Over that last week I was also able to wrap up the lighting system in the SmartCap. Following in the footsteps of several other builds I monitor on various forums, it turned to HardKorr to meet these needs. Their clean interfaces and flexibility were the main reasons I went with them. For my build I ordered three 48cm (19") light bars for the main cap area and two 25cm (10") light bars, one for each side.
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For anyone looking for the info, the cables on the 19" bars are 12" long and about 8" long on the 10" bars.
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These light bars come with built in magnets for mounting. You can see them between the black squares along the center line at either end of the bar.
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Four of the five bars that I order held really well via the magnets, but one of the 10" bars could barely support its own weight. I thought that was going to less than ideal in the offroad conditions I like to travel in, so I backed each bar with Velco. The Velco I had was a little too wide, so it had to be trimmed down to fit the width of the bar with a sharp razor blade.
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With the bars all prepped it was just a matter of mounting them where I wanted them and then running the cables back to the electrical half bin. The light bars are designed to use a cigarette light for power, so I had to chop those off to hard wire them into the Blue Sea Systems fuse block that I installed during this processes.
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I'm not 100% happy with some of the wiring, so I'll most like redo those parts when I have some more time. Otherwise, I'm pretty happy with the clean install and location of the controllers for each of the three sets of lights.
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