Recently Auxbeam upped the game in switch panels when they released their new 12-gang panel. It's got a Bluetooth interface to a smartphone app, a handheld remote control, and 100 amps total capacity.
A few weeks ago they sent me one to test and review. The kit includes the switch panel, a handheld remote, the control unit, a 100amp circuit breaker, and various mounting brackets, wiring and other hardware.
I did test installs in both my LJ and my JKU; what follows is the LJ installation. If anyone is interested in the details of the JK installation I can share that as well.
Installing the Auxbeam AC-1200 Switch Panel in a ’97-’06 Jeep TJ Wrangler
Installing the Auxbeam AC-1200 switch panel involves a number of steps:
Mounting the Control Box
Supporting 12 circuits, the AC-1200 control box is fairly large. The best place I've found for it in a TJ engine compartment is on the driver’s side inner fender. In the photo below, the mounting bracket supplied by Auxbeam is mounted, it’s just aft of the washer fluid reservoir and just outboard of the cruise control.
Mounting the bracket requires drilling one new hole; also I used one factory hole in the fender. I’m not sure all TJ/LJ years have that hole but if not, then two holes may need to be drilled. The photos below:
1. The bracket bolted in place just outboard of the cruise control (not all TJ’s have cruise control, but the mounting of the bracket is the same whether or not cruise control is present.
2. The left arrow points to an existing hole in the fender. The right arrow show the location of a new hole to be drilled.
3. (and 4) Since the inner fender isn’t a flat surface, a nylon spacer is added under the bracket on the side towards the rear of the Jeep. Nylon spacers can be found at most well-stocked hardware stores.
Once the second hole is located and drilled and a spacer and bolts of the proper length are on hand, the bracket can be bolted in place by running the bolts down through the fender and putting nuts on the underside of the fender. Putting washers between the nuts and the fender sheet metal is recommended.
Once the bracket is bolted in place on the inner fender, the control box can be bolted to the bracket.
Powering the Control Box
There are two power connections to the control box – switched power to operate the box, and higher current power to operate any accessories connected to the system.
Auxbeam supplies heavy-gauge cables to connect the control box to the Jeep’s battery to power accessories connected to the system. Unfortunately the best place to install the control box is further away from the battery than the length of the supplied cables. Longer cables must be used, and they must be of a gauge heavy enough to carry the 100 amps of current that the control box is capable of supplying to accessories (or heavy enough for the accessories you plan to use, if the total is less than 100 amps).
A good way to make new cables is to start with a set of jumper cables. Stores like Walmart offer relatively inexpensive jumper cables which are an excellent source of the required wire – this set offers 4-gauge wire and retails for less than $20: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Everstar...motive-Booster-Cables-Jumper-Cables/182918724. Those cables are 20 feet long; only about 6 feet will be required to connect the control box to the battery so if you remove the clamps from the jumper cables, cut 6’ of wire from the 20’ and reinstall the clamps you will end up with a 14’ set of jumper cables and enough wire to connect the control box.
Also needed will be 4 ring terminals to terminate each end of the 6’ cables. Auto parts stores like AutoZone and many electrical supply stores offer ring terminals like those shown below – the accept 4-gauge wire and have a 3/8” I.D. ring which is perfect for connecting to the control box and the battery.
A completed cable to connect the control box to the battery made from part of a set of jumper cables can look like the one in the photo below. Red heat-shrink tubing has been added to one of the wires to indicate that it is the positive connection; black heat shrink tubing has also been shrunk over the ring terminals to protect them. The heat shrink tubing isn’t strictly necessary but it makes for a more professional looking cable. There’s a break in the positive side of the cable with terminals on each end of the break, that’s where the circuit breaker will be inserted into the circuit, as shown in the photo at right.
Supplying Operating Power to the Control Box
The other power connection required provides power to operate the system. It can go to the Jeep’s fuse panel for switched power. Switched power is power that’s only active when the ignition switch is in the on/run position and is recommended so the system doesn’t draw power when the engine isn’t running, which might drain the battery. Or, it can go directly to the battery positive terminal and power to the system is controlled by a supplied switch.
