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<blockquote data-quote="Ryan C" data-source="post: 1876526" data-attributes="member: 37209"><p>For the Onx6+ I posted elsewhere about this, describing how I mounted and what I cut. <a href="https://www.fordraptorforum.com/threads/onx6-30-arc-on-front-bumper.95665/" target="_blank">https://www.fordraptorforum.com/threads/onx6-30-arc-on-front-bumper.95665/</a></p><p></p><p>moving to the wiring, I ran 12ga wire from connection on the light, up to the cab side of the battery tray, where I connected to a four pin 40amp relay. A picture showing the routing of the battery up to the battery area is here (its the flexible loom attached to the taped large wire pack, and the metal bar that goes in the flexible loom)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]392950[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p></p><p>For those who don't know (like me before this project), a relay is an electric switch that is turned on by applying current. A good explanation is here: [MEDIA=youtube]HmiqUZ0sRt4[/MEDIA]</p><p>More on this below.</p><p></p><p>I wrapped the positive and ground wires from the light in flexible split wire loom all the way to the battery, and exited the ground wire from the light part of the way through the loom at the ground location behind the battery (that ground wire is shown in this pic, closest to the camera looping up from the bottom)[ATTACH=full]392945[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>The relay itself has four connections. There is a line from the battery, that I connected with an inline 30A fuse.</p><p></p><p>Battery connection is:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]392947[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>here's a pic showing the inline fuse and connection to the relay, which is bolted to the battery tray. Conveniently there is a hole already drilled into the battery tray, so I used a 1/4" rivnut in that hole to create a blind nut for the stainless bolt.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]392949[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>In the above pic you can also see how I ran the wire harness coming from the XL80s, secured it to the wires going into the relay, and then looped it down and around the battery tray to the weather pack connect around the side of that tray where the ground and up fitter wires are.</p><p></p><p>As for the relay, I heat shrink wrapped all the connectors and then taped it all up. </p><p></p><p>The relay works like this. The power comes from the battery, and is interrupted by the relay. The upfitter switch power wire comes into the relay on one end, and goes to ground on the other (that ground wire is run through the flexible wire loom again back to the ground location on the side of the battery tray - so grounds from the xl80s, light bar, and relay are all in the same spot). When the up fitter power is on, the relay engages and allows power to flow from the battery directly through to the light bar. </p><p></p><p>I was intimidated by all this as I had never set up a relay, but in the end it was thankfully quite easy. It took some fiddling to reduce wire length and get everything like I wanted. Pretty happy with how it turned out, as things are pretty clean in the engine bay, with no extra wire sticking out and everything tucked away.</p><p></p><p>Thanks for looking, and hopefully this helps you with your own projects!</p><p></p><p>p.s. the lights are incredible</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ryan C, post: 1876526, member: 37209"] For the Onx6+ I posted elsewhere about this, describing how I mounted and what I cut. [URL]https://www.fordraptorforum.com/threads/onx6-30-arc-on-front-bumper.95665/[/URL] moving to the wiring, I ran 12ga wire from connection on the light, up to the cab side of the battery tray, where I connected to a four pin 40amp relay. A picture showing the routing of the battery up to the battery area is here (its the flexible loom attached to the taped large wire pack, and the metal bar that goes in the flexible loom) [ATTACH type="full"]392950[/ATTACH] For those who don't know (like me before this project), a relay is an electric switch that is turned on by applying current. A good explanation is here: [MEDIA=youtube]HmiqUZ0sRt4[/MEDIA] More on this below. I wrapped the positive and ground wires from the light in flexible split wire loom all the way to the battery, and exited the ground wire from the light part of the way through the loom at the ground location behind the battery (that ground wire is shown in this pic, closest to the camera looping up from the bottom)[ATTACH type="full"]392945[/ATTACH] The relay itself has four connections. There is a line from the battery, that I connected with an inline 30A fuse. Battery connection is: [ATTACH type="full"]392947[/ATTACH] here's a pic showing the inline fuse and connection to the relay, which is bolted to the battery tray. Conveniently there is a hole already drilled into the battery tray, so I used a 1/4" rivnut in that hole to create a blind nut for the stainless bolt. [ATTACH type="full"]392949[/ATTACH] In the above pic you can also see how I ran the wire harness coming from the XL80s, secured it to the wires going into the relay, and then looped it down and around the battery tray to the weather pack connect around the side of that tray where the ground and up fitter wires are. As for the relay, I heat shrink wrapped all the connectors and then taped it all up. The relay works like this. The power comes from the battery, and is interrupted by the relay. The upfitter switch power wire comes into the relay on one end, and goes to ground on the other (that ground wire is run through the flexible wire loom again back to the ground location on the side of the battery tray - so grounds from the xl80s, light bar, and relay are all in the same spot). When the up fitter power is on, the relay engages and allows power to flow from the battery directly through to the light bar. I was intimidated by all this as I had never set up a relay, but in the end it was thankfully quite easy. It took some fiddling to reduce wire length and get everything like I wanted. Pretty happy with how it turned out, as things are pretty clean in the engine bay, with no extra wire sticking out and everything tucked away. Thanks for looking, and hopefully this helps you with your own projects! p.s. the lights are incredible [/QUOTE]
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