Wiring dia lights for Skid Row Bumper

xjwrench

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I am in the process of wiring up my Skid Row Night Crawler Bumper. I drew up a wiring diagram from memory. I have done alot of electrical wiring on aircraft and such. Some wiring on cars and trucks, but i do not want this to be a hack job nor a fire hazard. The leds did not come with specs so im taking a stab in the dark about wiring them. If you can take a look at the diagram and let me know what you think be for i mess it up. Im putting it in 06 tj. The switch assembly is out of a 97 xj pretty much a stock xj fog light switch. Any info would be great thank you.
Cory
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A common failure point in XJ foglights is the switch. They way it was wired up (factory), too much current runs thru it generating a lot of heat. This causes the plastic to deform, then the switch no longer works. I pulled mine apart and rebent some plastic tabs so it functioned again.
On your diagram, are you going to run 25A thru the XJ switch?
 
Looking up the actual lights there 12 amp lights. The illuminated switch is 2.5 amps. and the relays are 30 amp.

I wont be running the 24 amps through the switch it will be through the relay. The switch that i have is out of my xj and it still works. I checked it before i pulled it out. That xj is about donefer so its becomeing a donor.

The bumper and lights did not come with any wire so im gonna be using 12 gage for the actual high amp side and 14-16 for the low amp side.

as to the relay wiring the only reason i thought to wire them that way was that when switching power with a bosch type relay, if the situation allows, apply power to terminal 87 and use terminal 30 for the output terminal.

REASON:
If the relay is wired so that terminal 30 is the input and terminal 87 is the output, the circuit will work exactly as the previous example but when the relay is switched off, terminal 87a will become energized. but this applies for a 5 pin relay and i am using the 4 pin relays. So i guess either way would work.
 
So i just tried out the switch and how i thought it was supposed to be wired up and its not it. I guess time to dig up some actual wiring diagrams unless some one here knows what they are for pins 1-4 on the switch
 
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This is for a TJ I would assume its the same.


Pin 1 = dimmer control (variable + voltage from dashboard dimmer)

Pin 2 = + 12 volt switched output (for your fog lamp control relay)

Pin 3 = +12 volts in (from battery or other +12V source)

Pin 4 = ground
 
xjwrench said:
Looking up the actual lights there 12 amp lights. The illuminated switch is 2.5 amps. and the relays are 30 amp.
I wont be running the 24 amps through the switch it will be through the relay. The switch that i have is out of my xj and it still works. I checked it before i pulled it out. That xj is about donefer so its becomeing a donor.
The bumper and lights did not come with any wire so im gonna be using 12 gage for the actual high amp side and 14-16 for the low amp side.
as to the relay wiring the only reason i thought to wire them that way was that when switching power with a bosch type relay, if the situation allows, apply power to terminal 87 and use terminal 30 for the output terminal.
REASON:
If the relay is wired so that terminal 30 is the input and terminal 87 is the output, the circuit will work exactly as the previous example but when the relay is switched off, terminal 87a will become energized. but this applies for a 5 pin relay and i am using the 4 pin relays. So i guess either way would work.
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I believed you asked for help with the wiring diagram,

I don't see any 5 pin relays on the diagram. So I assumed they were 4 pin and gave advice accordingly.

And you have 85 and 86 backwards

So right now your switching a hot to the relay ground.
 
Thank you for the help the tj switches wires is the same. Burrellsjeep thank you for your help you are right. So im gonna start putting it all together and see how it does. Thank every one.
 
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