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Newly Enlightened
It's that time of year again... Christmas time!
The first order of business was wiring a relay so I could control a 120v signal with my brake lights. The relay is something I would reccomend even if you want to do this with 12v lights because it will limit the amount of current that you are trying to draw from your bake light cable. I also decided to use a SSR so it wouldn't click every time that I stepped on and off of my brakes, even though it was a little more pricey ($8).
I mounted the relay...
And attached the control cables to my Jeep's center brake light.
Here's the Christmas lights' wire across the load leads.
The last thing I had to do was connect the power.
After that I just had to run the 120v AC lines. I ran one main like into the driver-side rear wheel well, and from there I connected the lights that were wrapped around the bumper and another line back into the Jeep that was connected to the lights on the wreath. All-in-all it looks pretty good.
Here's my AC inverter.
The wires going in and out of my Jeep.
The wires under the wheel well.
Here's a video of what it looks like in action!
I appreciate any feedback... Hope you like it!
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