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Well, at the moment they work as really good noise canceling headphones and a great Intercom system for the truck so you can carry on a conversation with your passenger at highway speeds. It works great for that. Augi made a cell phone to radio interface that works great so I can accept calls...
Just before I installed it, I noticed one of the switches had a loose contact. I couldn’t find any solder, said, “Eh, it’ll ride.”
It didnt. Started flickering after just a short time. So, down it comes. I believe this is a sign from God saying, “you got it this far, go ahead and install the...
That’s about it. I wired up the lights to the switches and ran a lead down to my power source behind the seat. And mounted it.
The final routing of the cables about as clean as you can get them
Notice the aluminum finish from beginning to end. I use a vibratory sander with 100 grit and make tiny circles, as tight as possible, then, experiment with sanding in large circles until every bit of shine is gone. Use a fan to blow the aluminum dust away as you do this.
I spent about 2-3 hours making a 7 relay board for the LED lights I’m planning on putting on the truck. Modern LEDs are draw so little power that relays aren’t really necessary, but, first, I wanted to clean up the electrical mess behind the seat
and second I wanted the LED light Wiring to...
Now to mount the radio, I had to move the crew boxes in a little to ensure stability, and in order to accommodate proper mounting, I welded an additional piece of 1” sq tube to the main frame to mount crew boxes farther in.
I drew outlines on the aluminum and secured aluminum to frame...
I’ll try to find the link to this LED light bar. It’s super bright easy to install and happens to be 12” (the exact width) and 12/24v too.
I had some really cool toggles with red spring loaded covers that I was going to use on another project, so, I put them here, can order more for the other...
Now for the electrical.
Red Light: your normal red marker light does not throw enough light to light up the cab sufficiently for “chips and salsa night ops” so, I removed the normal rubber light mount that comes with a full marker light and made my own. I have some LEDs that really are crazy...
Fit aluminum plate, lights (notice use of marker light for red light “night-ops” lighting ... more on this later) a white LED strip from Amazon that I’m very impressed with and Radio and use red marker to mark locations. Note shiny aluminum finish. I really like this thickness. It’s rigid, easy...
Last week I built an overhead console to hold:
* VIC 3 main box
* two crew boxes
* Augis phone to VIC-3 interface system
* Red overhead light (preserve night vision, for night ops, to get chips and salsa for the game)
* regular white overhead light (to get chips and salsa for the game, when...
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