When you installed your aftermarket gauge faces (eg. Speedhut), what did you fuse the power at (how many amps)?

 

I used the wire coming out of the dimmer switch, no fuse.

 

Nice, radu! Thanks fing02.gif I was going to connect it to the parking lights wire (grounds when lights are turned on), and power from a constant power. I didn't even think of the dimmer switch.

 

Yeah and dimming will actually work too (although there is some slight blinking when it's dimmed, like an old CRT monitor, but it's not very noticeable).

 

cool. I connected my gauge faces and they work just fine. Much cleaner to have connected them to the dimmer versus my original idea (parking lights ground + constant ground). My dimmer's not working, though (I hadn't used it in a long time, so I'm not sure since when). It doens't dim at all; it's on fully illuminated. Any ideas? I did the LED mod in it, that's all I can think of.

 

Does the dimmer dim the other lights (HVAC, switches)?

I think i connected both wires to the dimmer (gauge face negative to green/black, gauge face positive to green/white). The dimmer I think actually changes the negative green/black rather than the positive green/white wire.

 

No, it doesn't dim any other lights (hvac, switches, cluster original back-lights, .... nothing). I have to be honest, I haven't used the dimmer for as long as I can remember, so it might've been caused a long time ago. Maybe time to get an old dimmer from the junkyard and try it out smile.gif

As for the gauge faces, I connected the green/white to positive, and the black to the faces negative. I didn't use the green/black. I think I tried connecting w/ the green/black, but didn't work.