What are y'all running from your aux switches?

[Blue Ridge]

I finally have a winch and steel bumpers coming, and figured the winch should be the #4 switch. So that's one down, so may as well fill in another 1 or 3 when I get inside there. Considered some old school KC lights on the brush guard. With these LEDs, I really can't say this vehicle needs more forward light though. Rock lights are nice, but they'd be better suited for my daily driving as "puddle lights" and wired to come on when the interior lights do. And I'm not sure how complicated that might get. Compressor is a thought. Those of you that have used yours, what are they hooked up to?

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[Slojo]

I put KC lights on 3 and 4 because it is only 15 amp fused. All the advice I received said to run the winch on 1 or 2 because they are 40

 

[Blue Ridge]

Good to know. I have a lot of research ahead of me, clearly! But the bumper is 3-4 weeks out, so have plenty of time to read up watch 1000 YouTube videos.


Edited to add, @Slojo if you have a photo handy, I'd love to see your Gladiator with KCs

 

[chrismeece74]

Winch on one, cowl led lights, 20 inch light bar on my sport rack and rock lights on the last one

 

[Blue Ridge]

Interested in seeing anybody's extra lighting who's answering this thread too, if you have them. My personal "what should I buy for my Gladiator today" thread. On one hand, the less my wife will notice, the better. On the other, she's going to notice the new bumpers (and see me working on it) but she doesn't know they don't come with a winch and lights.

 

[Jglad15]

Curious to why you want to put the winch on an aux switch?

 

[Lives The Dream]

Curious to why you want to put the winch on an aux switch?

Well you can deploy and retract the line without getting out of the cab, so there's that.
But I think you need to hook up 2 switches, one to power the line in and one to power it out.

 

[Rusty PW]

Well you can deploy and retract the line without getting out of the cab, so there's that.
But I think you need to hook up 2 switches, one to power the line in and one to power it out.

Nope....nope...nope. You use the aux switch for a winch power interrupt kit solenoid. Use the switch to power the solenoid. The switch is good for 40 amps. a winch can draw over 450 amps.

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[JeepOfTheseus]

1. Roof Light Bar
2. 4 A-Pillar Cube Lights
3. 4 Cargo Box Yellow Fog Cube Lights
4. 2 Rear Bumper Cube Lights
5. 2 Side Step Mounted Rock Cube Lights
6. Front Locker (TBI)
7. Winch Power (via isolator)
8. Air Compressor (via relay)

My original aux switch box is now currently unused.

 

[Jglad15]

Well you can deploy and retract the line without getting out of the cab, so there's that.
But I think you need to hook up 2 switches, one to power the line in and one to power it out.

Mine is just hooked to the battery and I can do that with out getting out of the cab.

 

[ArmyMP]

Well you can deploy and retract the line without getting out of the cab, so there's that.
But I think you need to hook up 2 switches, one to power the line in and one to power it out.

That's not how it works. Lol.


My winch has a wireless remote to do that.


But nothing atm. I can't get the freaking wires out of the larger loom.

 

[Tuggernuts]

The aux switch for the winch is just an interrupt so when it’s not switched on no power can be supplied to the winch. It’s a safety measure. You can run that on the 15 amp switch I think. I wired up some cowl lights tonight. Put them on switch 3.

 

[Blue Ridge]

Curious to why you want to put the winch on an aux switch?

I assumed you would keep the unit with no power, then run it from the remote when needed. Though I suppose it being in a "plugged in" state is really no different from my microwave or coffee maker in the sense that it's not "on" until turned on. So if I run it direct, I have 4 switches I'm not doing anything with.

 

[GEETCH]

Running my dash cam switch one from behind the glove box, soon I’ll be adding a cb radio to switch 2, just need to decide which type of radio I want a ssb 40 ch with weather and scan or a combo cb radio 40 channel weather with a built in police/fire/ambulance scanner (bearcat 885)

 

[Jglad15]

I assumed you would keep the unit with no power, then run it from the remote when needed. Though I suppose it being in a "plugged in" state is really no different from my microwave or coffee maker in the sense that it's not "on" until turned on. So if I run it direct, I have 4 switches I'm not doing anything with.

Got yah! Was just curious to why ppl were running through there!

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