The kit came with two fairly short wires for connecting power to the control box. One piece has a fuse adapter on it and the other piece has a plug for the control box. The fuse adapter makes it easy to supply switched power to the control box, but additional wire will be required in almost all installations to connect between these two pieces. I'll call this wiring option 1:
When I met with Auxbeam at the SEMA Show, they gave me an alternate wiring solution. This one has a ring terminal on one end for direct connection to the battery and an inline fuse, a plug on the other end for the control box, and a switch in the middle for turning power to the control box on or off. The wires are long enough for most installations. This solution might be better for a camping/overlanding vehicle in which accessories might need to be powered at the campsite when the vehicle isn’t running, but one must remember to turn the switch off if the system isn’t to be used when the engine isn’t running. Or, the ring terminal can be removed and that end of the wire can be connected to a switched circuit if the system isn’t to be used when the engine isn’t running. I'll call this wiring option 2:
It wasn't clear at the time I'm writing this which wiring option will be included in the kits but whichever wiring solution comes with your kit, both wiring solutions have their benefits and drawbacks but either one will work fine in most implementations.
Implementing wiring option 1:
In the TJ Wrangler, fuse position 14 powers the Jeep's radio and provides switched power. Auxbeam supplies a fuse adapter with the kit; remove the fuse from position 14 in the fuse panel (which is behind the glove box), plug the fuse adapter into that position and insert the fuse removed from position 14 into the open slot in the fuse adapter and shown in this photo:
Auxbeam provides a short length of red wire with a two-pin plug on one end, this plug goes into a two-pin location inside the control box. The other end of this red wire must connect to the loose end of the fuse adapter installed above, and two things are necessary to do this:
1. An extra length of red wire is required because the combination of the fuse adapter wire and the control box wire is too short to reach between them. Suitable 16-gauge red wire can be found at most auto parts stores and Walmart.
2. The additional wire must be run from the engine compartment into the cockpit where the fuse panel is. Also since the switch panel will also be installed in the cockpit, the cable that connects the switch panel to the control box must also be run from the engine compartment into the cockpit.
Implementing wiring option 2:
With the second wiring option, the ring terminal is connected to the positive terminal of the battery, and the wires that connect to the switch get routed through the firewall as will be described below; the switch can be mounted in any convenient place on or under the dash.
Or, if it is desired to have the system be connected to switched power, the ring terminal end of the wire can be routed into the cockpit, to the fuse panel behind the glove box and connected to a switch circuit using a fuse adapter as shown with the option 1 wiring.
Connecting the switch panel to the control box through the firewall
There are several places in the Wrangler firewall that wires can be passed through.
1. In a Wrangler with a manual transmission, a rubber plug can be found in the firewall behind the driver’s side of the engine (arrow #1).
2. A Wrangler with an automatic transmission will not have a clutch cylinder (arrow #2). This photo is from a Wrangler with a manual transmission but if this were an automatic, a plastic block-off plate would be where the clutch cylinder is in this photo; a hole can be drilled through that plate to pass the wires. It’s best to remove the plate before drilling it just in case there’s something behind it that the drill might damage.
3. Below the block-off plate or the clutch cylinder in all TJ’s is a wiring harness pass-through (arrow #3). There is enough space in the hole in the firewall that the wiring grommet goes in to allow additional wires through, so if neither of the above locations are best for your situation you could run the wires through this hole.
Installing the Switch Panel
Once the switched power wire in run into the cockpit to the fuse panel and connected and the switch panel cable is run into the cockpit, it’s time to decide where to mount the switch panel.
Having 12 oversize switch buttons, it’s a fairly large panel to find a place for within reach of the driver in a TJ.
Some people mount it on the trim panel below the instrument panel and steering wheel, but mounted there it can be hard to see and may be a distraction while driving, so that may not be the best location. (A switch panel in this location is shown on page 5 of the AC-1200 instructions) Two other locations that work in the TJ are shown in the photos below – it can be mounted to the windshield frame trim above the rear-view mirror, or it can be mounted just ahead of the shifter on the center console.
There are two other options for controlling accessories connected to the system…
One is to use the supplied remote control. In this next photo, the remote is sitting in a cell phone holder that’s mounted to the windshield of the TJ with a suction mount. The remote can turn any of the 12 circuits on or off, the only thing you don’t get with this option is the labels on the keys so you will have to remember what each button does. But an additional feature you do get is the ability to control the circuits remotely – say for example you’ve got campsite accessories connected to the Auxbeam system, you can turn them on or off while sitting at the campfire. Perhaps campsite lights attached to the roof rack of the Jeep?
The other option is to use the Auxbeam Switch Panel app from your Android device or iPhone. The app is active in this next photo; the top half of the screen shows the 12 keys and you can configure the keytops on the screen with the same labels you might have put on the physical switch panel. And you can control the system anywhere within range of the Bluetooth connection. If you hold the phone horizontally, the switch panel will expand to fill most of the screen and the color selection will disappear.
