Broke another toggle switch for the OnX6 light bar, that's 2 inside of a fortnight! I figure this is caused by:
1) #@!$%!@ Cold, days of highs 10-15deg below freezing
2) Construction, Housing/mount is metal, Flat toggle (which keeps breaking) is plastic and hollow
3) Not paying enough attention getting into the truck with cold weather gear and clodhoppers so my knee bumps the switch sideways instead of up/down
In the past bumping the switch usually just accidentally turns on the light bar. Because it's so $#@!%$# cold, the plastic is brittle and won't take any force that isn't in a direction the switch can move. I did call Baja Designs again and explained what's happening. Their agent seemed shocked our high here today was a measly 20F, lucky he's in SoCal. He offered a different metal toggle switch, but I'm afraid I'd still end up bumping that and breaking the housing or the mount. It took about 3 hours of sorting through switches online to find one I didn't think would break (different design), and would be aesthetically pleasing as well as match the momentary switch for dust/strobe modes. I considered an OEM looking switch, but didn't want to replace the dust/strobe mode one as well. CH4x4 & AOB switches aren't exactly cheap, and not having them keeps me from trying to short out the dash illumination circuit! Boy do I miss having a local Radio Shack to just run to and grab something that would work!