Hey guys,
Question for you all.
Just wired up my new light bar from Paul at ledlightco, and a bloody beautiful thing it is too, if you're looking for something to go at the front of your roof rack I would definitely recommend this one (37' extreme from ledlightco.com.au)! We had a tree down on our road today so decided to put the winch to good use and snatched it off a nearby tree and dragged it off the road. However after using the winch for maybe 20 or 30 seconds the new light bar cut out. Turns out the fuse had melted, not blown, melted.
As far as I can tell there's 2 options
1. It was going to do it anyway and there was too much power going through the cables
2. For some reason using the winch caused the light fuse to melt
Does anyone have any ideas?
Light bar is set up pretty simply, switch in cab goes to relay. Relay has 2 positives, 1 straight to battery, 1 straight to light. Single negative coming out of relay with is split at the battery to go to terminal and to light.
Light bar draws 25 - 28 amps. 30 amp fuse between positive battery terminal and relay.
Not sure on the diameter of the wire between relay and battery, we had 6mm wire to put in but it looked like the same stuff?
Cheers.