Hello all,
I have a 4 cylinder '94 toyota pickup, and recently bought a garmin c550 gps unit for it. The c550 is powered using my cigarette lighter. I am thinking of adding a second cigarette lighter, probably right at the fuse box and fishing the c550's wire up through the dash so that the wires are hidden, and so i can use the cigarette lighter for other things.
I consider myself pretty handy mechanically, but I have never done any wiring in a vehicle. has anyone out there done something similar?
oh, and there are no spare circuits in the fuse box right now. i do want fuse protection, so i am thinking of using an in line fuse between the lighter and whichever hot wire i tie into. So i guess what I'm looking for is someone to tell me which hot wire i should be tying into.
I also would like the lighter to go dead when i turn the ignition switch off.
Thanks, Elliott