Gauge Wireing

[R TUNE]

hey guys can people tell me how they have wired up thier gauges (pref 5).

i have the following.

oil pressure (drift neo)

oil temp (signal to be wired up) (drift neo)

volt (drift ignight)

water temp (drift ignight)

air fuel/ratio. (drift ignight)

all my gauges are being powered by the cig lighter circute (power earth and light switch), how ever to night i noticed that if i turned the lights off the water temp would fall by 15 dec and oil pressure would rise by 4psi. turn the lights on water temp rises by 15 dec and oil pressure drops 4psi. these were all so (not oil presser tho) affected when i applyed power while sitting in nurtral. can someone advise me on how to best wire up my gauges please.

chears brentt

[Omurru]

lol there's something dodge going on there.....stealing power/grnd/light from the ciggy lighter should work fine as it's only the power. For the gauges to be doing that something must be affecting the sense lines. Are they electronic or mechanical gauges? and i suppose the other obvious question where have you put all the sensors.....

[R TUNE]

lol there's something dodge going on there.....stealing power/grnd/light from the ciggy lighter should work fine as it's only the power. For the gauges to be doing that something must be affecting the sense lines. Are they electronic or mechanical gauges? and i suppose the other obvious question where have you put all the sensors.....

all the gauges are electrical.

the water has the sender located in the top radiator hose, air/fuel ratio wire is connected at the o2 sensor, and oil presser is connected to the gauges own oil pressure snder unit which is on the block. however i do have all the wires running near each other could this be the problem. also the power wire for the audio runs near them.

[Omurru]

Having all the gauge wiring running together should be fine. The audio power wire may cause a problem but I really doubt it, pull the fuse on the audio wire and see if you still get the problem...just to be sure it's not that. If you still get the problem I really have no idea Are the gauges all separate or do they run of a control box?

[R TUNE]

Having all the gauge wiring running together should be fine. The audio power wire may cause a problem but I really doubt it, pull the fuse on the audio wire and see if you still get the problem...just to be sure it's not that. If you still get the problem I really have no idea Are the gauges all separate or do they run of a control box?

all the gauges are seperate. ill try pulling the fuse out. one of the guys from the r31 club sugested runing some decent size gauge wire from the battery to fuesed relay then to the gauges.

[Beer Baron]

are they all really cheap gauges? the problem could be the gauges not the wiring.