Grand Umpah

I was getting ready to install my PIAA 520 lamps and was having trouble deciding where to plant the relay and how to tap into some power when I saw the excellent write-up by bobholthaus [ https://www.jk-forum.com/forums/jk-e...-mount-263893/ ] on his wiring of OTRATTW switches in the RR A pillar mount. His last picture showed a panel he fabricated to hold 2 Blue Sea fuse blocks, and I knew that this was the solution; it's about the only space under the hood that doesn't cover something you might need to get to.

Got a 6" x 12" sheet of aluminum from the hardware store, a Blue Sea fuse block from West Marine (but you can get them from Amazon, too), some wire and connectors, and by Saturday noon I had the panel complete and installed with the PIAA relay, and by that evening the PIAA lamps saw "first light" (as the astronomers like to say).

All told, it was about $60-$70 to make and wire the panel and now I have hookups for 6 accessories (but if you needed more, you could go with a larger fuse block from Blue Sea), and it's a nice location because it's a straight shot to the hole in the firewall to route wires to my RR A-pillar switches.



And here's the PIAAs, which seem to throw the amount of light for the distance I was looking for.

Winged

Easy. Go to the junk yard and pull a fuse box off something else. I got ( and I hate to say it ) a single inbound line box off a Ford that works great. Relays and all. Ripped it apart. Put in new wires and it fits quite nice. It's cheaper and yes doesn't look nice. But I don't have 500 lines off the battery. I have 3. Main winch and extra fixed box. I think it cost me like 30 bucks.