DanMan2k06
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Damascus, MD
Well I did, and can't seem to find what I'm looking for at all. This seems to be more the area of 5-90, fitch, splitz, ghostdakota, and any other lighting/electrical freaks. What I'm thinking of doing is essentially making a roof-mounted PDC. I'm in the works of putting together a roof rack which will be home to 8 fogs lights. Yup, 8. (6) 100 watt driving fogs in the front, and 2 wide-beam fogs in the rear. The front 6 will all have 100watt bulbs, the rear 2 will remain standard 55. My question is, how the heck do you wire something like that? I have all the relays and switches in place, but I'm going to need one heck of a fat wire going up to the roof. I was thinking of running some 4, maybe 2 awg wire up there into a radioshack/fitchbox special kind of deal, and then splitting it into it's necessary 12 or 10 awg to go to the individual lights. I am kind of scared of drilling a 1/2" hole in my roof though, and that thick of wire won't exactly go up the side of the windscreen either. Maybe some sort of cable gland? How has everyone on here done it? I know the (4) 55 watt hellas is pretty standard, but my setup seems to require much more power.
This is what I DON'T want...
I'm almost tempted to make some kind of power-transfer device. Like a big copper post, pressed tightly and sealed inside a tube, which is then slid inside some sort of square plate, which is bolted to the roof. The all the terminations end with a ring terminal. No grommets, no wiring that could get pinched or sliced. Kind of like a cable gland, but slide a copper bolt in there instead of the wiring poking all the way through.
This is what I DON'T want...
I'm almost tempted to make some kind of power-transfer device. Like a big copper post, pressed tightly and sealed inside a tube, which is then slid inside some sort of square plate, which is bolted to the roof. The all the terminations end with a ring terminal. No grommets, no wiring that could get pinched or sliced. Kind of like a cable gland, but slide a copper bolt in there instead of the wiring poking all the way through.
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