wantahertzdonut
Observer
I have a Chevy Express and I'm adding a significant amount of auxiliary lights to.
The front bumper has 3 LED bars (brand/wattage unknown, they came with the bumper from the fabricator) and 4 Hella 500's (55W/ea). I also have 4 KC LED Daylighters (39W/ea) that I'm going to put up on the roof. My first question is how I can get power to these things. I know I could simply run power off the battery but I'd really like to have a switched circuit so the lights don't just turn on at any time, I only want them operable when the engine is running.
In my high school days, I used to just jam a wire into a fuse in the fuse panel but I'm sure there is a better method. I did buy a positive distribution block but I still need a switched power source to run it, so I'd like to know what people in the know do in order to get positive power (and quite a bit of it).
My other question is where I could get a roof mounted bar to mount the Daylighters. I'm not interested in a roof rack, just a gutter mounted bar would be nice, but I can't seem to find anybody that sells the clamps for the gutters, and I'd prefer a low profile clamp so the bar isn't sticking way high up over the roof. If I can get those, I'd just use some aluminum box channel to mount across the roof for the lights. Anyone have a lead on something like this?
The front bumper has 3 LED bars (brand/wattage unknown, they came with the bumper from the fabricator) and 4 Hella 500's (55W/ea). I also have 4 KC LED Daylighters (39W/ea) that I'm going to put up on the roof. My first question is how I can get power to these things. I know I could simply run power off the battery but I'd really like to have a switched circuit so the lights don't just turn on at any time, I only want them operable when the engine is running.
In my high school days, I used to just jam a wire into a fuse in the fuse panel but I'm sure there is a better method. I did buy a positive distribution block but I still need a switched power source to run it, so I'd like to know what people in the know do in order to get positive power (and quite a bit of it).
My other question is where I could get a roof mounted bar to mount the Daylighters. I'm not interested in a roof rack, just a gutter mounted bar would be nice, but I can't seem to find anybody that sells the clamps for the gutters, and I'd prefer a low profile clamp so the bar isn't sticking way high up over the roof. If I can get those, I'd just use some aluminum box channel to mount across the roof for the lights. Anyone have a lead on something like this?