switched 12V supply

[afmuir]

Hi
Probably a basic question but I need a switched 12v supply and am wondering how best to take this from the fuse box. Do I need to undo the fuse box (batt disconnect first) and add in my connection to the back of the fuse box? Or, can I do this somehow from front of fusebox? Should I connect into an existing switched supply like the cigarette lighter or should I be connecting into a spare unused fuse position?
Thanks.

[afmuir]

Ok so after some more digging around perhaps the best place to take the feed from is the cigarette lighter which I have looked and figure I can cut into and piggyback a wire from. Now I need to figure out how to get the satnav wire from the right hand side of the window area through to the cig lighter area. I can see how to feed the wire down into below the steering wheel area, but haven't figured out what bits of trim I might need to undo in order to get the wire from there to the cig lighter.
If anyone knows a better way of doing this or can give me some tips, feel free to chip in!

[Snoopy]

Type 'add a fuse' into the search engine of ebay.
You will see they give a fused output as well as the standard fuse basically it piggy backs the old fuse slot.
The fusebox on the side of the dash. All the slots/fuses at the bottom of the fuse box next to the 30A ones including iirc the 30A ones are switched 12V

[afmuir]

That's great thanks, I reckon I'll go down that route, seems the simplest. Thanks.

[afmuir]

Just to update, wired in the satnav no problem. Fed the satnav cable down into the fuse area, plugged it into a female cigarette lighter socket , cut the end of that socket wire and terminated the earth in ring connector which I then connected to stud in the fuse area and fed the power wire through an inline fuse and then using a piggy back fuse holder into fuse 42 (cig lighter) in fuse box. All works fine. Thanks for the help.

[Snoopy]

Glad you got it all working.