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Electricians?

11-16-2001, 03:49 AM

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Electricians?

I'm putting in some lighted rocker switches for aux. lights, etc.. and need to know the right/best wiring scheme.

Rockers have 3 blades:
1. is ground
2. is load
3. is power

Which is battery supply power? Load or power? And isn't one just for "lighting" the rocker switch? If so, should/can that be powered from a source in the cab fuse box (if so what fuse should I use)?

Here's my plan:
For the switches - use a common (shared) wire for the ground under the dash somewhere, and also use a shared wire for the load/power (whichever is NOT the main battery power source), and then run individual fused relays and wires to each switch for the MAIN power coming from the battery, grounding each light to the chasis/frame somewhere.

Sound about right?

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