I am curious as to whether or not the following is possible...
I have some called an AutoXray for my car. It's a hand-held scanner that plugs into my OBD port and tells me various data parameters via my cars on-board computer. It's hand-held and runs on 4 "AA" batteries.
Now, because I like doing a lot of custom things with my car, especially the interior, what I am wanting to do is take the AutoXray apart and fabricate it into my dash permanately. I have found that this will be quite simple other than the fact that I don't want to always have to be replacing the 4 "AA" batteries. I want to make it so that it runs off the cars power.
From what I've researched already, I think all I need to do is buy one of those 12 to 6 volt adapters that they sell at Radio Shack, and wire it into the AutoXray. Am I correct in assuming this? The only thing that sucks is that the AutoXray ONLY can be powered with 4 "AA" batteries and doesn't have an input for an adapter plug. But I'm assuming that if I just do some re-wiring, I can get it work correctly...
Anyone here have any input for me?
THANKS!:)