Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Stel" data-source="post: 4170988" data-attributes="member: 574698">ah ok,&nbsp; it won&#039;t short out and the fog light circuit should be able to handle 6amps easily, but like i said, if these are all wired to one switch, now when one door opens, all 8 lights will go on. The question here is if the old door circuit can handle 8 lights, if it can&#039;t that fuse will blow or that switch in the door will fry.&nbsp; I&#039;m guessing that circuit can handle it though, there isn&#039;t a lot of current draw here. But keep in mind you have the door switch potentially supplying a load it might not have been designed for (ie if only one door is open then current for all 8 lights will be passing through that door switch).So the alternative would be to put a diode rated for at least 12v and the current it supplies (1.4 amps for 2 lights) in series with each 12v + feed to each door from the fog switch.Diodes allow current to flow in only one direction, so the one fog switch will still turn on all 8 lights, but if one door is open , only the lights for that door will come one (assuming the fog switch was off), but yes, the fog switch can be on while the door is open without stuff shorting out.So one more question, currently if one door is open, only that light comes on? and if so do you want to keep it that way?(I&#039;m off to work)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Stel, post: 4170988, member: 574698"] ah ok, it won't short out and the fog light circuit should be able to handle 6amps easily, but like i said, if these are all wired to one switch, now when one door opens, all 8 lights will go on. The question here is if the old door circuit can handle 8 lights, if it can't that fuse will blow or that switch in the door will fry. I'm guessing that circuit can handle it though, there isn't a lot of current draw here. But keep in mind you have the door switch potentially supplying a load it might not have been designed for (ie if only one door is open then current for all 8 lights will be passing through that door switch). So the alternative would be to put a diode rated for at least 12v and the current it supplies (1.4 amps for 2 lights) in series with each 12v + feed to each door from the fog switch. Diodes allow current to flow in only one direction, so the one fog switch will still turn on all 8 lights, but if one door is open , only the lights for that door will come one (assuming the fog switch was off), but yes, the fog switch can be on while the door is open without stuff shorting out. So one more question, currently if one door is open, only that light comes on? and if so do you want to keep it that way? (I'm off to work) [/QUOTE]

Verification