Bumper and Lights
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Bumper and Lights
Evening Folks,
I recently came into posession of a prerunner style bumper that I plan on adapting to my Dakota. Plan on taking the front off and attaching it much like Projektdirtfab did on his where the bumper reinforcement bar mounted to the frame. There will be skid plates added to it as well. Project is planned for the first week of March.
That being said, while that's getting put on, I plan on putting 2 6" LED light bars from Mictuning on the front for my new fog lights. Bars are 36w a piece. Will I be able to tie into the existing fog light wiring?
Lights: Wiring Harness:
I also plan on adding a 42 inch LED light bar, 240w, on the roof from the same company using their heavy duty wiring harness.
Bar: Harness:
As well as 2 4" led light pods, 18w each, on the rear for back up lights,
and 2 3.5w LED interior light bars inside the cap of the truck to light up the bed.
I'm also getting night rider style headlights with an HID upgrade in them, 55w each. Comes with relay and ballast already installed.
I'm considering running a separate wiring harness for each pair of lights or light bar and putting a separate switch in the truck for each one. Sometimes I won't want super bright back up lights so I'd rather have the option to control them all. If I do this, will this be too much load on the electrical? I plan on running a volt meter in the truck too to monitor everything but I'm wondering before I even start this if it will be too much load and I would need a secondary battery or something. Any thoughts?
Thanks!
Gunnar
I recently came into posession of a prerunner style bumper that I plan on adapting to my Dakota. Plan on taking the front off and attaching it much like Projektdirtfab did on his where the bumper reinforcement bar mounted to the frame. There will be skid plates added to it as well. Project is planned for the first week of March.
That being said, while that's getting put on, I plan on putting 2 6" LED light bars from Mictuning on the front for my new fog lights. Bars are 36w a piece. Will I be able to tie into the existing fog light wiring?
Lights: Wiring Harness:
I also plan on adding a 42 inch LED light bar, 240w, on the roof from the same company using their heavy duty wiring harness.
Bar: Harness:
As well as 2 4" led light pods, 18w each, on the rear for back up lights,
and 2 3.5w LED interior light bars inside the cap of the truck to light up the bed.
I'm also getting night rider style headlights with an HID upgrade in them, 55w each. Comes with relay and ballast already installed.
I'm considering running a separate wiring harness for each pair of lights or light bar and putting a separate switch in the truck for each one. Sometimes I won't want super bright back up lights so I'd rather have the option to control them all. If I do this, will this be too much load on the electrical? I plan on running a volt meter in the truck too to monitor everything but I'm wondering before I even start this if it will be too much load and I would need a secondary battery or something. Any thoughts?
Thanks!
Gunnar
Last edited by emberg89; Feb 11, 2018 at 09:18 PM.
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Probably won't need a second battery, but, a bigger one sure wouldn't hurt. Question becomes, what is your alternator rated at? The closer to max capacity you run it, the shorter its life will be. Might wanna find out what you got, and then decide if you need to upgrade that as well.
That said, LED lights are notoriously low draw..... so, may not even be an issue.
Wire the lights separately, (pairs?) with their own fuse. Otherwise, you will smoke the headlight switch in relatively short order.
That said, LED lights are notoriously low draw..... so, may not even be an issue.
Wire the lights separately, (pairs?) with their own fuse. Otherwise, you will smoke the headlight switch in relatively short order.
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Since it is a 2007, the pixies for the headlight do not go through the switch. The multifunction switch sends signal current only to some other controller to actually wrangle the pixies.
