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Old Sep 28, 2007 | 11:19 AM
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I am all thumbs in the garage so I am hoping someone can help me out. I am installing a Sirius radio on my HD Road King. The power for the radio is a plug that is intended to go into a cigarette lighter. I want the install to be clean so I am routing the wires under the tank. I can't cut the plug off and wire to the battery because the plug actually steps the voltage down to 5v.

Any recommendations on how to make this connection? Thanks
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Old Sep 28, 2007 | 11:39 AM
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Old Sep 28, 2007 | 11:41 AM
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Disassemble the plug itself and wire the feed side into the plug under the seat, one side of the plug is keyed from the ignition/acc switch, and the other side is power all the time. It's a 4 pin plug so you may have to do a little parts fitting from radio shack or something, but's it's not hard. Hope that helped a little bit, and what kind of speaker setup did you go with?
 
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