Wednesday, 18 February 2015

Brighter than the sun

So I've a bit of a light fetish. It's led me to install an LED work light at the back of the Freelander, to help out if I'm working (duh) at the rear or as an additional reversing light for dark lanes. 

It is a fairly inexpensive LED light from China, and I mounted it using a short steel bracket bolted to the cross bar of the roof rack.


The wiring is fed down the rack and behind the tail door hinges, where there is a waterproof connector, then through a grommet to the inside of the car. The connector is there if I need to remove the rack, I can do it all easily and quickly. 

Inside the car there are 2 switches, one in the back next to the C pillar:


And one in the front to the right of the voltmeter:


I have wired these up as 2-way, so that I can switch the light on or off from either position, and can switch it on from the front and off at the back (or vice versa). 

The light is pretty good for this, it's a diffused type and gives a good spread of light. 

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