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Getting the Disco how I like it

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beast5680:
looks very neat nice job you,ve made there :D

thermidorthelobster:
Just added another switch in so I can switch the feed to the cigarette lighter / USB hub separately from the ignition if I want to.  So can now charge up phones etc with the engine off, but can isolate the whole thing at the flick of a switch so it just comes on with the ignition as normal, to save draining the battery.  I managed to find a switch at Halfords which fits the little cutout just below the foglight switches perfectly - probably the same one Land Rover use, although I'm not sure what that cutout's for.

The last thing I'm planning (thanks, Lee!) is to add yet another Cruise switch (there's a spare socket below the original one, the last in the binnacle) so I can switch the spotlights in with the main beam if I want to.  As with the isolator switch above, I'll use it to trigger the relay feed but I'll stick in a diode so I'm not trying to run main beam off the little relay exciter wire when I turn the spotlights on separately.

thermidorthelobster:
Done the last bit - plumbed in a FOURTH cruise control switch, which tethers the spotlights to full beam.  So I can switch them independently, or hit a button and have them come on with full beam.

The spotlights are only 50W but between the four of them they give a pleasing aura that is probably visible from space.  It'll certainly be a useful way of "reminding" people who don't bother dipping their headlights!

I need to go and have a play now.  It's just a shame that a tank of diesel now costs more than the car.

stageonesimmo:
Now that my second battery and alternator set-up is up and running, the light bar is fitted and the roof-rack is going back on ready for the roof-tent and summer camping trips, the spots for the bar and a hard-wired inverter are the next things on my list to do (after fettling a leaking oil-cooler pipe)  I'm just wondering, is normal mains cable OK for the feeds from battery to lamps - I've got a reel of 3 core mains stuff (orange insulation) so I was just gonna use that the thinking being I could use it to send separate feeds to pairs of lamps down the red/blue wires and earth then through the green/yellow one....

Would that work?.................

Also I have a set of leads to use as jump-leads and they are on Anderson connectors - the vehicle side will be mounted on the top of the front bumper under the grille then the leads will have a pair of croc clips on one end and an Anderson socket with handle at the other - my question is I need the use of a set of heavy duty hydraulic cable crimpers, but cant seem to find any listed by the usual tool suppliers - anyone any ideas?

If I say nice truck and good work will I get away with the (still roughly on topic) hijack, I wonder?...... :lol:

Jake:
Nice work David
Very tidy
 :D

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