Amp draw capacity for Rigid light bar circuit?

[RichP64]

Thinking about adding additional off-road lights and personally like the fact that the OEM light bar is tied to the high beams. Does the circuit have enough capacity to simply tap in additional lighting? Anyone know the capacity here?

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[maxx075]

Thinking about adding additional off-road lights and personally like the fact that the OEM light bar is tied to the high beams. Does the circuit have enough capacity to simply tap in additional lighting? Anyone know the capacity here?

It would mainly depend on which light bar/size you're looking at. Just going off of pure speculation here as I only have an OR, but some of the light bars from Rigid draw more than 15 amps (which is the max size for the Aux switches - without any further modifications) so I doubt it could handle any of the E series as is.

 

[Sagebrush]

Does the circuit have enough capacity to simply tap in additional lighting? Anyone know the capacity here?

I don't know, but you could tap into it with relay switch, and it should be fine.

 

[RESQCAT]

Today I am installing a Rigid 20-inch amber light bar in an Addictive Desert Designs bumper. Rigid said it draws 8.5A. It is wired into the GREEN wire (10A) on the Toyota-provided OEM pigtail installed in the front driver side up near the grill. I used the WHITE wire (5A) for a CaliRaisedLED pair of ditch lights (2A draw) and the BLACK wire (15A) for the Rigid rear bumper lights. Black wire is preinstalled to work with the rear OEM pigtail setup and is overkill for those lights... but no harm, no foul and easy to install.

 

[RichP64]

I guess I'm curious as to whether or not the OEM installed Rigid 20" light bar is powered directly or run off a relay? I noticed the wires coming from the actually switches in the dash are extremely small, look like 18 or 20ga, seems like they'd only get away with that if the light was already being run off a relay switch. If so, which relay and what capacity?

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