what wires do i use to get power from my rear view mirror. i can figure what wires r what on the telephone cord that i'm using to get power for my valentine one. please help. just need to know witch is witch . thanks.

 

Dem Teh Witches will get teh you

 

i know u don't understand what i'm trying to ask u guyz. all i need to know is. on the telephone wire that plugs into the velentine one, i cut it so that i could do a direct installation using the ground and power from the rear view mirror. my question is what wires from the telephone cord am i gonna use? and whats power and whats ground. i will really apriciate if one of u guyz help me with this.. thank you

 

I wouldn't wire it directly to the mirror. Tuck the wire in the headliner, go down the a-pillar, to the fuse box. Then take two wires, plug one directly into the fuse for the cig. lighter (15 amps) and the other one to the bracket around the fuse box as a ground and viola!

For more info....do a search....Hardwiring a v1

 

got it. from the rear view mirror. thanks guyz

 

Forget the mirror. Hardwire it. Mount the V1 to the left of the mirror on top of the windshield and stick the wires up into the headboard outta site. Then move the wires (all hidden) underneath the steering wheel and get power down there. You can buy a small piece for like $10 on the Valentine website to make it work. I can't emphasize enough how much better you will like hardwiring your radar than anything else. Just looks so clean ... almost like it came from the factory.

 

well it looks very good. no wires showing or anything. i have a mount right under the mirror. looks clean. thanks for u suggestion.

 

Yeah those do look pretty clean actually. Does it block any vision out of the windshield at all?

 

no not at all. sits right under. i got it for like 25 dlls from some guy here in the fourms. looks very clean ,like it came with the car . then on the front i put the z. when i boght my car it said failady z. so i use the z and super glue it on the front. of the bracket. and it fited perfect.

 

The hot wire that comes on with ignition is maroon stripe, the all black is ground. Works like a charm.

Chris

 

yep thats it. if u use the telepone cable on is the red + and green - it it doesn't work like it happend to me at first jsut swap them.

 

cna u show some pics pleeeze. im thinkin bout that setup

 

will do tomorrow

 

I have two pics of my setup but they are not that good, need some side shots.

To explain what is going on, I wired a phone wire into the rear view cable where it ran down to the mirror. This cable actually goes up the little plastic wire cover and then into the head liner where it turns around and plugs into a small phone cable female/female connector (that I found in one of those travel zip phone cord kits). The connector is 3M taped to the plastic wire cover and has a 4 inch phone cable coming out of it. I ran my detector with suction cups on glass for the first month with this setup until I realized I really wanted the rear view post mount from Mike. Now it hangs solidly below the mirror.

When the radar detector is not in the mount, the cable can be left on top of the mirror and it stays there even when driving. This is a rare occasion though because it's so quick to mount/unmount, I do it every time.

There is no need to do the extra connector for the install, it's just how I happened to install it because I wanted to leave room for experimenting with other mounting possibilities, like a g meter or something.

Chris