ok i bought a 12in neon for my subwoofer box in my trunk..

i want to mount it to my amp

anyway would i just splice the wire, and splice the rmt wire ?

merge them together like that?

 

why would u put a neon on ur subwoofer thats :ghey: if thats what u want go to pepboys and pick up their 8" neon woofers.lol. but yea u can just splice ur remote wire to use that as power to the neon.

 

just splice ur remote wire to use that as ur power source. as long as the neon runs on 12v it should turn on and off with ur amp.

 

Oh I thought u meant the car

 

me too

 

I was planning on saying how crappy of a car a neon is...

 

Just tap the ground and remote on the amp and your golden

 

didnt work... it only works when i have the silver wire to the ground and the gold to the battery, direct power not the remt.

so its either constantly on or not at all...

 

alright, solder off the 2 ends of the bulb in the trunk

 

what? i dont understand sorry.

 

no disrepect, but take the neon back to advanced discount auto and buy something that, well, makes a difference. Do yourself a favor and forget any/all styling techniques you've ever seen on one of the fast and the furious movies. Buy something worthwhile, something performance wise or just something that doesn't glow. Honestly, how often od you stare at your trunk open? unless u'r going for a show car, then by all means glow it up, but unless u'r gonna show it off all the time what's the point?

 

i do go to a lot of parties :x)

 

Alright, 2 things. First the power and grounds should work by touching to the battery power line and ground on the amp, if that doesn't work, then you won't be able to power off the remote because it's not a constant power. If you look at your trunk light, you can touch the positive and negative on each end of the bulb and get the neon to light. I hardwired my trunk led bar to get powered by my trunk led bulb, by finding pos/neg and soldering to each end of the bulb, this is the other option. Every other friend I have installed neons for, I have used the trigger and ground on the amp.

 

i would also return the neon, i bought the blue trunk led from http://ledautomotive.com/ for $5 and it looks just as good as a neon, but it looks cleaner from the fact that its the trunk light.

 

prepared to flame a Dodge Neon, but strangely im pleasently surprised that its a light, and for me thats saying something


anyways, maybe the remote wire wasnt carrying enough current, if that the case id buy a relay, take the remote power for the relay, ground the relay with the amp, and draw power for the accesory from the amp wire as well. real simple

 

pep boys sells 8" neon woofers.

 

i used my remote wire from my amp to power stuff before and had no problems. make sure that ur amp is getting 12V to it and that ur tapping off a good ground. u shouldnt have to run straight off of battery and if u do then u have a problem with ur remote wire. and u can also tap off of the light that u have in ur trunk that come on when u open it so the neon wont be on all the time.

 

I was strangely under the impression that the rmt wire was a 5V. Just wondering aren't you guys afraid of pushing too much power through the deck? Unless your remote wires doesn't go through the deck like mine but direct from the ignition. I might have my story mixed up, heh.

 

12 volts is 12 volts, I use all LED bars which draw significantly less than neon bars, but my buddy has a half dozen neon bars wired through both his cars, 2 sets on each amp on the remote wires and he has no problems. I helped him wire them.

 

i also had two led bars also running off of the remote wire and never had a problem.

 

Yea, I was going to in disgust

 

oh i got it working now looks pretty bad ass

 

Did you use the trigger wire?

 

sounds good, id try it out, but my sub system doesnt have a chance of holding one... Ill try to re do the trunk light in blue instead

 

yepp