Installing Home-Link & Lighted Sun-visors...

[Todd82TA]

Hey guys,

I bought a set of sunvisors from the junkyard that were lighted and had a home link / recording and playback device built in. I also snagged the wiring pig-tail too...

Now, I've installed both harnesses and wired both visors to where the ends of the wire protrude into the overhead console. I haven't yet hooked them up because I'm not sure what to hook them up to. Obviously, the grey wire can just go to the chassis ground... but the orange wire should be hooked up to something. Can anyone tell me if there is a RUN power feed in the overhead lighted console? For what it's worth, this lighted console also has outside temperature and a compass on it. That ONLY turns on when the car is running so I assume there is a RUN power feed. Just not sure if I want to tap into that, or if I should be using a seperate circuit.

Any help would be appreciated. I'd love to hear from anyone who's already done it.

This is going in my 2001-2003 Explorer Sport (and just so this thread doesn't get moved, just want to remind the admins that Sport owners of 2001-03 cars are supposted to post in here as per the heading "Ranger and 2002+ Sports (2dr).")


Thanks guys!!!

Todd
2002 Ford Explorer Sport

 

[Joe Dirt]

Did you not have lighted visors before? I've always seen the visor light as green or green/orange. But I've not had to wire them from anything other than the visor wiring...

My homelink visors I had to switch to the early 2nd gen single wire plug and use a chassis ground, but the wire was already there to tap into since I was replacing lighted visors.

The homelink is just wired in series after the driver's side visor light, it's nothing special...

You want an always hot lead like your map lights, or your homelink will not work when the truck is not on...

 

[Todd82TA]

Did you not have lighted visors before? I've always seen the visor light as green or green/orange. But I've not had to wire them from anything other than the visor wiring...

My homelink visors I had to switch to the early 2nd gen single wire plug and use a chassis ground, but the wire was already there to tap into since I was replacing lighted visors.

The homelink is just wired in series after the driver's side visor light, it's nothing special...

You want an always hot lead like your map lights, or your homelink will not work when the truck is not on...

Thanks, I appreciate it. But that's kind of what I wanted to avoid too. I will never really need to get into my garage, or the gate at my parents residential community, when the car is off. If I leave my car parked in my driveway, it would be fairly easy for someone to break into the car and open my garage door with the Homelink.

Yeah, my car came pretty loaded, but totally lacked the lighted mirrors... very weird. I grabbed a set from an older generation sport. They were actually the two-layer ones. The ones that have the small visor, and the large visor together (to sheild both the window and windshield) as well as the lighted visors, and the homelink. It's been in it's current status for like 3 months already, so maybe there only is one wire? I'll have to check... I completely forgot now.

But ideally, if there was a hot lead up there only when the car is ON, that would be ideal...

 

[ranger7ltr]

You can run the Homelink from a switched power lead...

If you have an overhead console[and I saw that you do] the wiring is there to tie into and power that homelink when the key is on only...

Here is a link to the wiring for the overhead console...http://www.therangerstation.com/Magazine/Fall2008/explorer_overhead_console.htm

Hopefully this will fix you up...

 

[Joe Dirt]

That plus a multimeter should be great- if the wiring schematic doesn't help or match, just probe some wires for a hot-when-on wire and work into that one...

good luck!

 

[Todd82TA]

If you have an overhead console[and I saw that you do] the wiring is there to tie into and power that homelink when the key is on only...

Here is a link to the wiring for the overhead console...http://www.therangerstation.com/Magazine/Fall2008/explorer_overhead_console.htm

Hopefully this will fix you up...

NICE!!! This is EXACTLY what I need!!! Thanks a lot!!!

That plus a multimeter should be great- if the wiring schematic doesn't help or match, just probe some wires for a hot-when-on wire and work into that one...

good luck!

Yeah, i got one, I was just hoping I could be lazy about it.