wireing LED flood lights
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wireing LED flood lights
I picked up a couple of these LED lights http://www.ebay.com/itm/170962833761?ss ... 1431.l2649 where is the best place to wire them into ?
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Re: wireing LED flood lights
The accessory switch next to your left knee would be where I would wire it
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Re: wireing LED flood lights
Wrong! You can only use that circuit(#12 breaker) to power a relay as it is already close to capacity powering the brake/turn/hazard lights.
Take power to run lights from fat red wire #30 at ignition switch(or term #15 if you only want them to work with the ignition on).
Take power to run lights from fat red wire #30 at ignition switch(or term #15 if you only want them to work with the ignition on).
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O.K. that sounds good i want them to work when the battery switch is on , not the ignition so #30 wire what about for the ground wire where is best for that ?Jim LaGuardia wrote:Wrong! You can only use that circuit(#12 breaker) to power a relay as it is already close to capacity powering the brake/turn/hazard lights.
Take power to run lights from fat red wire #30 at ignition switch(or term #15 if you only want them to work with the ignition on).
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Re: wireing LED flood lights
if i add allot of these lights all around the truck will i run into issues overloading the alternator ?? :idea:
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norcal pinz wrote:if i add allot of these lights all around the truck will i run into issues overloading the alternator ?? :idea:
Please define “allot”. :idea:
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Grounds go directly to body. Anything under 20amps total draw should be fine, but higher capacity(over 650CCA) batteries will improve results.
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thanks for the help guys,,,, so that LED light draws 3.1 amps how many is too many ?? can i do 4 of those ??
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3.1A at 12V cut that in half on 24V. So four would be 4x1.5A=6Anorcal pinz wrote:thanks for the help guys,,,, so that LED light draws 3.1 amps how many is too many ?? can i do 4 of those ??
So based on what Jim said is OK you could run a dozen.
Assuming no other auxiliary power draws.
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