Thats my plan. I went out to radio shack and got a female lighter assembly
for a few bucks, and I found that piggy back fuse thing at Pep boys. In
theory this is very simple. My really stupid issue now is getting a ground.
I can't seem to find a place close to the fuse box, that I can access, to
tie the ground to. Removing the panel seems like a pain. Those plastic
retainers seem like a one time use deal. Is there a trick anyone knows to
getting off these little white buggers without having to replace them? (Or
does anyone know what they are really called and where I can buy them?) This
is a leased car so I'm avoiding any drilling, breaking, bending, whatever I
can do to not mess anything up. All I need is a ground.

When you used your piggy back fuse, where did you get your ground (-)?

Thanks,
Mike.

"Elmo P. Shagnasty" <elmop@nastydesigns.com> wrote in message
news:elmop-6D6676.21274417102004@text.usenetserver.com...
> 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.
>