Configuring the System
Once the system is installed and the accessories are connected, everything should be working – the accessories can be turned on or off with either the switch panel, the remote control or the smartphone app. I set everything up on the workbench to test the various switch configuration options - on/off, pulsed and momentary. In this video, switch 1 controls the light on the left in on/off mode, switch 5 controls the middle light in pulsed mode and switch 9 controls the light on the right in momentary mode.
The system can be configured either in the smartphone app or by using the keyboard.
The default backlight color is green but an alternate color can either be chosen from several preset colors at the bottom of the screen or by using the color wheel. It’s not hard to set the backlight color to match the color of the backlight of most vehicle dashboards.
This screen can also be used to operate the switches by pressing the button on the screen, and if the phone is rotated, the keyboard will expand to fill the screen as seen in the video above.
The Mode screen allows you to set the operating mode of the switch – there are three different ways the switch can operate:
Over 120 stick-on labels are provided for the switch panel and labels can be set for the smartphone app as well. The Icon screen is where these are configured, and one can choose photos or default icons and the text can be set.
There’s one more screen for grouping accessories together, this enables multiple accessories to be operated from a single switch. For example, if you’ve got three lights, on circuits 1, 2 and 3, you can group switched 1, 2 and 3 so pressing one will turn on all three. Unfortunately this option wasn’t working in the Android version of the app when I tested it. I mentioned this to Auxbeam and they demonstrated it on their iPhone and promised to fix and update the app for Android.
The many switch labels provided with the product:
If you need a label that's no provided, check out this link, in it you'll find out how to make your own labels: https://wranglertjforum.com/threads/auxbeam-6-gang-on-off-control-switch-panel-kit-review.53068/
Are 12 circuits too many?
I tried to make a list of a dozen accessories that one might control with this system, and I kept running out of "driving" accessories and adding "overland/camping" accessories to the list. These would be things like campsite lights, a water pump for a shower, etc. I like to run those accessories from my auxiliary battery so I never take the chance of running down my starting battery in the wild but the way this system (and all the Auxbeam systems and many from other companies) is designed, all of the power to operate the accessories comes from one battery, presumably the starting battery. What I'd like to do is to be able to power the "driving" accessories from the starting battery/main vehicle electrical system and power the "overland/camping" accessories from the auxiliary battery.
That turns out to be fairly simple with the addition of a relay board. In this next photo a 4-relay board is connected to the outputs 9-12 of the Auxbeam control box. Auxiliary battery power will go to one terminal of each relay, and an accessory will be powered by the output of the relays. The relays are rated at 10 amps, so almost all camping accessories can be powered that way - the most power hungry accessory I can think of is a fridge, and mine draws about 6 amps peak.
Relay boards are available with 1, 2, 4, 6 and 8 relays so it's possible to power many things from the auxiliary battery. You'll want a 12v relay board, and one that has a jumper to select to determine how the relays are activated - you want the jumper set to positive voltage rather than ground because the output of the Auxbeam control box will be positive voltage.
To finish up this option, the relay board should be mounted in a weather-resistant box, and the outputs of the relays should be fused to protect the relay board. The parts are readily available at places like eBay...
I've reviewed a number of other Auxbeam switch panels in the past few years, including their 6-gang, 8-gang, 8-gang with Bluetooth control, and the one the released just before this one, an 8-gang unit which includes dual switch panels.
Reviews I've done of some of the other panels:
Review: Auxbeam Bluetooth-Enabled 8-Circuit Switch Panel: https://wranglertjforum.com/threads/review-auxbeam-bluetooth-enabled-8-circuit-switch-panel.58281/
Auxbeam 6- and 8-gang Switch Panels: https://wranglertjforum.com/threads/auxbeam-6-and-8-gang-switch-panels.64350/
Auxbeam 6 Gang switch panel kit review: https://wranglertjforum.com/threads/auxbeam-6-gang-on-off-control-switch-panel-kit-review.53068/
I did a review on the dual panel unit but it isn't in this forum because it's mostly useful for Jeeps set up for camping/overlanding, which doesn't seem to be the main focus of the people here. It's here: https://forum.expeditionportal.com/threads/barn-door-for-jk-factory-hardtops.127687/post-3104431
A few weeks ago they sent me one to test and review. The kit includes the switch panel, a handheld remote, the control unit, a 100amp circuit breaker, and various mounting brackets, wiring and other hardware.
