I have some regular Hella 500 lights on my trojan bumper. It recently hit me - "Hey, how do i turn these on?" and then I realized they weren't connected at all. On my older jeep I used to run all these extra lines off the battery, but I find that solution is a pain in the ARSE and not quite as clean as I would like. Did any of you add aftermarket lights? Did you create a whole seperate panel of relays & fuses? Circuit Breakers? Has anyone checked out some aftermarket fuse panel for adding more components nice and cleanly? Any pics?
...and here is what we did for switching and a panel.
We are very happy with the results.
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Greg in Austin
2008 Ford 6.0PSD EB/E-PH SMB 4X4 Aluminess f/r bumpers (13.5mpg avg, 15mpg hwy) 52k miles [Texas McBeast]
2006 Toyota Prius (48 to 68 mpg) 120k miles [Penelope]
2013 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon (15 to 18 mpg) [Johnnie]
2012 Mitsubishi MiEV (no gas required) ($.50/day in electricity) [Evie] https://badge.facebook.com/badge/1232...3.32047100.png
Joe,
here is what I did. it's the sPOD system. Very clean and very well designed.
there are two parts: the switch panel:
and the relay box under the hood (in the open position):
you can see alot more details in my gallery.
steve
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'05 Ford V-10 4x4 SMB "50" White
'00 Jeep Cherokee 4x4 Highly Modified
'04 Jeep Grand Cherokee- wife won't let me modify it. :-(
Does anyone really read this stuff other than surfgeek?
Not at all Joe.
In fact the owner made us a special 9foot cable to reach above the windshield. he did this for me as well as myriad myriad (Jeff). He can customize the system for different uses. Worth every penny. There is another post about this that I did a writeup on- use the search. Feel free to ask me any more questions.
steve
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'05 Ford V-10 4x4 SMB "50" White
'00 Jeep Cherokee 4x4 Highly Modified
'04 Jeep Grand Cherokee- wife won't let me modify it. :-(
Does anyone really read this stuff other than surfgeek?