tired to hook up 3 led bars under the seat
here what happened
i took of the dash so i can cut the power wires which connects to the ciggi lighter, firstly the wires were too short so i extended it with a bit of wirer taken from a broken neon, which then i hooked up the 3 led bars to a switch. ok week gone by no real drama everything was sweet. untill i decied to try out my ciggi lighter, pushed it in and i think i overloaded it cos fuse snapped. ok replaced with another one try again this time eletric fire. dunno how and dunno the real extent of the damage gonna check it out in the morining.
any one know of a way to wire it up so that i can use the 3 led bars and the ciggi lighter?

its easy, at one point i was running 15 neons off the 1 lighter outlet.

all you need is a 4 socket adaptor.

Its just like a powerboard and a wall powerpoint. you plug the adaptor into the cig lighter, and it then has a "block" of 4 extra cig lighters - great for charging more then 1 phone on the move, neons, anything that needs a cig lighter.

I got mine at Repco for about $10 each, i know that Kmart as 2 socket adaptors. dont know cost, never bought one.

i've got 4 leds and 2 neon sub rings as well as 3 switches wired into mine and i've got no dramas at all.

(3position switches)

Oh no you werent. 15 lights maybe, but not neons.

Sounds like this guy got a short/overdraw here, and accidently replaced the fuse with something "higher rated". The new, higher rated fuse let more current through than the wire could handle. So fire.

15 neon bars ranging from 12" to 15"

4 in the front bar, 6 in the boot, 1 in each driver/passenger foot well, 2 under each seat = 14, my bad miscounted by 1

then i had 5 underbody neons (2ft long each) hooked up to switches.

Wow. most neons that big draw about .25 up to what, about 1amp of current. Most lighter sockets are rated about 10-15a...so it was a close call

A single proper neon with beefy inverter, however (shop front high quality stuff) would probably melt your cigarette plug wires.

well i fixed it, well i re did it and it came up in smoke my conclusion there is crappy wires so i used better ones and now it seems to be fine. as for the adaptors, i didnt want to use them cos i wanted to hide my wires. so um yeh ahahha if im brave enough ill plug in the cigg lighter thinggy again but im too scared atm

be a man and use a soldering iron!

ahahah i did man,

who uses the cig lighter anyways??jeezjust cover it up or something

Do many people use the ciggi lighter power lead for the accesories for their head unit? I think I heard that on here

Fire extinusher? (sp?) I dont smoke so i use my ciggi lighter for my HU acc power and 2 12" neons. No problems as yet

I'll remeber that just incase my multi-meter skills fail me

ok this what i done, riped out the middle dash cut the wires thats connected to cigi lighter, solder it to a switch along with 3 led. XD.
here a pic the middle one is so i can see my bass controller and my garage remote.
and the red dot is where the switch is