BIGdaddy
Expedition Leader
OK, so I installed my blue sea 6 position fuse block and a set of hella lights tonight. lights are NICE! I think it'll add a great deal of visibility to my early morning commute and for finding a campsite at night.
Pretty involved installation, but not too difficult at all. I am left with a question, though:
1. You are told to draw power off the battery (1 blueSea fuse block position) to go into the relay thats included in the hella kit.
2. You are then told to power the switch in the cab via one of those blue wire splice thingy's to put power to the switch to fire the relay...right? What I did was simply run that power source to another position on the blue sea block for now...is this alright?
The 2 possible problems I see are:
-I could possibly leave the lights on when I park the car and drain the battery since they're always hot.
-I'm using two of my fused positions. I'm thinking that if I splice into the cig lighter or running lights, the theory is that I can piggyback on one of the factory fused circuits, since the amp draw to fire the relay should be very small. (If it's not a big deal though, I don't mind having only four positions left...)
If I splice into something that is switched with the key like the cigarette lighter, I would have had to dig pretty deep into the dash tonight, but it might be worth the effort to resolve the two issues I identified...
...thoughts?
I'll admit, I'm not very "electrically" savvy, so I thought I should mention it to the 12v guru's.
Pretty involved installation, but not too difficult at all. I am left with a question, though:
1. You are told to draw power off the battery (1 blueSea fuse block position) to go into the relay thats included in the hella kit.
2. You are then told to power the switch in the cab via one of those blue wire splice thingy's to put power to the switch to fire the relay...right? What I did was simply run that power source to another position on the blue sea block for now...is this alright?
The 2 possible problems I see are:
-I could possibly leave the lights on when I park the car and drain the battery since they're always hot.
-I'm using two of my fused positions. I'm thinking that if I splice into the cig lighter or running lights, the theory is that I can piggyback on one of the factory fused circuits, since the amp draw to fire the relay should be very small. (If it's not a big deal though, I don't mind having only four positions left...)
If I splice into something that is switched with the key like the cigarette lighter, I would have had to dig pretty deep into the dash tonight, but it might be worth the effort to resolve the two issues I identified...
...thoughts?
I'll admit, I'm not very "electrically" savvy, so I thought I should mention it to the 12v guru's.