Spotlight Wiring

Afternoon gents,

Having a bloomin great bank holiday weekend. Spent nearly all of it under the landy, though choice. The living room floor is covered in tools. Ahh, the joys of being single. Asked my sister if she had a self cleaning oven me and my manifold could borrow for a wee while, but she was not impressed

Anyway, just about to wire in my spotlights (A bar attachment). Looks pretty straight forward (wiring into full beam, without a separate switch. I'll work that out later).

But, question is, do I really need to take power to the relay from the battery? I was going to tap in to power from the headlight wiring.

Just though I would ask for someones recent experience rather that re-invent the wheel

Cheers

I would not do that as the headlight wiring will probably melt, get the relay fed from the B+ terminal on the alternator, or the live connection on the starter if you don't want to run a wire all the way back to the battery.

Cool. Cheers.

you will need a + feed direct from battery and also a feed from main beam to trigger the relay when main beam is switched on

I wired mine in with a relay under the bonnet had a switch wire off the beam and took my -tive +tive off the alternator easy enough.