need some insight
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From: Detroit, MI
Here's a schematic for lights with a relay: https://i.imgur.com/2fXip.jpg
I didn't think about how you were going to connect your wires to the bottom of the relay, but did you happen to get a relay socket/holder for it? Or do you think you could get blade connectors on it? This is how I have a relay setup for a future project of mine: https://i.imgur.com/4FWje.jpg
As for getting power to your setup, I'd look for a "buss bar" like I have here on my 89 truck, left of the air cleaner on the firewall, right of the coolant jug:
Remove the cover, and all of the studs behind there are all powered directly by the battery. Great place to put extra wires on. If your truck doesn't have that, you can get something like this. I use them on my truck, and they're awesome. My truck uses side posts anyways, so it wasn't a big deal to swap the posts out.
As for getting a ground, I'd find a good spot, put one of the eyelet crimp on connectors you were talking about on the end of the wire(s), drill a small hole and use a screw to screw into the frame/body where ever you need. If you don't like that, just get another battery post like I mentioned above and wire it right back to the battery ground.
It might take lots of wire to get all this done, but you'll have a pretty nice light system when you're done
I didn't think about how you were going to connect your wires to the bottom of the relay, but did you happen to get a relay socket/holder for it? Or do you think you could get blade connectors on it? This is how I have a relay setup for a future project of mine: https://i.imgur.com/4FWje.jpg
As for getting power to your setup, I'd look for a "buss bar" like I have here on my 89 truck, left of the air cleaner on the firewall, right of the coolant jug:
Remove the cover, and all of the studs behind there are all powered directly by the battery. Great place to put extra wires on. If your truck doesn't have that, you can get something like this. I use them on my truck, and they're awesome. My truck uses side posts anyways, so it wasn't a big deal to swap the posts out.
As for getting a ground, I'd find a good spot, put one of the eyelet crimp on connectors you were talking about on the end of the wire(s), drill a small hole and use a screw to screw into the frame/body where ever you need. If you don't like that, just get another battery post like I mentioned above and wire it right back to the battery ground.
It might take lots of wire to get all this done, but you'll have a pretty nice light system when you're done
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From: Detroit, MI
Oh, sorry about that. I think I forgot to signify where the relay starts and ends ... but where you see 85 and 86, that is the "control side" of the relay, and there is a switch on the ground side of that circuit. That is the circuit that you want to put your switch in. So when you're running your wires, you want to put the switch in the ground circuit of the "control side" of the relay. So the wire coming off of pin 86, will be a wire with running to one side of an on/off switch, the other wire coming off the other side of the switch will run to ground; however you want to get a ground.
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