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Escort Passport 8500 X50 Custom
Install |
Valentin Berechet
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2004 |
Cut off the end of the plug.
On the circuit board, strip the wires as needed. For the 12v+ and the
negative, solder extension wires that will reach from where the display will
be located to the fuse box area.
Solder a connector on the black negative wire for the ground.
Use one of the scews that held together the cigerette lighter plug to hold
the circuit board to the modified plug.
After feeding the telephone cord through the hole, splice the ends of the
wires.
Solder the wires (color matched) and electric tape them.
I used the #5 fuse which is for the telephone/tire monitor/maintainance. It
is a 10A fuse which I figured would be sufficient. The #5 fuse is a switched
fuse which will only activate the detector while the car is on.
Wrap the 12v+ (red) wire around one of the prongs and place back into the
fuse box.
Ground the black wire to the bolt shown.
Insert the circuit board/half-plug in the cover and install back into the
dash. (The circuit board/half-plug will need to be glued in which I didn't
do yet)
The green LED will be constantly lit during operation. The wires for the red
and green LEDs can be swapped if you prefer the red LED to be on at all
times and the green to flash. A red LED can also probably be purchased at
Radio Shack to replace the green LED.
If you want to do the install without the SmartCord conversion, you can
simply splice into the sunroof 12v wire and ground the detector on the screw
hole pointed out (screw holds light/sunroof assembly)
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