I received my GFC Light kit and am wondering what the best way to connect it to power would be. Theres no instructions with the kit and nothing on the website, youtube etc from GFC.
I have a 100AH 12 volt battery charging off solar in the bed of my truck that I’d like to hook it up to. Should I just strip the wire ends off some of the connections and hook it up directly? Do i need a fuse? what size? etc. Any other helpful info you can provide would be great.
I hard wired mine into an auxbeam switch panel I have controlling all the stuff in my bed/ on the aux battery.
I found a pigtail so I could keep the 12v cigarette plug as a backup.
The connection is a DC5521 so anything like this will do
(Sorry I don’t remember if you need male or female) DC5521
I did a little extra legwork to find the matching weatherproof connector
from left to right:
my lighting controller (RGBW with remote and bluetooth), switches, fuse block, fuse block with ground, DC-DC w/ MPPT, and 100AH battery.
The way it works is power is sent to the fuse block with ground on the fuse side then to the switches. The switches feed power to the fuse block when on “on” position. Fuse block sends power to the accessories, and everything is grounded to the ground side of the fuse block with ground.
I chose to run fuse block with ground because that’s what I had on hand (and I could run relays for something that draws more power in the future, if there’s a need for it).
For your application, it will be a lot easier to cut off that barrel plug they sent and just do a pigtail. 5A fuse should be plenty already for these LEDs.
this setup runs my camper lights (up and down stairs, all around the aluminum extrusion bar thing in an rectangle shape, both full RGBW with bluetooth and remote connection. aka, two separate identical systems independent of each other), cooking lights (another strip of 10 individual leds on the tailgate panel), diesel heater (when needed, that’s what one of the Anderson connector is for), external camp lights (2x BD S2), rock lights (10 under the truck), water pump (if i need it, that’s what the second Anderson connector is for), and I use the ciggy plug on the battery box for some other USB-C stuff (charging DJI cameras and drone) and laptop.
I do have a fuse box. I haven’t wired it up yet as Ive been waiting for some instructions from @GFC. They sold me the kit you’d think they would provide some basic instructions…
Just pulled the fuse in the OEM supplied barrel plug, it is a 5A fuse.
confirmed with my own wiring on a 5A fuse with my auxbeam, no issue with multiple uses.
