Magnetic lights

tropical36 wrote:

wny_pat wrote:
Maybe I'm not as careful as the rest of you. I tried magnetic lights and ended up with scratches. Took all the precautions too. I will not run magnetic lights anymore. As adapting the toads lights, I did my own wiring and brought the proper diodes at a electronics store. If your handy, it is not difficult. Use good quality connectors, not butt connectors. If you know someone who works for the telephone company, get some from them. Theirs are excellent and have lub inside to protect the wiring from corrosion.

A chevy dinghy with these lights just pulled into this campground a little while ago. Yep, the wires in this WY windstorm has already scratched his pretty blue paint.
He does like my suggestion about making up a plug and play light bar and using it in a hitch receiver. In fact the light bar that he's using now on the back above the trunk with some sort of suction cup mounting will do nicely with a hitch tow bar welded or bolted in place. Using this method, cutting into the vehicle wiring won't be necessary at all.

Mine was the actual magnetic base of the lights that scratched the paint. I even used glad wrap as a plastic protectant, but no go.

But do like the idea of building a light bar and attaching it to the hitch receiver, or bike rack that is in the hitch receiver. Now I have a new project to start working on!