faz27

hi guys a nice easy one for you all. im wanting to put led footwell lights in my 2000 bugeye but unsure where to tap into the interior light circuit. i want the footwell lights to come on with the interior light then go off it it does. before you all start i know its a bit chavvy but hey i like em not fancying taking the ceiling cover down and backtracking so where is the best place to tap into for pos and neg? wire colour and location would be amazing if anyone knows it. cheers

funkmasterjay

Not chivvy per se, it's what you want.

You need a permanent live to the led, and earth when the door is opened. Easiest way to find the switched earth is to remove the interior light and find the earth.

Take note of the colour of the wire, and trace it in he drivers side footwell.

I might actually do this too.

J

faz27

dam now why didnt i think of that doh!!! i like the look but i know its not everyones cup of tea. gonna put under car leds in to so when i press the central locking key the interior light light comes on (blue) footwells(blue) and under car glows (blue )lol then as soon as i start car all blue lights off so nice and legal. thanks for that gonna have a look tomoz.

funkmasterjay

As far as I know we dont have interior light with alarm, so you will need a switching relay with a timer. The feed should be the wire to your central locking motor (1 of 2) that is negative when you unlock. Or use one spare feed from an ebay total closure system.

J

faz27

my interior light comes on when i press unlock my car with my button. its a jdm nugeye so perhaps thats different on the jdm to type uk?

faz27

hi again, ive got my scooby in bits lol and dam me but im struggling! lighting was never my strong suit :-( been reading various posts on nasoic etc and loads of help on the newer cars but ive got a jdm bugeye and no help whatsoever. they say that i need a permanent 12v which isnt an issue but that i need a switched ground from my dome light to do what i want to do. but i simply cant work out which wire im needing to tap into and wire. any ideas would be MASSIVELY appreciated. gonna go to scoobyspares tommorow and ask neil if i cant figure it out. boo hoo

alcazar

iTrader: (2)

The interior light/s work by taking a live and through the dome light, then earthing it at any one of four places, those being the door pillar switches.

All you have to do is take the trim off near one and test each wire to it, see if it goes to earth or not.*

Then loop into the one going IN to the switch rather than the one going to earth.

some types of switches only have one wire: that's the one you want.

* To do this, make sure your footwell lights have a live. Take the wire going from them and touch it to any one of the two wires. If it stays on, test by pressing the door pillar switch in with your finger,. It should now go out. That's the wire you want to connect to.

If it goes out when you touch the wire, try the other one.

faz27

thanks for the quick response! so can i take any live ie from the clock or radio and just use the switched earth from the door button as you said?

alcazar

iTrader: (2)

Yes, you can.

faz27

ha ha! success! thanks for the advice alcazar. In the end neil at scoobyspares located the cables for me to work off. just in case anyones interested the dome light can be easily accessed behind the drivers front pillar cover. so now when i press my alarm fob or open the door my footwells and under the car glow blue. when i close the door or start the car they go off so nice and legal. happy days. ill take some piccys over next couple of days and stick em in here

alcazar

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I wish i'd known you were fitting under-car lights.

I'd never have helped you, you chav.

faz27

lmao shudda red da posts propaly den innit bruv!!!!

lol hey thats really hard writing like that. i know but im never growing up looks great imo but each to their own piccys here sorry about the quality of the piccys photography isnt my strong suit
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faz27

oh and if anyones wondering what that "chavvy lol" launch switch is for it turns my defis on and off so the oil pressure warning buzzer doesnt make a racket if the cars not running :-)

alcazar

iTrader: (2)

LOL......but why not just get your Defis wired PROPERLY?

On the controller:
Red: PERMANENT live, (even with the engine off).
Orange: SWITCHED live, ie: only when ign is ON.
White: Lights.
Black: Decent earth.

I'd like to bet your Orange wire is connected to something that is on when the IGN is on first click, not second?

faz27

think weve established how good my my wiring is lol but i have tried just that and doesnt seem to work. dunno why. read a few posts on here and others are having the same trouble. ive wired it to the plug behind the clock as its all marked up behind there. ill go and have a check now and put what ive wired too.brb

faz27

ok ive wired to the back off the clock since its all marked there and ive wired it as follows
orange to acc
red to battery
white to lig
black to ground.
when i spoke to scott at scoobyspares aboutthe oil pressure warning buzzer going off whenever the engine wasnt running he just said they all do it is this wrong?

faz27

just had a quick search off what acc is.... and um.... yes your right alcazar! lmao where can i find the right wire for the orange please.

alcazar

iTrader: (2)

I can't remember where mine is tapped in, but IIRC I took the cowling off round the steering column, and used a circuit tester like this: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CAR-CIRCUI...item563a0e4542 to probe wires until I found one that was only live in IGN position 2.

Takes 5 minutes to do once you have one of those.

faz27

cool thanks ill put it on my to do list! ill have to find something else for the swich to power now lol