How To Wire Roof Light Bar

If your led light bar came with a wiring harness and it includes a relay use it end of story.

How to wire roof light bar. Today we install the scanstrut connector. When directly switching a light bar use a switch with a minimum 10a rating. While mounting a light bar on the bullbar is often easiest the roof mounted option is far more popular freeing up space on the bullbar for traditional driving lights. Some roof rack manufacturers may have optional light bar mounting brackets like this rola titan roof tray which makes installation as simple as spinning a few spanners.

Connect the power wire of the new light to the power wire of the old light with solder and heat shrink tubing or perma seal butt connectors. If you have no wiring harness use a relay if your light bar draws over 5 amps. Once it is in the snorkel head the cable will run down into the dirty side of the airbox and will require drilling through the side of the airbox to penetrate the wiring back into the engine bay. Installing a led curved light bar on your overhead rack requires a waterproof connector of some sort.

Whilst bright whopping domin8r led lightbars are ideal for long range and wide spread led light you may be chasing a simpler led worklight setup you can install an illuminator 6 led lightbar easily mounted to your steel roof rack you can aim this awesome light to the rear of your vehicle and if you tend to hit the tracks late at night. Although not commonly adopted it is possible to loop the wire from a roof light bar into the back of the snorkel head. They know what works and what doesn t and can definitely get you set up with not only a light bar bracket but also the right mounting and wiring components to. The diagram below shows the bottom side of a standard 12vdc automotive relay.

Vision x xpi led light bar roof mount install completed.