Milspec Designs

[N84ST]

I need this! I have my winch and auxiliary lights run right to the battery (the lights are fused and on relays) and I don't like how it's set up.
ETA: Well, I wanted this until I clicked the link and saw the price. Not for me, right now! My wife would murder my ass.

Price showed in AUD. Convert to ‘Merica bux and it’s like $280.

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[1pt21gw]

I posted in the "what did you do to it today" thread, but if someone comes looking here. Since I have been following this thread for a while, so this is what I did. Luke @ MilSpec Design is a great guy and was a lot of help.

 

[Msfitoy]

I need this! I have my winch and auxiliary lights run right to the battery (the lights are fused and on relays) and I don't like how it's set up.
ETA: Well, I wanted this until I clicked the link and saw the price. Not for me, right now! My wife would murder my ass.

Trigger 6 is a better value...and you get wireless toggle switches (included) and/or Bluetooth smart phone app...

Amazon Trigger 6 link

 

[Colo_Ranger]

Trigger 6 is a better value...and you get wireless toggle switches (included) and/or Bluetooth smart phone app...

Amazon Trigger 6 link

Depends on what you're going for. I had one of these and hated it. The switches felt cheap, the bluetooth app was terrible (constantly failing to pair, UI is not good either), and just didn't feel like a good piece of equipment for me.

Enter the Garmin PowerSwitch on the MilSpec Designs plate and I am as happy as a pig in poo.

 

[Colo_Ranger]

I guess I should update here with my 4th (and hopefully final) iteration of my switches. I had the Lightforce panel and switches, but I was fed up with the amount of wiring in the truck. So... I ordered the PowerSwitch and got to work. Mounted to the MilSpec plate, with a negative ground panel and my master breaker for the ARB compressor.

mounted in the truck. Wiring has been cleaned up from here.

This is the wire I was able to remove from the truck.

I can't recommend the PowerSwitch enough. It makes the install ridiculously easy. All connections are fused and relayed at the device. Its controlled by your phone and has CarPlay/Android Auto integration. There are physical buttons on the unit itself, if you're concerned about redundancy.

You can create custom buttons to turn on/off multiple items with a single button. You can use trigger wires to control functions (running lights with switched power, turn on lights with the brights).

 

[Msfitoy]

Depends on what you're going for. I had one of these and hated it. The switches felt cheap, the bluetooth app was terrible (constantly failing to pair, UI is not good either), and just didn't feel like a good piece of equipment for me.

Enter the Garmin PowerSwitch on the MilSpec Designs plate and I am as happy as a pig in poo.

I have to agree about the cheap toggle switches...they wear out and loose their tactile click...so I use the app which has worked for me...

 

[Jhbryaniv]

I guess I should update here with my 4th (and hopefully final) iteration of my switches. I had the Lightforce panel and switches, but I was fed up with the amount of wiring in the truck. So... I ordered the PowerSwitch and got to work. Mounted to the MilSpec plate, with a negative ground panel and my master breaker for the ARB compressor.

mounted in the truck. Wiring has been cleaned up from here.

This is the wire I was able to remove from the truck.

I can't recommend the PowerSwitch enough. It makes the install ridiculously easy. All connections are fused and relayed at the device. Its controlled by your phone and has CarPlay/Android Auto integration. There are physical buttons on the unit itself, if you're concerned about redundancy.

You can create custom buttons to turn on/off multiple items with a single button. You can use trigger wires to control functions (running lights with switched power, turn on lights with the brights).

Does it trigger the different built in strobe functions etc of the chase light bar?

I meant to ask this yesterday. ?

 

[Colo_Ranger]

Does it trigger the different built in strobe functions etc of the chase light bar?

I meant to ask this yesterday. ?

What light bar so you have for the strobing? It allows you to set a strobe pattern, but if the strobe is built in to the light bar, you'd have to only use the Garmin for on/off.

 

[Jhbryaniv]

What light bar so you have for the strobing? It allows you to set a strobe pattern, but if the strobe is built in to the light bar, you'd have to only use the Garmin for on/off.

Same one as you... 36" Chase Light Bar by xprite or xbeote whatever it's called. ?

The yellow has a few patterns you trigger from the switch, I believe it's a momentary voltage change of an input to switch pattern...

 

[Colo_Ranger]

Same one as you... 36" Chase Light Bar by xprite or xbeote whatever it's called. ?

The yellow has a few patterns you trigger from the switch, I believe it's a momentary voltage change of an input to switch pattern...

If you have the same switch I had, you could use the on/off of the Garmin, but I don't know how you'd change between the strobe patterns. That seems to be handled by their internal logic board.

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