I did test installs in both my LJ and my JKU; what follows is the LJ installation. If anyone is interested in the details of the JK installation I can share that as well.
Installing the Auxbeam AC-1200 Switch Panel in a ’97-’06 Jeep TJ Wrangler
Installing the Auxbeam AC-1200 switch panel involves a number of steps:
- Mounting the control box
- Powering the control box
- Connecting the switch panel to the control box through the firewall
- Mounting the switch panel in the cockpit
Mounting the Control Box
Supporting 12 circuits, the AC-1200 control box is fairly large. The best place I've found for it in a TJ engine compartment is on the driver’s side inner fender. In the photo below, the mounting bracket supplied by Auxbeam is mounted, it’s just aft of the washer fluid reservoir and just outboard of the cruise control.
Mounting the bracket requires drilling one new hole; also I used one factory hole in the fender. I’m not sure all TJ/LJ years have that hole but if not, then two holes may need to be drilled. The photos below:
1. The bracket bolted in place just outboard of the cruise control (not all TJ’s have cruise control, but the mounting of the bracket is the same whether or not cruise control is present.
2. The left arrow points to an existing hole in the fender. The right arrow show the location of a new hole to be drilled.
3. (and 4) Since the inner fender isn’t a flat surface, a nylon spacer is added under the bracket on the side towards the rear of the Jeep. Nylon spacers can be found at most well-stocked hardware stores.
Once the second hole is located and drilled and a spacer and bolts of the proper length are on hand, the bracket can be bolted in place by running the bolts down through the fender and putting nuts on the underside of the fender. Putting washers between the nuts and the fender sheet metal is recommended.
Once the bracket is bolted in place on the inner fender, the control box can be bolted to the bracket.
Powering the Control Box
There are two power connections to the control box – switched power to operate the box, and higher current power to operate any accessories connected to the system.
Auxbeam supplies heavy-gauge cables to connect the control box to the Jeep’s battery to power accessories connected to the system. Unfortunately the best place to install the control box is further away from the battery than the length of the supplied cables. Longer cables must be used, and they must be of a gauge heavy enough to carry the 100 amps of current that the control box is capable of supplying to accessories (or heavy enough for the accessories you plan to use, if the total is less than 100 amps).
A good way to make new cables is to start with a set of jumper cables. Stores like Walmart offer relatively inexpensive jumper cables which are an excellent source of the required wire – this set offers 4-gauge wire and retails for less than $20: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Everstar...motive-Booster-Cables-Jumper-Cables/182918724. Those cables are 20 feet long; only about 6 feet will be required to connect the control box to the battery so if you remove the clamps from the jumper cables, cut 6’ of wire from the 20’ and reinstall the clamps you will end up with a 14’ set of jumper cables and enough wire to connect the control box.
Also needed will be 4 ring terminals to terminate each end of the 6’ cables. Auto parts stores like AutoZone and many electrical supply stores offer ring terminals like those shown below – the accept 4-gauge wire and have a 3/8” I.D. ring which is perfect for connecting to the control box and the battery.
A completed cable to connect the control box to the battery made from part of a set of jumper cables can look like the one in the photo below. Red heat-shrink tubing has been added to one of the wires to indicate that it is the positive connection; black heat shrink tubing has also been shrunk over the ring terminals to protect them. The heat shrink tubing isn’t strictly necessary but it makes for a more professional looking cable. There’s a break in the positive side of the cable with terminals on each end of the break, that’s where the circuit breaker will be inserted into the circuit, as shown in the photo at right.
Supplying Operating Power to the Control Box
The other power connection required provides power to operate the system. It can go to the Jeep’s fuse panel for switched power. Switched power is power that’s only active when the ignition switch is in the on/run position and is recommended so the system doesn’t draw power when the engine isn’t running, which might drain the battery. Or, it can go directly to the battery positive terminal and power to the system is controlled by a supplied switch.
The kit came with two fairly short wires for connecting power to the control box. One piece has a fuse adapter on it and the other piece has a plug for the control box. The fuse adapter makes it easy to supply switched power to the control box, but additional wire will be required in almost all installations to connect between these two pieces. I'll call this wiring option 1:
When I met with Auxbeam at the SEMA Show, they gave me an alternate wiring solution. This one has a ring terminal on one end for direct connection to the battery and an inline fuse, a plug on the other end for the control box, and a switch in the middle for turning power to the control box on or off. The wires are long enough for most installations. This solution might be better for a camping/overlanding vehicle in which accessories might need to be powered at the campsite when the vehicle isn’t running, but one must remember to turn the switch off if the system isn’t to be used when the engine isn’t running. Or, the ring terminal can be removed and that end of the wire can be connected to a switched circuit if the system isn’t to be used when the engine isn’t running. I'll call this wiring option 2:
It wasn't clear at the time I'm writing this which wiring option will be included in the kits but whichever wiring solution comes with your kit, both wiring solutions have their benefits and drawbacks but either one will work fine in most implementations.
