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Lights, power ports, and more!
I have already gone over a lot of this in the thread but here comes where we are at now and where it is all going. Something to keep in mind here and for this build, I treat every build different and don't do cookie cutter type stuff, so. The owner is a professional photographer, he goes out into the bush for days on end to do his work. He will use this truck for this, along with an HDJ81 I am building for him. As such, the build(s) keep his specific uses in mind as I work through them and work with him on how to set up the trucks. So here we go.....
Power ports, I am using Blue Sea throughout the build. All USB ports are a double port fast charge, all cig lighter ports are a twist and lock style. I did consider running a fuse panel to the back of the truck, at this time I am not doing that. Although right now I am working out LED lights and may opt for an aux fuse panel before this is all said and done.
We want power ports to be hot 24/7, I could not find a hot 24/7 circuit in this truck besides at the clock. Odd as I suspected the cig lighter to be 24/7 but it was not. Better anyways to not use an existing circuit but I had hoped to pull from the factory fuse block, there just is not a hot 24/7 circuit in the fuse panel on this truck to use. As such, I decided to run two hot wires from the battery rather than tapping into an existing circuit as obviously keyed hot won't work for what we want and the clock hot 24/7 is not going to work either. For the USB ports I ran a 14g wire rated at 17amps, for the cig lighter ports I ran a 10g wire rated at 22amps. The USB ports will have a 15amp inline fuse and the cig ports will have a 20amp, both at the battery. Grounds will be at location of power ports. This is way more than enough for the amp draw the ports will see, even with the Engel.
A square style USB port is mounted next to the heater controls, a;ready pictured. One round style mounted in the custom made console. One round style mounted on either side of the Front Runner drawers, the drawers come with power panels with knocks outs ready to go, sweet I say!
Cig lighter twist and lock ports; two in the console, one next to the USB port and one at the back of the console, rear seat/floor location. The owner may toss his Engel fridge behind the front seats, so port at the back of console for this. I honestly think when his Engel is in the truck he will just mount it on top of the drawers and plug into the back power ports. No fridge slide or drop down discussed or planned at this time for the fridge. I think he uses his fridge more like a cooler, moving it around but just needing a power source to run it. I am also installing a new OEM cig lighter in the stock location for power uses as well.
I picked up some National Luna cig lighter plug LEDs on clips for various camp light duties. These are yellow lens to keep bugs down, plug into any cig lighter port and have 15ft of cord so will reach any where needed around the truck. I have used these before and they work well and are nice.
For LED lights on the truck, as mentioned I went with Trucklight 7" LED's for headlights. I will be installing LEDs at the top back of the roof rack that come on with the reverse light switch. These will also likely be on a switch at the drawers for camp lights.
A custom front bumper is back on the build plan. It will incorporate some LED's, out boarded in the bumper. I am pushing for fog style that also double as driving lights. These come on with either running lights or low beams, on a separate switch or not.
Next up is an LED light bar, I am going for a small bar. No bro-brah 40" crap on this truck! I am shooting for 10"ish to be mounted front cent of the roof rack, wired up to come on with high beams or just on a switch or both.
Next I am suggesting we do some "deer/game" lights. I lived in Wyoming for 22yrs, I built and drove Cruisers there. In the Rocky Mountains and high plains we got game to worry about at night. Owner of this truck lives in Montana, he encounters game regularly at night driving his trucks. So, some LED spot lights outside front corner of roof rack is what I am suggesting. These cover 0-90* field of vision in their light pattern so that you decrease the chances of not spotting game from the side at night. Game lights would be on a dash mounted switch only.
All LED's I am using are Ridged Industries.
Cheers
I have already gone over a lot of this in the thread but here comes where we are at now and where it is all going. Something to keep in mind here and for this build, I treat every build different and don't do cookie cutter type stuff, so. The owner is a professional photographer, he goes out into the bush for days on end to do his work. He will use this truck for this, along with an HDJ81 I am building for him. As such, the build(s) keep his specific uses in mind as I work through them and work with him on how to set up the trucks. So here we go.....
Power ports, I am using Blue Sea throughout the build. All USB ports are a double port fast charge, all cig lighter ports are a twist and lock style. I did consider running a fuse panel to the back of the truck, at this time I am not doing that. Although right now I am working out LED lights and may opt for an aux fuse panel before this is all said and done.
We want power ports to be hot 24/7, I could not find a hot 24/7 circuit in this truck besides at the clock. Odd as I suspected the cig lighter to be 24/7 but it was not. Better anyways to not use an existing circuit but I had hoped to pull from the factory fuse block, there just is not a hot 24/7 circuit in the fuse panel on this truck to use. As such, I decided to run two hot wires from the battery rather than tapping into an existing circuit as obviously keyed hot won't work for what we want and the clock hot 24/7 is not going to work either. For the USB ports I ran a 14g wire rated at 17amps, for the cig lighter ports I ran a 10g wire rated at 22amps. The USB ports will have a 15amp inline fuse and the cig ports will have a 20amp, both at the battery. Grounds will be at location of power ports. This is way more than enough for the amp draw the ports will see, even with the Engel.
A square style USB port is mounted next to the heater controls, a;ready pictured. One round style mounted in the custom made console. One round style mounted on either side of the Front Runner drawers, the drawers come with power panels with knocks outs ready to go, sweet I say!
Cig lighter twist and lock ports; two in the console, one next to the USB port and one at the back of the console, rear seat/floor location. The owner may toss his Engel fridge behind the front seats, so port at the back of console for this. I honestly think when his Engel is in the truck he will just mount it on top of the drawers and plug into the back power ports. No fridge slide or drop down discussed or planned at this time for the fridge. I think he uses his fridge more like a cooler, moving it around but just needing a power source to run it. I am also installing a new OEM cig lighter in the stock location for power uses as well.
I picked up some National Luna cig lighter plug LEDs on clips for various camp light duties. These are yellow lens to keep bugs down, plug into any cig lighter port and have 15ft of cord so will reach any where needed around the truck. I have used these before and they work well and are nice.
For LED lights on the truck, as mentioned I went with Trucklight 7" LED's for headlights. I will be installing LEDs at the top back of the roof rack that come on with the reverse light switch. These will also likely be on a switch at the drawers for camp lights.
A custom front bumper is back on the build plan. It will incorporate some LED's, out boarded in the bumper. I am pushing for fog style that also double as driving lights. These come on with either running lights or low beams, on a separate switch or not.
Next up is an LED light bar, I am going for a small bar. No bro-brah 40" crap on this truck! I am shooting for 10"ish to be mounted front cent of the roof rack, wired up to come on with high beams or just on a switch or both.
Next I am suggesting we do some "deer/game" lights. I lived in Wyoming for 22yrs, I built and drove Cruisers there. In the Rocky Mountains and high plains we got game to worry about at night. Owner of this truck lives in Montana, he encounters game regularly at night driving his trucks. So, some LED spot lights outside front corner of roof rack is what I am suggesting. These cover 0-90* field of vision in their light pattern so that you decrease the chances of not spotting game from the side at night. Game lights would be on a dash mounted switch only.
All LED's I am using are Ridged Industries.
Cheers
