Holy scope creep. My wife got me this 12" light bar for Christmas to mount on my fairlead and I'm just now getting to install it.
I mentioned a couple of posts up how I wasn't wild about little dinky wires and inline fuses hanging off my battery terminals, so this light bar has turned into what's possibly the biggest case of scope creep I've ever had. A normal, rational person might have tucked the wires away and tied them into the PDC, finishing the install in under an hour but not me...I bought a 6 circuit fuse and relay box to run it into, cut apart the harness from lights I installed 3 years ago, and started building a one piece off-road lighting harness with fabric loom and heat shrink.
Just a sample, this is where the ground wire splits off to the firewall ground and the main feed for the fuse box goes to the PDC.
I stopped counting the hours I have in this project but I reckon I have at least a couple more.
I mounted the box on the ABS tray.
Relay 1- triggered by parking light circuit, output feeds the 12V+ supply to both switches
Relay 2- triggered by switch 1, KC spots on A pillar
Relay 3 - triggered by (3 position) switch 2 down, main circuit on light bar
Relay 5 - triggered by switch 2 up, DRL circuit on light bar
This way, none of the lights will come on without the headlight switch being at least to the parking light position, making it impossible for me to leave lights on without ignoring the headlight reminder chime.
Relays 4 and 6 are spares. I may never use them but but I'll leave their wires handy so I can use them without having to cut the heat shrink..same with the NC output wires from relays 2, 3, and 5 which I haven't identified a use for.
I mentioned a couple of posts up how I wasn't wild about little dinky wires and inline fuses hanging off my battery terminals, so this light bar has turned into what's possibly the biggest case of scope creep I've ever had. A normal, rational person might have tucked the wires away and tied them into the PDC, finishing the install in under an hour but not me...I bought a 6 circuit fuse and relay box to run it into, cut apart the harness from lights I installed 3 years ago, and started building a one piece off-road lighting harness with fabric loom and heat shrink.

Just a sample, this is where the ground wire splits off to the firewall ground and the main feed for the fuse box goes to the PDC.
I stopped counting the hours I have in this project but I reckon I have at least a couple more.
I mounted the box on the ABS tray.
Relay 1- triggered by parking light circuit, output feeds the 12V+ supply to both switches
Relay 2- triggered by switch 1, KC spots on A pillar
Relay 3 - triggered by (3 position) switch 2 down, main circuit on light bar
Relay 5 - triggered by switch 2 up, DRL circuit on light bar
This way, none of the lights will come on without the headlight switch being at least to the parking light position, making it impossible for me to leave lights on without ignoring the headlight reminder chime.
Relays 4 and 6 are spares. I may never use them but but I'll leave their wires handy so I can use them without having to cut the heat shrink..same with the NC output wires from relays 2, 3, and 5 which I haven't identified a use for.