

ideally, you should use a relay switch and take the feed from the ignition/perm live, with the signal feed coming from the sidelight feed, so that it'll only switch on with the sidelights, but you'll be sharing the load on the main/ign live feed. it's how we used to do all imports anyway.

[LarQ98V]

indeed, if you hook it up to the cig lighter, it'll be an ignition live, and thus it'll be able to be switched on all the time, which is not allowed

ideally, you should use a relay switch and take the feed from the ignition/perm live, with the signal feed coming from the sidelight feed, so that it'll only switch on with the sidelights, but you'll be sharing the load on the main/ign live feed. it's how we used to do all imports anyway.

alright, cheers for the heads up

My electrical knowledge is basic so i might have to get someone to do it 4 me in that case. Seems a bit complicated.

[LarQ98V]

indeed, if you hook it up to the cig lighter, it'll be an ignition live, and thus it'll be able to be switched on all the time, which is not allowed

ideally, you should use a relay switch and take the feed from the ignition/perm live, with the signal feed coming from the sidelight feed, so that it'll only switch on with the sidelights, but you'll be sharing the load on the main/ign live feed. it's how we used to do all imports anyway.