Not sure if i posted this in the right sub forum or not, but I couldn't find a better one. Anyway..
This weekend I am looking to mount four KC 130 watt daylighters (on two switches w/ 2 30A relays). I'm also mounting two LED's (rigid dually knock-offs) on the back. These are going on my new roof rack. I'm no electrical engineer, but I have a pretty good knowledge of how to hook this up. I kinda just want to maybe see if any of you have any suggestions, or ideas that I haven't thought of(or things I may be doing wrong). This is what I am thinking of doing:
Running a 8AWG wire from the battery , up along side of the windsheild, and tuck the wire into the seam as much as I can, probably put that black loom stuff on it and tie it down. Then, the power wire will go to a 3 way distribution, then to 3 different relays in some sort of water tight box mounted to the roof rack. 1 3o amp for each of the sets of KCs, and maybe a 20 amp for the LEDS. From there, I'm thinking of running the switch wires from the relays through my XM antenna. A question i'm having, is can I ground my relays. lights, and ground wires for the switches all to the same spot on top of the roof? I'm thinking where the feet screw into the roof somewhere. I'm trying to keep it to where, one power wire comes from the battery to the roof, and 3 switch power wires are the only ones that go into the cab. Ultimately, I'm trying to keep all of the high current wires out of the cab, and run as little wiring as possible from the roof to the rest of the truck.
Anybody have any better suggestions, or do you see anything that stands out as a bad idea?
Oh yeah, and this is on a Frontier, so some of the usual wire running techniques for Xterras probably wont work in my case.
This weekend I am looking to mount four KC 130 watt daylighters (on two switches w/ 2 30A relays). I'm also mounting two LED's (rigid dually knock-offs) on the back. These are going on my new roof rack. I'm no electrical engineer, but I have a pretty good knowledge of how to hook this up. I kinda just want to maybe see if any of you have any suggestions, or ideas that I haven't thought of(or things I may be doing wrong). This is what I am thinking of doing:
Running a 8AWG wire from the battery , up along side of the windsheild, and tuck the wire into the seam as much as I can, probably put that black loom stuff on it and tie it down. Then, the power wire will go to a 3 way distribution, then to 3 different relays in some sort of water tight box mounted to the roof rack. 1 3o amp for each of the sets of KCs, and maybe a 20 amp for the LEDS. From there, I'm thinking of running the switch wires from the relays through my XM antenna. A question i'm having, is can I ground my relays. lights, and ground wires for the switches all to the same spot on top of the roof? I'm thinking where the feet screw into the roof somewhere. I'm trying to keep it to where, one power wire comes from the battery to the roof, and 3 switch power wires are the only ones that go into the cab. Ultimately, I'm trying to keep all of the high current wires out of the cab, and run as little wiring as possible from the roof to the rest of the truck.
Anybody have any better suggestions, or do you see anything that stands out as a bad idea?
Oh yeah, and this is on a Frontier, so some of the usual wire running techniques for Xterras probably wont work in my case.