[vet 180]

Looking to get a light bar soon so I can do more night time dune running. Thinking a 10w single row Chinese item.

The car is a 2015 Jimny. Thinking of sticking it in the bumper and wiring directly to the stock off-road lights. Should I set it up on its own separate relay and switch or will it be fine? I do not drive with the off-road lights on normally and would only ever switch on the same time as the light bar.

[Gwagensteve]

Own switch and relay.

[frak]

Own switch and relay is the best.

If you want to muck around some more you could measure the current draw of the existing circuit and calc/measure the lightbar draw to see if the circuit would support it. It means you would lose both sets of lights at once when yhe fuse blows.

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[Jezza86]

10 watts. why not run it off 3 AAA batteries?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/CREE-XM-L-T6-LE ... 1925065962

[vet 180]

Cheers guys. Sounds like I am doing this one properly. Will try and get a genuine off-road light switch and install for the light bar. The other advantage is if I am following someone at night I can run just the off-road lights

[Kor3y101]

All you need is any toggle switch, and a simple 30amp relay.
No special switches required. If your unsure of how to wire it, just take a look in the good tech section. I believe Royce and a few others have some good write ups about using relays.

Glad you chose the right way to do it

[vet 180]

Kor3y101 wrote:

All you need is any toggle switch, and a simple 30amp relay.
No special switches required. If your unsure of how to wire it, just take a look in the good tech section. I believe Royce and a few others have some good write ups about using relays.

Glad you chose the right way to do it

The oem switch is more of an asthetics thing as I should be able to get at a good price. Cheers for the info