Today I started to put together my new Troy center console that I bought on E-Bay. I had cleaned it up, and repainted it with some of the spray in bedliner stuff... came out really nice, and should be more durable than regular paint.
Last year, while at the Chicagoland Emergency Vehicle show, I kept having a problem with the main cicuit breaker kicking out, and turning off the lights... in the middle of the parade... After checking all of the wiring for shorts the next morning, (Fun pulling carpet up and checking everything in the parking lot of the motel!) and letting it sit there and run, with no problems, until I turned on too many lights... I came to the conclusion that it was the circuit breaker getting weak. So since I am installing a new console... I am redoing ALL of the wiring going to it, and a different switch panel.
So here is what I am doing with the wiring...
First, TWO 6 gauge wires coming from the battery, and the starter relay, so I will have a "switched" and "unswitched" circuit... Since the two way radios need both to work right, and some things I want to go off when I turn the key off.
Both wires will run through a seperate (2 cicuit breakers) circuit breaker like this:
Then thru the firewall on the passenger side, with a grommet and sealed with silicone
Then it goes to the fuse panel inside the switch panel:
This will power the radios, and other small amp circuits.
Then another 6 gauge wire from the terminal on the fuse block, (On the same terminal as the one going into the fuse block) Going to another cicuit breaker like this:
This will then go to the input of the switch panel for all of the emergency light controls.
I had one of these already, which I cleaned up,repainted it with the bedliner stuff, and put new labels and switches in it.. it now looks like new. The switches I got for it also looks alot better... they were a little more expensive switches than the originals... but look nicer, and seem to be a better switch.
Then the individual light circuit wires will come out of the switch panel, and go to some high amp plugs like these:
These can be bought in four different colors, in 50 and 100 amp sizes... For my application, I will be using the smaller 50 amp ones... There will be four plugs, so I can wire in:
Power
Ground
Rotating lights
Front take down lights
Rear Flash
Left alley lights
Right alley lights
"Pursuit" front flash, that makes the front take downs alternate when you hit the flashing headlight switch
Then the wiring harness will go from the plugs to the lightbar.
Pictures when I get this done....
Tom...
Last year, while at the Chicagoland Emergency Vehicle show, I kept having a problem with the main cicuit breaker kicking out, and turning off the lights... in the middle of the parade... After checking all of the wiring for shorts the next morning, (Fun pulling carpet up and checking everything in the parking lot of the motel!) and letting it sit there and run, with no problems, until I turned on too many lights... I came to the conclusion that it was the circuit breaker getting weak. So since I am installing a new console... I am redoing ALL of the wiring going to it, and a different switch panel.
So here is what I am doing with the wiring...
First, TWO 6 gauge wires coming from the battery, and the starter relay, so I will have a "switched" and "unswitched" circuit... Since the two way radios need both to work right, and some things I want to go off when I turn the key off.
Both wires will run through a seperate (2 cicuit breakers) circuit breaker like this:
Then thru the firewall on the passenger side, with a grommet and sealed with silicone
Then it goes to the fuse panel inside the switch panel:
This will power the radios, and other small amp circuits.
Then another 6 gauge wire from the terminal on the fuse block, (On the same terminal as the one going into the fuse block) Going to another cicuit breaker like this:
This will then go to the input of the switch panel for all of the emergency light controls.
I had one of these already, which I cleaned up,repainted it with the bedliner stuff, and put new labels and switches in it.. it now looks like new. The switches I got for it also looks alot better... they were a little more expensive switches than the originals... but look nicer, and seem to be a better switch.
Then the individual light circuit wires will come out of the switch panel, and go to some high amp plugs like these:
These can be bought in four different colors, in 50 and 100 amp sizes... For my application, I will be using the smaller 50 amp ones... There will be four plugs, so I can wire in:
Power
Ground
Rotating lights
Front take down lights
Rear Flash
Left alley lights
Right alley lights
"Pursuit" front flash, that makes the front take downs alternate when you hit the flashing headlight switch
Then the wiring harness will go from the plugs to the lightbar.
Pictures when I get this done....
Tom...
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