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<blockquote data-quote="Richard-the-Ninth" data-source="post: 558076" data-attributes="member: 23472"><p>daisy, a car is not wired the same as a house. What you would normally do, is take a wire from a spare fuse, (This is the positive +ve) take this wire to one side of a switch. </p><p>From the other side of the switch go to the first light's +ve connection.</p><p>From here you then go to the 2nd, 3rd & 4th lights +ve terminal.</p><p></p><p>Each light now has a wire that goes +ve when the switch is turned on. The lights will NOT work as we have not yet connected the negative. (-ve) Since the car is metal, if you secured each light with a screw or two, you probably screwed into the steel work of the car. All you need do is connect the -ve of each light to the screw that is securing the light, there by you are connecting it to a permanent</p><p> -ve.</p><p></p><p>If you have not screwed each light to the steel work of the car, you will have to run another wire from each lights -ve terminal and find somewhere you can attach a screw, and connect the wire to this. Obviously do not drill through a side panel or the roof. (It will work, but you will have a leak and a hole you do not want.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Richard-the-Ninth, post: 558076, member: 23472"] daisy, a car is not wired the same as a house. What you would normally do, is take a wire from a spare fuse, (This is the positive +ve) take this wire to one side of a switch. From the other side of the switch go to the first light's +ve connection. From here you then go to the 2nd, 3rd & 4th lights +ve terminal. Each light now has a wire that goes +ve when the switch is turned on. The lights will NOT work as we have not yet connected the negative. (-ve) Since the car is metal, if you secured each light with a screw or two, you probably screwed into the steel work of the car. All you need do is connect the -ve of each light to the screw that is securing the light, there by you are connecting it to a permanent -ve. If you have not screwed each light to the steel work of the car, you will have to run another wire from each lights -ve terminal and find somewhere you can attach a screw, and connect the wire to this. Obviously do not drill through a side panel or the roof. (It will work, but you will have a leak and a hole you do not want.) [/QUOTE]
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