Rack Mounted Switch?

[73guppie96]

I am going to be mounting some work lights onto the rear of my 80's bajarack. I want to have them wired hot with switches (toggle or ? ) mounted on the rack so they can be easily turned on and off when camping. I am looking for ideas on mounting and also what switches others have used in this type of setup? Using a simple toggle from the parts store seems not appropriate and will be susceptible to corrosion.

basically looking for a switch that is sealed from the weather that can be mounted flat to a surface or a cross round bar with 2 small screws. Basically a boxed switch with attachment tabs?

Thanks!

Noah

 

[dady551]

yes...Using a simple toggle from the parts store seems also to me not good also the attachments depends upon on which type of mounting are you going to use? can you specify?

 

[Arya Ebrahimi]

Are you opposed to using lights that have switches built in? It would require flipping a switch for each light, but would alleviate any problems with the switch being exposed. There is a pretty good variety of 12V tractor/flood/work lights that have the switches built into the housing. A quick ebay search for "switched 12V work light" turned up a good number of solutions.

 

[theside00]

What about mounting the switch at the rear of the cargo area inside? After time any switch is going to get beat up outside.

 

[Mike S]

I would mount a plate with a marine toggle switch - booted on the front and sealed on the back. Shrink wrap connectors with adhesive shrink wrap.

 

[JIMBO]

:sombrero: I have rear lights set up in my sPOD (internal) system and use lanterns/external DC lights for camping-

Never needed or wanted the vehicle rear lights for camping--a lotta times on trail and/w trailer setup though !

:costumed-smiley-007:wings: JIMBO

 

[73guppie96]

thx for the responses guys, figured out a neat idea, going to use some led work lights in conjunction with some big harbar freight magnets and wire it to a dc plug, instant magnetic work light! should work exactly the way I want it to.

 

[Arya Ebrahimi]

thx for the responses guys, figured out a neat idea, going to use some led work lights in conjunction with some big harbar freight magnets and wire it to a dc plug, instant magnetic work light! should work exactly the way I want it to.

Good idea. I made up a similar light(halogen instead of LED) a few years ago and it works great. With the LED you can get away with using the cigarette plug which will have significantly less draw than a halogen light. I ended up putting little battery clamps on mine because it was drawing too many amps for a cigarette plug.