Please excuse my electrical ignorance! I need help!

[dspikes]

I have a 1985 gas G1. Bought a 12v motorcycle amplified stereo sysem for it. I hooked it up directly to the battery, and it sounds great! I bought a 12v toggle switch for it, because I don't want it to have the opportunity to drain the battery at all when the cart is sitting. I just want to make sure that off is off. The 12v toggle switch has one black and one red wire coming from it. How should I wire this? Should I use it as an inline switch (positive wire from battery hooked to red switch wire, and black switch wire continuing on to stereo fused wire? Any suggestions? Thanks.

[scottyb]

Just splice it into the 12v positive feed line for the radio.... should be simple enough

[Recoil]

shouldent matter what direction you splice it ether red to black or black to red all its doing is cutting the current off ether way

[technoid]

Originally Posted by dspikes

I have a 1985 gas G1. Bought a 12v motorcycle amplified stereo sysem for it. I hooked it up directly to the battery, and it sounds great! I bought a 12v toggle switch for it, because I don't want it to have the opportunity to drain the battery at all when the cart is sitting. I just want to make sure that off is off. The 12v toggle switch has one black and one red wire coming from it. How should I wire this? Should I use it as an inline switch (positive wire from battery hooked to red switch wire, and black switch wire continuing on to stereo fused wire? Any suggestions? Thanks.

First wire a fuse right off the battery connection on the positive side. Then from the fuse to your switch. Use either side of your switch wires. Red or black. It don't matter. Its your own color preference. Its just a series connection. Then to your radio. On mine I use a main power relay. Its wired to the key switch. So when the key is off the relay is off. And all power to any accessories are off.

[dspikes]

Thanks for the advice! The before and after paint pics will hopefully show the stereo installed!

[DOOmsman]

A quick question? does the switch have a light in it?
If so the red is the feed wire.

[dspikes]

No, it doesn't have a light in it. I wired it in series with the red wire from the battery to the stereo (the stereo "red" wire already has a fuse installed). Then I ran the negative wire from the battery to the stereo. Works great! Now I just have to decide where to mount the speakers! I'm painting the cart, so I have some down time to decide where to put them!