santorin claus

<center><img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/13722/circus_058.jpg"></center><p>I want to tap into a switched wire in the overhead light cluster. I thought I was tapping into a sunroof power source as shown in the attached photo but I get nothing. Can somebody give me an idea of a better source to use (shown in the picture)? I don't want to go from Homelink because its in the visor over my head and I can't easily get to the fuse panel because the headliner is entirely flush with the windshield and a-pillar.

Please, no laughing at the dumb guy.

2.7tDallas

do a searh on the hardwire done by duodallas

santorin claus

I'm attention deficit and I'll never remember to turn off the detector and, more importantly, I'll forget to turn it back on.<ul><li><a href="https://forums.audiworld.com/a6/msgs/291006.phtml">hardwired to map lights</a></li></ul>

BasicSlvr

It's also switched. Search here for info. https://www.audiworld.com/tech/elec.html

<img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/24101/sig.jpg">

2.7tDallas

it is switched. duodallas says that the curcuits shhut off themselves after 30 minutes

Stoney

I tried this myself on a friend's A4, and tapped the wrong wire! D'oh.

Try this one:<ul><li><a href="https://forums.audiworld.com/a6/msgs/7437.phtml">https://forums.audiworld.com/a6/msgs/7437.phtml</a</li></ul>

TraderAlex

I installed an OEM auto-dimming compass mirror in my Avant, which had no previous wiring to support the mirror. I did my tap into the Homelink. Somewhere back, I have a detailed description how to do it, posted to this forum. But you use the smallest self-tapping wire clips you can find, and carefully attach them to the Homelink wires, after first removing the visor from the wiring harness.

The headliner is actually not flush with the leading edge of the windshield. I am not sure what you are trying to power up-but, there is an inner and outer channel in that metal beam that runs from the Homelink wiring access down along the windshield to the left of the moonroof housing. You have to snake 20 gauge wire rightward from the Homelink to the two snake-eye holes you can see forward, inside the moonroof housing. It's tricky to pull the wires through from the opposite side of those tiny holes, but workable-I did it within ten minutes. Doing this will get you live wires from the Homelink to the inside of your moonroof housing. If you are trying to connect a mirror or radar detector, this is both an easy and ideal route.

santorin claus

Thanks all. I'll report back my results.

santorin claus

<ul><li><a href="https://forums.audiworld.com/allroad/msgs/51033.phtml">instructions</a></li></ul>

Stoney

Is that 12v switched with the ingition?