1G white gauge help

[canaslupus]

Hello all, i have just got a indiglo gauges for my 1g eclispe off of ebay. It has a black and red wires to hook up to the car. Does anyone know where to hook up the wires to?

Thanks for any help.

 

[Ghost1984]

I have the reverse glow gauges, the black wire you want to ground, the red wire should be hooked up to a 12volt power source, i spliced mine into the stock gauge dim control....Hope that helps.

 

[hewhoisknot]

i spliced mine to the tail light so it just turns on with the lights andn ot have to worry bout another gauge...

 

[talontsi01]

You could also go into the cigarette lighter wires

 

[canaslupus]

Thanks for the help

 

[carly]

I just wanted to let you all know, that I wired my indiglo gauges into the dimmer switch power wire. After about 6 months, the gauges failed. I think the reason was because I thoughtlessly dimmed my lights too much and killed the indiglo control box. I replaced the gauges a few months ago and I just don't use the dimmer anymore.

 

[Drastik]

DO NOT HOOK THEM UP TO THE DIMMER.

I am an electrical engineer and the indiglo light control box acctuly sends a pulse of electricty to illuminate them, if you use the dimmer it reduces the voltage and it slows down the pulse wich in turn fries the control module. There is another way to dim the lights, but it involves pulling the control module apart and changing a few caps.

 

[dalailama333]

DO NOT HOOK THEM UP TO THE DIMMER.

I am an electrical engineer and the indiglo light control box acctuly sends a pulse of electricty to illuminate them, if you use the dimmer it reduces the voltage and it slows down the pulse wich in turn fries the control module. There is another way to dim the lights, but it involves pulling the control module apart and changing a few caps.

OK,
this is my work...:

I'm converting all internal amber lamp with blue leds.
Leds can't be dimmered directly by factory dimmer because under a certain voltage/current they light off. The right way to dimmer leds is to PWM control them. I'm building a PWM controller based on PIC 16F876 who read the dimmering level from factory dimmer and calculate the right duty cycle for the leds...
...dividing leds in different groups I can dimmer them indipendently and can light them on in sequence starting from a low dimmer level to the one I 've decided with factory dimmer. This works very well, but before install I've decided to buy a white gauges set and not just change the lights of the original one.

...and this is my problem:

White gauges are powered by a misterious black box who have 12V DC in input and 210V 2KHz AC in output! I wish it was so simple to connect the black box to factory dimmer... but as written in other posts... it melts factory dimmer, probably because the black box (probably an inverter) shot circuits and let flow high current in it.

This is my question:

Does anybody know how to dimmer electroluminescent panel (like white gauges), have electrical schemes of the black box or something helpful to me?