Grounding lights

When you guys ground out your lights do you do it to the body/frame nearby or run a negative back to the battery?

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Depends. I don't have any thing I've added that goes directly to the battery. Everything connected to the battery is factory.

I have a bus bar for negative that connects to the factory ground in the sidewall. For everything in the front, I run negative to that. For things in the rear, I've been running it to the frame.

i am hesitant to scrape paint to make a good ground in the rear of the truck. i usually run it forward and ground up front somewhere. lights dont draw a lot of current so the long ground is fine

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i am hesitant to scrape paint to make a good ground in the rear of the truck. i usually run it forward and ground up front somewhere. lights dont draw a lot of current so the long ground is fine

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I was just curious as to what most on here do. I hate running any extra wires, so at work I ground to the nearest bolt.

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run 14ga speaker wire. it holds plenty of current for lights and since its a pair, you just do one run to the front. i always run extra wires whenever i work on a truck and they want something doen in the back. that way next time all im doing is running wires from the drivers kick panel.

I'm going to run a 0 guage to my cross box, and put all my relays and fuses in there, then run everything from there. I figure I will pull 70-80 amps

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I am running each pair of lights on there own color

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One more question. How do I make the power switched?

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Do I use a coil and run signal from the ignition

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relays and aux switches.

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relays and aux switches.

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I was saying my main power. [emoji23] I want to be able to turn the power off when the key goes off.

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get a 200 amp relay.

Lin

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