Off-road Lighting Wiring Question

[SkyGuy41]

I just finished up wiring some rigid dually's. No problems there, wired it directly to my battery per Rigid Industries instructions and they work great. I was wondering if I could wire up another rigid industries light bar directly to my battery (10" sr2 led bar, drive pattern). Or am I gonna run into problems not using a relay. I read a lot about using relays for multiple lights to be able to turn them on with one switch etc. But I'm not to electrically savvy when it comes to this stuff. So will the dually's and the led bar cause an issue being wired to the same battery with the wiring provided by Rigid and using the separate switches?

 

[Davy180]

I just finished up wiring some rigid dually's. No problems there, wired it directly to my battery per Rigid Industries instructions and they work great. I was wondering if I could wire up another rigid industries light bar directly to my battery (10" sr2 led bar, drive pattern). Or am I gonna run into problems not using a relay. I read a lot about using relays for multiple lights to be able to turn them on with one switch etc. But I'm not to electrically savvy when it comes to this stuff. So will the dually's and the led bar cause an issue being wired to the same battery with the wiring provided by Rigid and using the separate switches?

If you are adding a light bar you should wire in relay. The Dually lights are low amperage so you can just wire them to the switch. I had a set of Dually ditch lights installed and just ran the wiring straight to the switch. I just added a light bar last weekend and I ended up buying a wiring kit with relay and fuse and ran that to the switch with the output going to both the ditch lights and light bar.

Hope that helps with your question.

 

[wnelax04sr5]

i used a relay for a pair of dually sized lights even though it may not have needed it. i bought a wiring kit from superbrightleds.com and it made it so easy. highly recommend

 

[amalik]

You are safest with relays and fuses even if not needed. Better safe than sorry.