wiring offload lights into power distribution box

[rkneeshaw]

I've been thinking about my wiring design for mounting some offroad lights and was thinking about where I would place the relay. Then I opened the power distribution box in my engine bay and found 2 free slots for relays. Seems I could make a real clean install if I wire in my relay for the offroad lights into this box.

It looks like there is already power coming straight from the battery into this box, as well as ground going out, so that makes things easy if I tap into those. Then I imagine I would only need to have 2 12g wires going out of the box to my offroad lights (one hot, one ground), and 1 18g or 20g from my switch going into the box that will simply trigger the relay. But I'm wondering if they sell the parts I need to create a "receiver" for the relay to plug into on the back side of that distribution box panel.

Has anyone done this? Any thoughts to the kind of connector bits I'll need to do it?

 

[That Baker Guy]

i did exactly what your thinking about doing, with my fog lights.

all you need is a relay and what ever wires you are using. and you only need one power wire going out, you can just ground the lights to the closest suitable ground.

all you need to use to create a receiver for the relay is wire connectors like this.click that will fit over the terminals of the relay. and what you do is take the bottom of the power distribution box find the power source, tap into it, and then find the location where you want to put the realy and slide the wire connector up in that spot from the bottom, there is a tab that it will slide into and keep it in there.

 

[rkneeshaw]

Well I got it to work. Some of the connectors would slide up into the slots and lock, but others would not. Tried flipping them over too. Ford probably has special connectors to use in there, but like I said I got it to work and have two relays wired into the distro box.

Thanks baker!

 

[That Baker Guy]

yeah man no problem glad to help.