LED Light Bar Spliced with Fog Lights

Whats up guys, have any of you quick spliced a LED bar with your existing fog light circuit? Im not sure how much power I would draw.

 

How big is the lightbar? I did it with my ditch light pods and it's fine. You get too big and it'll draw too much power and your wires will catch fire

 

I'm curious about this as well, just ordered my cali raised 21.5 bar last night

 

Thinking about a 15-20", wanting to install it on the bottom lip space under the grille half. Nothing too big.

 

You'll be fine led draws like no power so you'll be ok it's super easy to do

 

Roger that! Awesome thanks!

 

No worries bro good luck man!

 

A 20" bar draws somewhere around 10 amps. I'd check what size fuse is in that circuit first and add the total wattage for fogs and bar. Add 20% to that to be safe.

 

Well if I did this it would be after I get my new led fogs not ome.I'm honestly out of spots to put more switches.all my factory options have the one panel completely full

 

Just use a relay man... Better to be safe than sorry. It only takes a little more effort to wire in a relay. Adding an extra power source to an existing circuit is risky. For one that circuit is rated to handle so much power from the source it was designed for. Adding a bigger fuse is definitely not a good idea either. Doing that may potentially burn the wires up. Maybe not at first, but over time the increased demand on those wires/circuit may make them degrade and then cause issues down the road.

Use a relay. With an inline fuse rated for your bar. And use the fog light wire splice as the activation circuit.

 

I'll probably just run the wiring they send with my bar to be safe and find a place to mount the switch

 

Don't wanna wire it to your fogs? So it comes on with the fogs? Or would you be using them separately?