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Old Aug 8, 2010 | 09:15 AM
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trying to hook up boost gauge need help

i have searched the forums even before i tried to hook it up, now i am no electrician but this isnt rocket science. i purchased a prosport digital boost gauge. the wires consist of

red=12v power
black=ground
green= to sender
yellow=accessory power

i ran the wires, now the sender was not connected to anything but could not get the gauge to even turn on. i attached the red to the cig lighter, red with black stripe yellow dots, and the black also to cig lighter brown. i found the accessorry wire behind the a-pillar grey/red i think it was. i turned the car on got nothing, turned on just to accesory got nothing, can somone help me or have any pictures of how they attached the wireing? i am more of a visual person. anything would help.

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Old Aug 8, 2010 | 09:35 AM
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red should be a constant power source and yellow tells it when to turn on. Make sure you have a yellow that is switched. Also, finding a good ground inside isn't always easy with all the plastic in cars. Make sure the ground is good with a test light.

Without the car running, it should read zero. No boost, no vaccum.

I think the cigarette lighter is switched and should have a good ground too if you don't want to go into the fuse panel.
 

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Old Aug 9, 2010 | 08:55 AM
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extremely simple, Green goes to gauge, red and white to power(orange coming form the cig lighter) black to ground(brown from cig lighter) , orange to light switch(gray from dtc-dsc). I might switch the orange light switch wire to go elsewhere because i like my gauges as dim as possible and you need 12v to trigger the red light switch in the gauge
 
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