Getting Roof light wiring into cab.

Ive been contemplating installing some lights on the roof and with doing a search in wiring installs ive not yet come across a detachable system of getting the wiring into the cab, or a suggested system at all.. Any suggestions or even pic's would be great thank you..

Drill an ole and shove some wire through

Thinking thiese two
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Thanks, they look good!

Ttuck3r said:

Thanks, they look good!

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Costly though for what you're getting, I think any search of 'inline waterproof plug' should come up with more options.

Have you got a snorkel?

I don't have any experience of external light bar fittings, but I do have a bit with mobile radio systems and outdoor floodlighting systems.

From what I can understand you're asking about a way of making the connections to a roof mounted light bar which can be dismounted or fitted as you want to.

If that's the case then the suggestion by Ginge (BGB) would be useful if you have a snorkel, you could run the cable up inside it, the only problem then is what to do with the loose flying socket.

If your plan is to mount a socket on the roof then the considerations will have to be the current carrying capability of the pins, the sealing method needed where the socket is mounted to the bodywork, the sealing method required to prevent water ingress to the plug and socket when the bar is in place and the sealing method when the plug is removed.

I'm not suggesting the you fit a 12s trailer socket on the roof, but if you take a look at the arrangement of the trailer sockets you should get some idea of what I mean.
A socket mounted on the roof will be far more rugged than trying to control a flying lead with a socket on the end of it.

If you intend to permanently fix the light bar in place then there are a whole load of "cable entry glands" available from electrical suppliers.

Wot Brian said ^^^ will work.

But my next statement was going to be, why dont you run the cable down the back of the snorkel and under the less than adequate bonnet sealing and from there into the cab.

I have always gone with the theory that another connection is a another possible problem. If it was me id go from the first lamp straight to your fuse box.

Obviously this only works for permanent installs.

Just wired 4 spots onto my roof in a very basic fashion.

Wired the spots onto the main run then down under the roof bar in a shower tube. Off into the gutter and down under the windscreen channel into engine bay into fuse block, with a switch looped through tje bulkhead and attached to the side of the binicle.

Rough an ready but it works!