What I did after
doing some research on YotaTech's
Toyota forums was to go out and buy a 6 gang fuse box made by Buss Fuses.
The part # for the Buss ATC fuse panel is BP/15600-06-20. Any automotive
parts supply store should have this, or be able to order you one.
It was less than
$10, so it's not very expensive.
I also bought an
8 foot roll of 10 gauge wire, and a mini fuse blade holder to come off
of the battery. I put a 30 amp fuse into it. It also has a cover on the
fuse holder to seal it against water.
The 30 amp fuse
is way more than adequate as all the taps that are going to the box only
require low amperage. The CB would be the biggest draw, as the light switches
and the Warn switch only require a small amount of amperage to energize
the relays that are under the hood.
The relays themselves
are wired directly to the battery with their own appropriate fuse.
This was very easy to wire up. The hardest part was deciding where to put it. I wanted to put it in the cockpit, but there was no room so to speak. I could have gone under a seat, but would have had to run a lot of extra wire.
The way I wired it
up is the CB and the Warn each have their own line going out to the auxiliary
fuse box. The 3 sets of switches controlling the lights are all wired
together and go out the firewall with a single 14 gauge wire and tap in
as one plug on the new box.
This is perfectly
safe as the switches require only low amperage.
Each circuit on the
box is protected with a 15 amp blade type fuse. I wired this up so the
box has power at all times. This way all the accessories can be used without
having to have the key on. The only concern now is to not leave the CB
or the lights on.
No problem, they
all light up very well, even in daylight you can see the CB and the switches
glowing in the cockpit.
You can use any
amperage fuse you want to, but I had a box of about 30 15 amp fuses, so
I am using them.
I highly recommend doing this if you also have a jungle of wires tapped into your fuse box inside. It's a much cleaner way of doing your wiring. In the near future I will be picking up the exact same box and using it to get all the wires off of my positive battery terminal. These wires are all for the relays that go to the lights, and other accessories.
Below are some pictures
of the setup.
1. The jungle.
2. The parts including
marine grade female connectors to go to the new box.
3. The 30 amp mini
blade fuse holder.
4. Box all screwed
onto the firewall, no taps yet.
5. The cockpits
fuse box all back to normal.
6. Product all wired
up with the the taps from the cockpit.
If you have any further questions, please
contact me.
Corey
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