[DeTomaso] Best place to hook up a new circuit

[Tomas Gunnarsson]

Wouldn't your relay kit have a suitable source of power?
 
Tomas

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From: CharlesMcCall [charlesmccall at gmail.com]
Sent: 22/7/2012 5:26:35 PM
To: detomaso at realbig.com
Subject: [DeTomaso] Best place to hook up a new circuit

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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