Suzuki Club UK

morning everyone.

fitted my new spots last nite

basically took the bump stops out above the windscreen and used the holes to mount the spots in.

the question is when i go to wire them in today (hopefully. bloody weather ) am i right in saying
that it wont earth on the windscreen, where i mounted the lights, due to it bein a fold down windscreen and thus surrounded in rubber?

if so is there any recommended area to position the earth??

cheers
steve

I imagine it will earth through the hinges at the bottom, but its good practice (and stops you scratching your head later when you get an issue) if you run a seperate earth, when I mounted spot lights on my roof I ran a section of 2.5mm twin core and earth which comes flat and is what you use in house wiring on a 240v socket ringmain, this I glued to the inside of the windscreen surround, at the top I fitted a connector and ran the rest of the wiring to the spots in flex, with the connector you can disconnect it whilst removing the soft top & it makes the job a bit easier! The twin core & earth (that was glued to the inside of the screen) I painted black & powered from a relay under the dash, it doesn't look overly bad even if I do say so myself!

A picture of my switches


And my wiring, you can see the connectors


I have to add.... its a nightmare trying to link to Photobucket images on your phone!

ah fantastic!

yeah im gonna be runnin mine trhu a relay and a fuse as well, just so its done proper like.

and the previous owner had cut a hole in the dash, a perfect size for the switch i have!

cheers dude!!

i'll put some when im done!
cheers matey!

There is a fly lead between the body tub and the screen surround internally as it needs the earth for the wiper motor.

Tramp wrote: I have to add.... its a nightmare trying to link to Photobucket images on your phone!

What phone? I just pop the app up. Tap 'show links' then tap the img code (which auto copies the same as the pc site) and paste it to my post.

Dan

dan_2k_uk wrote:There is a fly lead between the body tub and the screen surround internally as it needs the earth for the wiper motor.

I was gonna say I thought there was an earth between the surround and body.

What app? Runner still doesn't work for me so I do it all through the browser...

Photobucket app. I use my browser for the forum and just use the task switcher on the phone to swap between the browser and the photobucket app.

ah nice one guys, that'll tidy things up a bit!

weather was sh*te last nite so hopefully tonite is a goer!