Implementing wiring option 1:
In the TJ Wrangler, fuse position 14 powers the Jeep's radio and provides switched power. Auxbeam supplies a fuse adapter with the kit; remove the fuse from position 14 in the fuse panel (which is behind the glove box), plug the fuse adapter into that position and insert the fuse removed from position 14 into the open slot in the fuse adapter and shown in this photo:
Auxbeam provides a short length of red wire with a two-pin plug on one end, this plug goes into a two-pin location inside the control box. The other end of this red wire must connect to the loose end of the fuse adapter installed above, and two things are necessary to do this:
1. An extra length of red wire is required because the combination of the fuse adapter wire and the control box wire is too short to reach between them. Suitable 16-gauge red wire can be found at most auto parts stores and Walmart.
2. The additional wire must be run from the engine compartment into the cockpit where the fuse panel is. Also since the switch panel will also be installed in the cockpit, the cable that connects the switch panel to the control box must also be run from the engine compartment into the cockpit.
Implementing wiring option 2:
With the second wiring option, the ring terminal is connected to the positive terminal of the battery, and the wires that connect to the switch get routed through the firewall as will be described below; the switch can be mounted in any convenient place on or under the dash.
Or, if it is desired to have the system be connected to switched power, the ring terminal end of the wire can be routed into the cockpit, to the fuse panel behind the glove box and connected to a switch circuit using a fuse adapter as shown with the option 1 wiring.
Connecting the switch panel to the control box through the firewall
There are several places in the Wrangler firewall that wires can be passed through.
1. In a Wrangler with a manual transmission, a rubber plug can be found in the firewall behind the driver’s side of the engine (arrow #1).
2. A Wrangler with an automatic transmission will not have a clutch cylinder (arrow #2). This photo is from a Wrangler with a manual transmission but if this were an automatic, a plastic block-off plate would be where the clutch cylinder is in this photo; a hole can be drilled through that plate to pass the wires. It’s best to remove the plate before drilling it just in case there’s something behind it that the drill might damage.
3. Below the block-off plate or the clutch cylinder in all TJ’s is a wiring harness pass-through (arrow #3). There is enough space in the hole in the firewall that the wiring grommet goes in to allow additional wires through, so if neither of the above locations are best for your situation you could run the wires through this hole.
Installing the Switch Panel
Once the switched power wire in run into the cockpit to the fuse panel and connected and the switch panel cable is run into the cockpit, it’s time to decide where to mount the switch panel.
Having 12 oversize switch buttons, it’s a fairly large panel to find a place for within reach of the driver in a TJ.
Some people mount it on the trim panel below the instrument panel and steering wheel, but mounted there it can be hard to see and may be a distraction while driving, so that may not be the best location. (A switch panel in this location is shown on page 5 of the AC-1200 instructions) Two other locations that work in the TJ are shown in the photos below – it can be mounted to the windshield frame trim above the rear-view mirror, or it can be mounted just ahead of the shifter on the center console.
There are two other options for controlling accessories connected to the system…
One is to use the supplied remote control. In this next photo, the remote is sitting in a cell phone holder that’s mounted to the windshield of the TJ with a suction mount. The remote can turn any of the 12 circuits on or off, the only thing you don’t get with this option is the labels on the keys so you will have to remember what each button does. But an additional feature you do get is the ability to control the circuits remotely – say for example you’ve got campsite accessories connected to the Auxbeam system, you can turn them on or off while sitting at the campfire. Perhaps campsite lights attached to the roof rack of the Jeep?
The other option is to use the Auxbeam Switch Panel app from your Android device or iPhone. The app is active in this next photo; the top half of the screen shows the 12 keys and you can configure the keytops on the screen with the same labels you might have put on the physical switch panel. And you can control the system anywhere within range of the Bluetooth connection. If you hold the phone horizontally, the switch panel will expand to fill most of the screen and the color selection will disappear.
