Rep Power: 0

It doesn't look like to many people come into this forum, but hopefully someone will see this and can help me! I have an '88 civic hatch. I have several things that are getting their 12v supply from the fuse box, from gauges to neons to amps. The fuse box has a million wires (well, more like 5 or 7) going into it. Can someone tell me if that's bad? And if it is, is there some sort of distribution fuse that can go in an empty slot to wire into or is there a way to put in another fuse box just for this purpose? Any help anyone can give me would be great. Thanks!

 
Rep Power: 578

I'm not sure if this will make a difference in the answer you are looking for, but I'm going to move this post to electrical and see if someone can help you from there since this section isn't frequented. Good luck!

 
Rep Power: 0

what you should have done is run it all straight from the battery on one big cable, then once in the car, you could distribute it with some barrier strips or distribution blocks

 
Rep Power: 0

Thanks Gr8ness! Ludlam, what about when you only want the power to turn on when the ACC is on, such as an amp or whatever?

 
Rep Power: 786

Then you hook up switched and constant power to your deck which is standard anyway. Switched power will control whether you can turn your deck on or not, as when there is no power on the switched line you will not be able to power on the deck. The constant power will most likely be where the decks power comes from, but I digress. If you want to be the amp controlled by ACC power, then you hook up your deck to use ACC power (by wiring it as mentioned above) and the deck will control the amp and in turn the amp can't be on unless the deck is on.

Hopefully that wasn't too confusing to you but I can clear things up if you have any questions.

If you want your actual amp power wire to be switched, then you can always hook it to a relay and have an ACC power wire controlling the relay. That way when you turn your key to ACC, the relay will complete the circuit and your amp will have power. I have never seen that done in an installation though, but it's a possibility if you really really want to. You can draw a good amount of current thru a relay (30 amps for example), so that is how you would do that.