Radar Detector

[Goldie]

How would i wire my 1997 St to be able to plug in the detector?

[rdfeatherstone]

On the right side of your battery there is an auxiliary electrical connection. It is rated at 5amps if I recall properly. It is also switched, so it is off when the ignition key is off. Good for preventing a dead battery.

If this is the only thing you wish to hook up, then you can hook up a cigarette lighter socket and then plug in the power cord of your detector. The positive is hooked up to the auxiliary wire and the negative to a frame ground.

If you want to power more items, I suggest you look up connecting an auxiliary fuse block and power relay.

Ralph

[Goldie]

Where would i plug it in at? I don't have a place to plug it in.

Goldie

[STill Fiddlin]

There's lots of options. If you want to use the cigar lighter plug that came with the detector, you'll have to buy a socket - either an inline one you can wire in, or actually cut a hole and install the socket. The only advantage to using that socket is that the plug probably has the fuse for the detector built in.

You could go to radio-shack and (probably) buy a DC plug to fit, and wire it directly with an inline fuse.

You could install a Powerlet socket (more typical), and get a cigar lighter to Powerlet adapter, or you could fuse the Powerlet socket, and cut off the cigar lighter plug and put on a Powerlet plug. Just lots of ways to skin that cat - it depends if you want to move the detector between the bike and the car, and how much wiring and drilling you are comfortable doing.

[Goldie]

Thanks Keith!--Goldie