In article <Sa2dncATLv0Fdu_cRVn-uA@rcn.net>,
"Michael Skurla" <michael@skurla.net> wrote:

> Does anyone know how I can steal power off of the fuse box on a Honda Accord
> 2005? More specifically, how do I get Behind the fuse panel to add a wire-
> and find a place to land a neutral near by.. I can't seem to find how that
> panel is attached. My goal is to get my XM radio powered directly from the
> fuse box instead of the cigarette lighter. I mounted my XM on the left side
> of the steering wheel, because there is really no good place in the center
> of the dash on the 2005 model.

Don't plug a SkyFi directly into 12v power. It uses 6v, and that
cigarette lighter plug is the transformer.

When I did this with a SkyFi, I ran a Radio Shack cig lighter plug off
of the fuse box and mounted it down low, and plugged the SkyFi into that.

On my 2000 Accord, there was an empty fuse slot that was intended for
the user to plug anything into, from what I could tell from the
documentation. I found a piggyback fuse system with a wire coming off
of it, designed to do exactly what you're looking to do--tap into the
fuse box--but without doing any weird surgery.