Me, Being cheap as a 13 year old am using cheap neons (lite glow and some other one...Studio54 i think) But i bought a 3 cig. lighter recepticle that allows it to beat to the music but i found out that it's 2 cig lighters and 1 terminal. A fellow Maxima owner told me to strip the wires on one of the neons and stick it into the terminals...However, when i did, the neons did not light and the recepticle now won't work....Any suggestions??

please no flames

 

I am not sure but some neons have a converter or some thing in the "male" part that plugs into the socket

 

check your fusses it sounds like you may have hooked it up backwards or shorted it and blew a fuse. Other than that its hard to tell without looking at it but if you hook the wires up backward you let the smoke out of the neons.

try the fuses and see if you can at least get the plugs to start working then worry about the other.

 

Okay, I couldn't really tell which was positive or negative in the dark so I did the guessing game....Could this have been it, if so, should I check the recepticle and what else?

 

check the recepticle and the neon and the cig. lighter fuse.

Never play the guessing game with + and - on most DC stuff unless you want to fry that stuff...about the only thing I can think of that will not fry if hooked up backwards are some fans and they will run backwards.

 

Which ones positive/negative, the copper one or the silverish wire?


I couldn't tell in the dark

 

I have no idea...there is no way for me to tell unless I take it apart myself and see where it comes off of the cig. lighter adapter.

Do this...look at the wires that are left on the adapter and find the one that goes to the center part and that will be your +

 

alright then, thanks!! I think i remember what came from which

 

Yup, Yup, I blew my recepticle but I don't know how to check my neons that I stripped.......Any Ideas?