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Old 05-01-2004, 03:21 PM
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Arrow VARAD LED Scanner

I bought a VARAD LED scanner to go in the dash of my 8. It's one of those little light bars that flash back and forth when the car is off. Anyways The instructions that came with it aren't the best. It says :

Black Wire - Battery Negative or Chassis Ground (-)

Yellow Wire - Ignition - Ground when engine is off (fuse box, i.e. Radio Fuse)

Red Wire - Battery Positive Constant (+)

Can anyone give me suggestions of which fuses in the fuse box I can wire the red and yellow wires to? Also what would be a good source for a ground? I looked around the fuse box and didn't see anything that would work to good... I figured someone who has installed something to their fuse box could share with us what they used as their ground.

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The black and red are obvious, the yellow is tied to a 'switched ground' or a 'switched positive', depending your unit). If you want it triggered by a trigger pulse somewhere else in the car (like an alarm system) connect yellow to that.

I just wired a positive/negative pair to a multitap out of the fuse box. There are numerous threads with great pics of the fuse box drivers side to work from. Test anyway to be sure. It's a little pain, but then you have a multi-tap connection for later use.

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