Knight Rider Style Scanner Lights

LED Scanning light effect for vehicles and model cars

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KS4164
3rd Generation Pontiac Firebird
Knight Rider Scanner Light

Installation Guide

OVERVIEW

Basically fit the scanner light to the existing 3 bolts under the bonnet and connect the plain black wire to ground and the black with stripe wire with fuse and switch and then to a permanent live.
Step By Step guide on installing the scanner light designed to fit a 3rd generation firebird.

Firebird NoseFirebird Gap for Scanner Lightwhere to install the scanner light

This is the gap to where the scanner light will be fitted.

rear veiw of where in install scanneranother shot of where to install the scanner light

You will see three bolts, this is where the scanner light will secure to.

ready to install the scanner lightis the camera man falling over at this point?

Using a 10mm spanner or socket, remove the 3 bolts.

now the 3 bolts are off.Put in one bolts t hold the scanner first and then do the other two.

Start with the left hand side of the scanner, put the bolt through the hole and start to tighten, but not all the way.  Put the other two bolts in place and make sure the scanner is flush to the front of the car before tightening all bolts up.

A nice snug fit from a knightlight scanner light.nice and clean, now need to route the cables.

This is what the scanner looks like fitted from the rear view.  Its up to you where you route the wires, I chose to run them along the front of the scanner circuit boards securing them to the vertical spacers.

I routed the wires up this side of the carlooking from behing over batteryover battery and you can see the radiator

We need to find a place to secure the black wire to, anywhere on the chassis is wired to battery 0V.  You will find bolts above the battery, you can use one of these.  I chose to use the red splice connector to connect to an existing wire coming from  the 0V bolt.

routed the wired along the bonnet release cableThrough an entry gland.

Now to find a route for the red wire.  We could use the bonnet release cable to tie the red wire to, the wire you can follow all the way into the car.  Where the bonnet release cable enters the car you will find a grommet covered hole next to it, I used this to get the wire into the car, ignore the blue wires in the photos that is for something else I have on the car.  The red wire has a crimp connector on the end this is to push on to the switch once its in the car.

The ascanner wires come in around the pedals

We need to find a place for the switch and the fuse, I put it on the center console and push the fuse up behind. The red wire that has come into the car from the scanner needs to be connected to the switch, it does not matter which connector goes on what terminal on the switch, because the switch either opens the circuit or closes it.

looking up by the fuse box.The scanner switch is under the radio

The wire from the fuse needs to be connected to either a permanent live or an ignition live, I chose the orange wire from the bottom right fuse, this is a permanent live, is the red splice connector to join these two wires together.  You may feel more comfortable disconnecting the battery before doing this.

top view of the fitted scanner light

Turn the switch on.  The light will be running.  It is even visible in daylight, not too good in this photo.  When closing the bonnet be careful that the bonnet catch does not hit the circuit boards, if the scanner is flush to the front then it shouldn't do.

all wired tidied away.

The switch is only in a temporary place at present, it will be on the dash next to the rear screen heater, but more things will be going there at a later date so all will be done at once. 

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The finished light.
WARNING: Moving lights or non standard coloured lights on a vehicles are illegal. For shows only