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isis

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Agreed, It seemed that he was replying to me and I just wanted to clarify why my switch number and fuse ratings were different in my previous post.
He was replying to you. Am I missing something or are you not posting gen I electrical questions in the gen II forum? Not that anything I said wouldn’t apply to both.

holy Christ this isn’t your thread. Carry on folks.
 

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He was replying to you. Am I missing something or are you not posting gen I electrical questions in the gen II forum? Not that anything I said wouldn’t apply to both.

holy Christ this isn’t your thread. Carry on folks.

Valid point, apologies to the OP
 

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Certainly wasn’t making a point. Just pointing out my confusion about whom I was speaking with.
 

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Jake. Just use relays. The AUX wires are so small, don’t take chances.

The picture of my setup above in the thread uses just the one relay for AUX 6. What you don’t see in the picture are the two circuit breakers and fuses for my dual battery system. I works fine for just the BU lights, but is not as clean as Mr. Miller’s setup. Adding more lighting circuits with their relays and fuses would really clutter things up.

Once I find some spare time :) I will add more lighting to the Raptor. At that time I will have Tony Candella build me a custom panel to fit all of the individual components.

Here is a link to the relay page on Tony’s site.https://ceautoelectricsupply.com/custom-relay-panels/
 

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I may temporarily reduce the fuses in the up-fitters for piece of mind, but I am eventually going to switch to a switch pro's set up so I will have to look how that system is fused/setup.

Yes, switch 4 is for the trigger fuse for the relay(s) on the compressor. There might be two relays since it is the ARB twin. Yes I have a home run running from the battery back to the bed fused at 80 amps for the compressor.
DO NOT REDUCE THE AMPERAGE OF THE FUSES FOR THE AUX SWITCHES. they are there for a reason. reducing them means less current can pass through the fuse.
 

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DO NOT REDUCE THE AMPERAGE OF THE FUSES FOR THE AUX SWITCHES. they are there for a reason. reducing them means less current can pass through the fuse.


I’m not at all doubting the knowledge here, just trying to truly understand the ramifications for each action.
Wouldn’t that make the whole circuit safer? As in if I were to reduce that switches fuse to a fuse that is closer to the loads requirements?
 
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