Neon Lights Help *COMPLETED*, I'm so CONFUSED! *Thanks to everyone!* 56k WARNING! Options

[ExSane]

Hey guys. I really need help with this one. I've been working at it for a while I can't seem to find a solution. So to all you technicians out there, please please help me out with this. Thanks in advance. Okay, I bought a neon kit from Autozone, the one where you plug it into the cigarette lighter and it has the on and off button on it. Well I wanted to mount it to the rear so I went ahead and mounted it and it looks great. But then I noticed that the cord can't reach the cigarette lighter so I cut the cord. Now I have 2 wires with both the same color. Isn't it suppose to be one is negative and the other is positive? I tried hooking them up to my AMP's neg and pos outputs for the speakers, becuz I thought it would have power from the main battery, but that didn't work. So now, I'm stuck. I'm thinking about running both wires to the main batter in the engine bay while trying to figure out which one is positive and negative. Will that work? Becuz I know in order for the lights to work, they can be turned on and off by the switch on the bar but it needs power. Does anyone know how to make this work?

UPDATE: (10/19/06)
Thanks to everyone who posted information on how this worked. I've found out that there is a DIFFERENCE between the two wires. One had a tiny white line on the wire to show that it is positive. I've also found out later after wiring everything that the buttons on the neon lights were not the transformer. They were the Pulse/No Pulse buttons and Sensitivity buttons. So, I basically wired it up straight to the battery and left it on PULSE. So that way, it doesn't use any battery since it's ON all the time. I don't have a transformer and I don't plan on getting one becuz it was a 4 hour installation and as a big hassle. So... LoL. Enjoy my lights guys.


















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This post has been edited by ExSane: Oct 19, 2006 - 10:07 PM

[ExSane]

Alright thanks guys. So I guess I'm gonna have to buy some red wires and blue wires and wire them straight to the battery. The transformer is *on* the neon lights [transformer]==================[]. So I guess its time to give it power. I didn't know it had to be 12V. Thanks guys.