Configuring the System
Once the system is installed and the accessories are connected, everything should be working – the accessories can be turned on or off with either the switch panel, the remote control or the smartphone app. I set everything up on the workbench to test the various switch configuration options - on/off, pulsed and momentary. In this video, switch 1 controls the light on the left in on/off mode, switch 5 controls the middle light in pulsed mode and switch 9 controls the light on the right in momentary mode.
The system can be configured either in the smartphone app or by using the keyboard.
The default backlight color is green but an alternate color can either be chosen from several preset colors at the bottom of the screen or by using the color wheel. It’s not hard to set the backlight color to match the color of the backlight of most vehicle dashboards.
This screen can also be used to operate the switches by pressing the button on the screen, and if the phone is rotated, the keyboard will expand to fill the screen as seen in the video above.
The Mode screen allows you to set the operating mode of the switch – there are three different ways the switch can operate:
- On/Off. One press will turn the accessory on and a second press will turn the accessory off. This is the default.
- Pulsed. One press will turn the accessory on, and it will pulse on and off. A second press will turn it off. This mode is useful for first responder emergency lights.
- Momentary. The accessory will be turned on as long as the switch is pressed. When the switch is released, the accessory will turn off.
Over 120 stick-on labels are provided for the switch panel and labels can be set for the smartphone app as well. The Icon screen is where these are configured, and one can choose photos or default icons and the text can be set.
There’s one more screen for grouping accessories together, this enables multiple accessories to be operated from a single switch. For example, if you’ve got three lights, on circuits 1, 2 and 3, you can group switched 1, 2 and 3 so pressing one will turn on all three. Unfortunately this option wasn’t working in the Android version of the app when I tested it. I mentioned this to Auxbeam and they demonstrated it on their iPhone and promised to fix and update the app for Android.
The many switch labels provided with the product:
If you need a label that's no provided, check out this link, in it you'll find out how to make your own labels: https://wranglertjforum.com/threads/auxbeam-6-gang-on-off-control-switch-panel-kit-review.53068/
Are 12 circuits too many?
I tried to make a list of a dozen accessories that one might control with this system, and I kept running out of "driving" accessories and adding "overland/camping" accessories to the list. These would be things like campsite lights, a water pump for a shower, etc. I like to run those accessories from my auxiliary battery so I never take the chance of running down my starting battery in the wild but the way this system (and all the Auxbeam systems and many from other companies) is designed, all of the power to operate the accessories comes from one battery, presumably the starting battery. What I'd like to do is to be able to power the "driving" accessories from the starting battery/main vehicle electrical system and power the "overland/camping" accessories from the auxiliary battery.
That turns out to be fairly simple with the addition of a relay board. In this next photo a 4-relay board is connected to the outputs 9-12 of the Auxbeam control box. Auxiliary battery power will go to one terminal of each relay, and an accessory will be powered by the output of the relays. The relays are rated at 10 amps, so almost all camping accessories can be powered that way - the most power hungry accessory I can think of is a fridge, and mine draws about 6 amps peak.
Relay boards are available with 1, 2, 4, 6 and 8 relays so it's possible to power many things from the auxiliary battery. You'll want a 12v relay board, and one that has a jumper to select to determine how the relays are activated - you want the jumper set to positive voltage rather than ground because the output of the Auxbeam control box will be positive voltage.
To finish up this option, the relay board should be mounted in a weather-resistant box, and the outputs of the relays should be fused to protect the relay board. The parts are readily available at places like eBay...
I've reviewed a number of other Auxbeam switch panels in the past few years, including their 6-gang, 8-gang, 8-gang with Bluetooth control, and the one the released just before this one, an 8-gang unit which includes dual switch panels.
Reviews I've done of some of the other panels:
Review: Auxbeam Bluetooth-Enabled 8-Circuit Switch Panel: https://wranglertjforum.com/threads/review-auxbeam-bluetooth-enabled-8-circuit-switch-panel.58281/
Auxbeam 6- and 8-gang Switch Panels: https://wranglertjforum.com/threads/auxbeam-6-and-8-gang-switch-panels.64350/
Auxbeam 6 Gang switch panel kit review: https://wranglertjforum.com/threads/auxbeam-6-gang-on-off-control-switch-panel-kit-review.53068/
I did a review on the dual panel unit but it isn't in this forum because it's mostly useful for Jeeps set up for camping/overlanding, which doesn't seem to be the main focus of the people here. It's here: https://forum.expeditionportal.com/threads/barn-door-for-jk-factory-hardtops.127687/post-3104431
