What did you do to your Ranger today?

[Colo_Ranger]

Received my Garmin PowerSwitch this morning and installed it. So far, its running my ditch lights and the trigger wire for my compressor. I still need to wire up my light bar and my 7" round auxiliary lights, but I ran out of time this afternoon.

The Garmin has 30a relays built in, which means I don't need the external relays for each device like I had. I was able to pull 5 relays out of the truck completely, along with all the wiring below. The whole point of this was to clean up the wiring and simplify my setup.

The Garmin works off bluetooth, from my phone (and CarPlay) to turn on and off the devices. What is really nice is that I can configure special buttons and program them however I want. I have one button setup to turn on all my forward facing lights. The Garmin also has the ability to configure based on trigger wires, meaning I can tap into the brights, setup all forward facing lights to come on with the brights automatically, then... when my auto-brights turn on and off, the lightbar/7" rounds/ditch lights will all turn on as well. Super cool piece of tech.

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[WarEagle1970]

BDS 6 inch lift kit. Fox 2.5 DSC remote reservoir coilovers on the front, Fox 2.0 performance series shocks on the rear.

 

[subquark]

Pierced nipples - sexy. ?

Now ya gotta chain 'em! =D

 

[DukeCanBuildit]

Now ya gotta chain 'em! =D

Kinky ?

 

[ControlNode]

I mounted dual neutralizers and tricked it out to help out the local SWAT Team.

Then I stopped messing with AI and got back to work. ? ? ?

Were you playing with Google's Gemini Advanced today too?

 

[DukeCanBuildit]

Were you playing with Google's Gemini Advanced today too?

Microsoft CoPilot - from the Bing browser.

 

[Doc]

BDS 6 inch lift kit. Fox 2.5 DSC remote reservoir coilovers on the front, Fox 2.0 performance series shocks on the rear.

Nice !

 

[Colo_Ranger]

I got my PowerSwitch fully installed with all the items that were previously installed. (trigger for my ARB single compressor, 22" lightbar, 7" round aux lights, ditch lights). I still need to try and reroute a few small wires, but that's more nitpicky than anything. I plan to take a little video of the Garmin PS in action, but I need another phone to record parts of my phone, since its done via... phone (phone, phone, phone, phone, phone... there I said phone a bunch of times).

I still need to pull the cabling out from inside the cab, but I need an OE trim piece to replace the Lightforce trim panel, so that will have to wait. The above picture is the total wiring removed from the truck, to accomplish the same number of fused/relayed accessory items.

 

[Jhbryaniv]

I got my PowerSwitch fully installed with all the items that were previously installed. (trigger for my ARB single compressor, 22" lightbar, 7" round aux lights, ditch lights). I still need to try and reroute a few small wires, but that's more nitpicky than anything. I plan to take a little video of the Garmin PS in action, but I need another phone to record parts of my phone, since its done via... phone (phone, phone, phone, phone, phone... there I said phone a bunch of times).

I still need to pull the cabling out from inside the cab, but I need an OE trim piece to replace the Lightforce trim panel, so that will have to wait. The above picture is the total wiring removed from the truck, to accomplish the same number of fused/relayed accessory items.

Which trim piece are you replacing? One from down here?

 

[Colo_Ranger]

Which trim piece are you replacing? One from down here?

Yeah, the one that the 12v chargers are in.

 

[subquark]

Not much of a "what did you do" but for some of us (me) almost anything is challenging! =D

"Installed" my resqme glass breaker dealios. Seemed like about the best spot. The visor clips aren't big enough for our chunky visors (and I don't have built-in vanity mirrors, so mine should be the thinnest). They do fit but also come off very easily.

Thought about using the split rings to hang them from the visor pivot, but I'm not ready for the Tijuana tassel look.

given enough time, this will be Soupie one day!

 

[RedDakooter05]

Not much of a "what did you do" but for some of us (me) almost anything is challenging! =D

"Installed" my resqme glass breaker dealios. Seemed like about the best spot. The visor clips aren't big enough for our chunky visors (and I don't have built-in vanity mirrors, so mine should be the thinnest). They do fit but also come off very easily.

Thought about using the split rings to hang them from the visor pivot, but I'm not ready for the Tijuana tassel look.

given enough time, this will be Soupie one day!

Stop buying s*** god damn man.

 

[Fordup]

Stop buying s*** god damn man.

Not yet ?. Soupie still has 100 pounds of payload left for things Ford should have added at the factory ?.

 

[underwhelmed]

Stop buying s*** god damn man.

You’re suppose to help him spend his money. That is the mission of this entire forum…???????????

 

[Jhbryaniv]

probably a good thing I opened these connectors up again before I wired them into the truck . . .

I am not an expert at soldering, but I do own a soldering iron and I do know that solder joints are supposed to have all the wires in them, and they aren't supposed to look like this . . .

:-/

Also, the o-rings in these connectors were not seated in any of the grooves, the one shown here is jammed up and away from the seating surface, meaning the connector was not water sealer to IP68 as it says it should be. . .

I think I am going to just run the wires using duetsch connectors.

I also think I am going to get a set of these boxes so I can have a single wire from the switch box under the hood per pair of lights that will be around the truck bed . . . Currently I have just one per side, until I get the chase light bar (replacement high mount third brake light and turn signals) mounted.

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