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neileo
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Nov 17, 2015, 11:56 AM
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So I have a 02 f150, I bought it at an auction and I've had it for awhile, nothing mechanically wrong with it but when I bought it there previous owner had wires running all around and I know he had after market fog lights wired up but he took thoughts of but left the wires, but there are 2 other wires that I have no idea what are there for or what he did with them and I'm trying to put led pods next to my license plate, so if you know what these wires would be used for lemme know I'm gonna try to upload pics of them
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neileo
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Nov 17, 2015, 12:05 PM
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Ok so 10th at website just won't upload my photos even know they are jpeg, I guess I can just take those wires out, so what I'm thinking is running the wire to my pods and connecting it to a switch then running the switch right to the battery, or could I hook it up into the fuse box because that's were the other wires led to
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Nov 17, 2015, 12:53 PM
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You're better off uploading pictures to a hosting site like Photobucket and paste the link here.
That car may have had a back up camera.
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neileo
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Nov 18, 2015, 10:01 AM
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I'll try to upload the pictures but I highly doubt that, I think he had a cb radio in here for one of the wires but I'm what the other one is, but they aren't connected to anything I'm just trying to find the best way to wire these in my truck
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neileo
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Nov 22, 2015, 12:46 PM
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i really just want to know if its bad to run multiple things off your battery, such as a sub, led pods, and led under glow strips, because if i can hook it into the fuse box or something that would be great im just not sure how to do it, because my thought right now is just run power from the battery to a switch then the switch to the leds and ground it somewhere on the truck, the previuos owner had wires running into the fuse box but i pulled them out because they arent connected to anything anymore
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Nov 22, 2015, 1:20 PM
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You keep that stuff up and you'll be seeing the fire department soon.
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neileo
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Nov 22, 2015, 1:23 PM
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thats why i dont want to stack them on the battery, i want to either wire my pods to their own spot in my fuse box for power or to my running lights, im just not sure how to go about that
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Nov 22, 2015, 1:30 PM
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You need to understand electrical circuits a lot more than you do. This needs to be wired in with a relay and fuses.
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Nov 22, 2015, 2:10 PM
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I was bored.
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neileo
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Nov 25, 2015, 9:17 AM
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I got the relay for the pods and the diagram is similar to the one he made, although it says hook straight to battery, which is fine but the terminals on my battery are a lot bigger the than the ones on the wire, so either I need to cut them off and get bigger ones or get power from somewhere else
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Nov 25, 2015, 9:41 AM
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I wouldn't get power directly off the battery for the simple fact that the terminals will corrode and will corrode your terminal you install there. Best place to connect power is at the starter relay/solenoid terminal IMO.
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(This post was edited by Discretesignals on Nov 25, 2015, 9:42 AM)
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neileo
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Nov 25, 2015, 9:48 AM
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Appreciate the advice, i have an 02 f150, I'm not exactly sure where the starter relay termial is located, and this may be stupid of me because I actually replaced the started earlier this year
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neileo
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Nov 25, 2015, 9:50 AM
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Actually sorry about that with an easy Google search I realized where it was
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neileo
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Nov 25, 2015, 9:56 AM
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Where would you recommend I connect the grounds just to any metal on the truck like the frame
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Tom Greenleaf
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Nov 25, 2015, 10:39 AM
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Solenoid for starter is or should be on top of the starter where the wires went to when you replaced it,
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Nov 25, 2015, 1:22 PM
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Grounding to chassis is fine.
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