How To Wire A Roof Mounted Light Bar

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How to wire a roof mounted light bar.

Once it is in the snorkel head the cable will run down into the dirty side of the airbox and will require drilling through the side of the airbox to penetrate the wiring back into the engine bay. Make a connection between the light and the relay switch. The rest of the holes i had welded up. After installing my a pillar mounted police light i m fully aware of just how full the a pillars are.

I need to run wiring to the roof for my 40 led light bar 3 x led camping floods and a cigarette lighter accessory outlet for the roof top tent. For safety purpose wrap the soldering portion with electrical tape. I had a 30 inch across the hood. This was my midsize.

How to install a light bar. Of course using that type of wire gives you 3 wires so i paired up a couple of glands on the rear of the roof where the port installed roof rack went. In this episode of project night light i show you how to wire an led light bar properly using a relay. Also like you stated height becomes an issue when in the garage.

The joining can be done by soldering. Take the red wire of the light and join it with the red wire of the switch. We choose the nilight 52 300w spot and flood combination led light bar because it has both spot and flood lenses in one bar was affordable and had decent reviews on amazon. I m not a fan at all of the roof mounted light bars.

Although not commonly adopted it is possible to loop the wire from a roof light bar into the back of the snorkel head. Now comes the critical part. The switch will maintain the flow of current on the light bars. Also roof mounted bars can have a tendency to cause glare on full windshields.

By the way i like the location on the rear because it is easy to run the wire up to the roof by just dropping the rear section of the headliner. When having the roof rack installed we added a front 3 slat cross member so that we could mount a light bar it was a 65 addition.