Kind of a trivial question about wiring. I have HID lights up front on my bumper and i am about to add a light bar on the roof. The HID lights are wired with the Slee harness. It is all kind of the normal set up with power from the driver side battery, relay near the battery, switched power coming off high beam and the only wires run into the cab are for the switch which is wired to a re-purposed OEM fog light switch. Works just fine, most of the wiring is near the battery.
Since that install i added a Blue Sea constant power block under the center consoled that is wired straight off the batt (fused of coarse). I am about to add a roof mounted light bar to the system. I am thinking the switch will go in a custom lower consoled area. Than makes me think if i pull power from my blue sea block and put the switch in the lower center consoled, run light bar wires out the back. The only wires under the hood would be the trigger 12V from the high beam. I could mount the relays in the cab near the blue Sea block.
Then i started thinking i would like the harnesses, switches, relay to all match. I could redo the HID/Slee harness with one like i have for the light bar. Pull all the power from the in cab blue sea, mount both relays in the cab, short wires to both matching switches in the lower center consoled.
Does that sound like a OK plan to run lighting power from the blue sea block or does it need to come straight from the batt? Is it better to have the relays in cab or does it not matter? Should the ground go straight to the batt or is a good bolt on the chassis fine?
I have a feeling this is kind of just all personal preference. But what do you guys thiink? Really it would just shift some wiring "stuff" from the underhood to inside cab.
Since that install i added a Blue Sea constant power block under the center consoled that is wired straight off the batt (fused of coarse). I am about to add a roof mounted light bar to the system. I am thinking the switch will go in a custom lower consoled area. Than makes me think if i pull power from my blue sea block and put the switch in the lower center consoled, run light bar wires out the back. The only wires under the hood would be the trigger 12V from the high beam. I could mount the relays in the cab near the blue Sea block.
Then i started thinking i would like the harnesses, switches, relay to all match. I could redo the HID/Slee harness with one like i have for the light bar. Pull all the power from the in cab blue sea, mount both relays in the cab, short wires to both matching switches in the lower center consoled.
Does that sound like a OK plan to run lighting power from the blue sea block or does it need to come straight from the batt? Is it better to have the relays in cab or does it not matter? Should the ground go straight to the batt or is a good bolt on the chassis fine?
I have a feeling this is kind of just all personal preference. But what do you guys thiink? Really it would just shift some wiring "stuff" from the underhood to inside cab.
