[DeTomaso] Best place to hook up a new circuit

[thomas]

Anyone recommending hooking up a power drain directly to the battery of a Pantera, or any car with an ammeter, has no clue about automotive electrics.

Unless it is a starter, or a drain only used while stationary, it is just plain wrong.

Thomas

22 jul 2012 kl. 17:25 skrev "CharlesMcCall" <charlesmccall at gmail.com>:

> Hi all
> 
> 
> 
> The now-famous Loire Valley Tour participants were kind enough to chip in
> and buy us a set of Xenon lights for my Pantera.
> 
> 
> 
> I saw these installed on Roger Coates' GT5-S 2 years ago, and was struck by
> the difference in light output - every time we went through a tunnel, I
> could tell which car was his without glancing twice - it put out a lot of
> light. 
> 
> 
> 
> (as a side-note, it is interesting to note the hand-made nature of this
> car... taking off the headlight trim pieces, they are held in place by a
> simple drilled-and-tapped hole. The splash shield in FRONT of the front
> tires - some of the nuts are installed nut-side out, and others bolt-side
> out. Maybe this was done by someone else along the way, but I can't think of
> any reason why a mechanic would have done that under my care. The passenger
> side and drivers side are different, so I assume it was whim when assembling
> the car in the factory. Kind of hard to see, but here's the front of the car
> with the splash shield removed:
> 
> http://www.poca.com/index.php/gallery/?g2_itemId=36721
> 
> 
> 
> On the back of the splash shield is the air-horn, stock on this car, as seen
> here:
> 
> http://www.poca.com/index.php/gallery/?g2_itemId=36718
> 
> 
> 
> Anyway, I digress. I need to hook up the xenon lights to a 12v source, and
> according to the directions I should hook it right up to the battery. It has
> its own 25amp fuse, but there seems something a little primitive about
> running a wire directly to the battery for each new circuit I want to add. 
> 
> 
> 
> Electrical people out there - what's your recommendation? The cable is
> rather short and I don't have a lot of room... hook it directly to the
> battery, or ??
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Charles McCall
> Raising Pantera Awareness Across Europe
> 1985 DeTomaso Pantera #9375
> <http://www.poca.com/index.php/gallery/?g2_itemId=2323>
> http://www.poca.com/index.php/gallery/?g2_itemId=2323
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