Best place to get power for driving lights?

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HotWheelsBurban

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I can identify with everything you wrote, especially regarding the bad habits, such as rent, electricity, etc.

I knew that I had a harness kickin' around that I wanted to send you, and I found it this morning. Unfortunately, it's a plug and play H4 harness from one of my bikes that really wouldn't be worth chopping up for an auxiliary lamp setup.
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I misremembered, sorry M'lady...I am still looking for bracketed Bosch or Hella relay that's playing hide-and-go-seek. I think it's hiding with what's left of my brain.
No problem, appreciate it!
I have a few weeks to get this done, just has to be done before the trip to Austin next month. Some of that will be at night.
 

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To answer the original question, grab power from the back/firewall side of the fuse box. You will need a maxi fuse (40/50 amp or so if not already there) to energize those big bolt terminals, but that’s what I’m using, and they are ignition switched so you can’t accidentally leave lights on.

feed power down along the fender well to where you put your relay, then from down the rad/core support to the under bumper area amd front of truck.

I have mine set up on a factory fog switch, but I generally just leave it switched on so they are always on when ignition is on.
Can you use a cargo lamp switch for this? I have a couple of those....
 
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