Arch93086

Ok, I put in the gauges and I wire them into the dimmer switch. Problem is, the gauges only light up 50% of the time. I know I have them spliced right because I'm not an idiot. It's stupid shit like this that pisses me off and makes me not want to mod my car. Any ideas whatsoever?

01tibby

those transformers are sometimes crappy. shake it when they are on to see if it is a bad transformer. also check your splices really good. pinch them down with pliers when the gauges are on to see if that affects them. how did you splice them? you should probably solder them to insure a good connection, or use some quick inline connectors.

just stripping a wire, rapping another one around it, then covering it up with electric tape isnt really a good connection.

Mad-Machine

I am a firm believer in stripping, soldering, and shrinking....

2bits

yeah i am doing lighting in my car, so much soldering, HEAT shrink tubing is so cool, kinda like a guy in cold water but with heat.. laugh.gif

01tibby

eh, when im in the car ill just use those crimp on connectors and stuff.

REDZMAN

I crimp, no problems.

Arch, can you reproduce the problem by doing something?

Arch93086

I crimped and recrimped about a million times. I think it may be the transformer. I turn it on, it works. I turn it back on, nothing. Is there any way to fix the transformer. I might just try pushing the wires into the transformer. Maybe something came loose. Sometimes the ghetto fixes work. Lol.

cdogtibby1

figure out what kind of transformer it is.... step up, step down.... how much.... buy a new one dude

Arch93086

Can you buy those anywhere? Like Radio Shack or something?

01tibby

its step up. shoots it to about 3k volts if im remembering correctly. i doubt its the transformer though.