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autometer cluster Wiring
I am wiring my new autometer gauges and have a few questions. First what guage wire should I use. And with all the grounds and guage light wires How is the best way to collect them into one feed wire? (some kind of distrubution block or just thee pigtails?)
Thanks for any tips I will be using a Pin connector plug for all the senders and stuff.
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Re: autometer cluster Wiring
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Re: autometer cluster Wiring
I like the harness but wow 75.00 bucks most of my guages are mech also so really just need to wire the lights and grounds and like 3 signal wires.
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I would just make one then, they arent complicated by any means.
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Re: autometer cluster Wiring
I built a gauge panel, and spent mega bucks on those autometer ultra lites a few years ago. I used 14 ga. wire coming off each gauge, and pigtailed the grounds and lights in groups of three as you mentioned. I used a double male, single female connector to connect the sets of three together, and ran a single 12 ga. common ground and another to the headlight switch for the lights. the tach and speedo lights were wired together in the same manner (8 gauges total) Next time I do a gauge panel, I'll use 16 ga. wire and maybe weather-pack type multi connectors, or do a nice soldered harness. Anyway, hope it helps a bit...cant seem to find any pics of the wiring, I'll keep looking.
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Ampacity of 14 ga. wire is 32 amps. at 60c .... 18 ga. is plenty for instrument lights capable of handling 16 Amps. Source: xtronics.com wire gauge ampacity chart This isn't a truck but demonstrates the proper use of zip ties. ![]() ![]()
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Re: autometer cluster Wiring
Excellent! smaller wire the better, thanks for the info!
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