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Yep 2 relays in series. One operated by high beam and the other operated by the fog circuit. Means driving light only comes on when both are energised.
My relays sit under the fuse box connected to the right wires and a battery connection for high power. Only wire needed to run was a high current feed to lights.
No extra switches needed in the cab. No chance of overloading existing wiring.
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It may sound counter-intuitive but I have found it better to use old-school halogen driving lights in the fog. The yellower light will light up further through fog, if only be a few meters, whereas the bright and diffuse LED light will probably blind you and anybody in front of you.
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Great idea. Use the fog light power wire to open and close a relay. This relay is then cut into the ground wire of the light bar relay. Very neat!
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I wired my fog lights to be the relay trigger for a set of LED spots. Really easy with a tee piece connector from jaycar.

It's not legal that way though, so I'm now running them with an a pillar switch and a high beam trigger. But it is neat and means you can use the factory fog stalk switch to activate factory fogs and Lightbar/LEDS simultaneously (who uses fogs on road anyway)

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I just bought a 22" yellow LED fog lightbar for the bonnet and was wondering what I was doing with the wiring, now I know [emoji3]


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