Santa Claus is bringing me a 30" rigid industries light bar for Christmas. I was wondering if I can just tie it into my factory fog light switch or should I buy its own harness and relay?

Thanks

 

i wired mine right off the battery to a 15A inline fuse, then through the firewall to a switch. ran another wire off the switch back out the firewall to the led bar. found a random bolt in the frame and just grounded the bar there.

that 30" rigid draws ~12-13.5 amps depending which u are getting. i wouldn't use the factory switch..

 

I wouldn't run that much amperage off the fog light wiring. You should use the fog wiring to trigger a relay that feeds the bar directly from the battery.

Although since it's a long range light bar, why not trigger from the high beam circuit? It's a LOT easier to drive on roads since the fog button is a lot less intuitive to use than the high beam stalk. That's how I have mine set up.

 

I love how that light bar looks man !!! Even looks killer in the daytime.

 

I have the 6 hi mod with ddm 35 watt 8000k hids. So I never use the fog lights even on low beam because its bright as **** already! I'm just gonna do as ls3ssrs stated and use separate wiring... Ill prob just by the relay harness on eBay since its already wired up. Thanks for the response appreciate it!

 

Suburbazine your light bar does look good! What brand and length?

 

30" Off Road LED Light Bar with Spot/Flood Combo Beam - 90W | Off Road Light Bars | Work & Off-Road Lights | Super Bright LEDs

It's a 30" bar with 18 Cree XP-G2 LEDs driven at 4.7W through 8 degree optics. Visible output is a bit less than the Rigid which uses wider 10 degree optics with 60 Cree XP-E(2?) LEDs driven at 2.75W.

The only reason I picked my bar over a Rigid is that I couldn't justify the price/performance ratio. Pay 5x as much for 2x the output. Although after you turn it on that price tag will be forgotten in awe.

 

Just put a 50" E-series on, it's all smiles when you key it up on the road lol, where to put another bumper on it and add a 30" E-series and a couple of Q-series, should look like daylight coming down the road