Grounding On Roof w/ a Rack

[baff2004]

I have 4 KC Day Lighters and a surco roof rack. What do you ground the lights on the roof to? There really is no good ground up there, is there? The lights come with a ring connector so that they will attach to the light mount and whatever you mount them to. In my case it's the rack. But is the rack a good ground?

 

[Blee1099]

Originally posted by baff2004
I have 4 KC Day Lighters and a surco roof rack. What do you ground the lights on the roof to? There really is no good ground up there, is there? The lights come with a ring connector so that they will attach to the light mount and whatever you mount them to. In my case it's the rack. But is the rack a good ground?

I'm not sure if the rack would work as a ground.

 

[jimbo74]

i backed out a screw holding my rack to the roof in the rails, but i dont know itf that is going to cut it for lights... it may be too inadequate.... you might have to just run dedicated power wires......

 

[GaSouthern1]

You could always run the ground with the power wire and just ground it on the negitave post on the battery.

 

[94ZebraRanger]

I just ran my ground with my power and grounded inside the drivers side panel.

Tim

 

[jr91X]

I just ran the ground to the closest bolt on the luggage rack. I checked the impedence and only a few of the bolt holes have a good ground. If you are going to do this, check the impedence and use a solid ground