lights and wireing harness

[jeffseal]

i have the hella heavy duty wireing harness for a pair of rally 1000s can i wire another set off the same harness? thanks SEAL

 

[Alec]

No. You'll probably fry the wiring. I would only wire lights to the harnesses and relays that they come with. You mean wiring two sets of lights off the same wiring, right? You might be able to use the stuff with a different set of lights, but not both at the same time. I have used different switches than the provided ones, but I always make sure they have the right specs. Oh, and I always use the same or better guage wire when extending the kit's wire.

 

[mattadams]

Hey Jeff, are you talking about wiring up two sets to one switch but still using two relays, or using one relay, one switch, and splicing hte wires for the extra set?

 

[leebo]

I've kinda got two lights hooked into one switch. I've got my reverse lights and a rear back-up light hooked up to one switch where when somebody's tailgateing me I flip a switch and all come on. The lights aren't very powerful though so me worring about the watts on them wasn't needed. For you're needs(if I understood them correct, two lights one switch) it might be a problem. You'll end up doing some damage to several parts of the wiring and so forth. But it can be done.

 

[mattadams]

Seal, if you wanted two sets of lights to be controlled by one switch, it could be done but here is what you would have to do. Run both sets of wirings to the lights as you would if it was going to be two individual sets, that means proper grounding on both sets, two relays functioning independantly, etc. Then you'd have the two switches, take the two "switch" wires (the wires that go from the switch to the relay, should only be one wire per set) and splice them together. Essentially what this will do is make it so the switch when activated or deactived, will send the signal to two individual relays, which are still each still receiving full power and working independantly. Doing it in reverse (one wiring harness spliced out to feed four seperate wires with one relay, one ground, one swithc) would be a bad idea, and you would end up frying things.

 

[jeffseal]

my goal is not realy to be able to control all four lights with one switch, i just wanted to wire a second maybe a third pair of lights off the same harness so i didnt have to buy another harness and rewire every thing, the harness is the heavy duty hella harness it was like 60 , 80 bucks and i am only running 2 1000's off it i bougth the lights separate so they didnt come with a harness. i know you can run 2 4000's from the harness. what i wanted to know is could i slit the power wire going to the light and run an extra set from that or run them in a series. right now i have 2 1000's on the brush guard, i want to put 4 on the roof rack. i know it probably isnt a good idea to run 6 off the one harness but could i run 4 off another harness so i didnt have to run 2 harnesses for the lights on the roof rack. thanks jeff

 

[leebo]

You're asking for trouble. About the only way you can do it is about like Matt said. Running that many lights with that many watts in each you run the risk of burning the switch, wires, fuses,ext. I myself wouldn't do it. Where are you going that you need all those lights on at once???