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tropical36
Nov 30, 2013Explorer
Bobbo wrote:wbwood wrote:
Can you use the magnetic lights that plugs into the 4 pin plug? Rather than having the car plugged in , thus running down the battery and having to get something else for that?
You don't understand how the lights are wired.
You don't use the car's battery to run the lights, except for a brief time when the car's brake pedal is pressed.
You either add new bulbs not wired to the car at all, OR put diodes in the car's wiring to prevent back powering the car's wiring. Then you run a wire to the front of the car where it plugs into the MH wiring. The power for the tail lights, brake lights, and marker lights comes from the MH battery/alternator. Like I said, the car's battery won't be used except when the car's brake pedal is pressed. That will be such a short time it won't cause any problems.
While you CAN use magnetic lights, it will soon become more trouble than it is worth. You will be far happier with permanently wired tail lights.
.....or if you have a toad, such as a Jeep Wrangler JK series, you can use a COOLTECH plug and play harness that doesn't require either of the above or anything else and yes the toad battery is only used for when it's brake pedal is depressed. Later JK's don't have a steering lock that require an ignition unlocking procedure either.
For lighting on the rest, I like making up a light bar or better yet, using a hitch haul that utilizes a hitch receiver on the toad and with a connector on the front and on the back. This is completely independent of the the toad's wiring, so no invasive procedure to it's wiring is required.
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