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Found superfast matt's video on wiring. His approach is very clean, BUT everything he uses is a million dollars to ship/import to my country. Your approach uses stuff I can source locally and still be happy with the result. Doing a total rewire of a car where the loom has been hacked to pieces.

@BadLuckGarage

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing!

@hankbagrowski7356

Жыл бұрын

Great video! I just subscribed! I am also subscribed to Superfast Matt's channel and it is a great resource of useful information. His straight forward approach and breaking systems down makes it easy for the diy builder and pro alike.

@bass2762

13 күн бұрын

I mean yeah, you usually don't have to use exactly what the videos use to get similar results. Just use the video as sort of a guide as to what direction you should go and use things that are good for your budget and standards.

I like how he still keeps it real! Working on a vet with budget tools and supplies! No false illusion of wealth

@BadLuckGarage

4 жыл бұрын

This vette ain’t really my thing brother. That’s why it’s been sitting in the yard for the last 6 months while we’ve been working in the Chaos Theory Camaro. 🤣

One of the best wireing videos I’ve seen in a while! Down to earth, and to the point! Thanks for sharing!

@BadLuckGarage

5 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

All else aside in jealous of this Relay panel... Looks way cleaner and more professional than anything I ever installed... Good job

@BadLuckGarage

5 жыл бұрын

Yea I’m out here right now trying to unscrew the temporary wiring I had put in place just to get the nitrous working. Lol

i know its been al most a year, but dude you helped me save my sanity lol. i figure it all out just by watching this video.

@BadLuckGarage

4 жыл бұрын

Hello Adenkane Isme, Thanks for watching! Im glad this video helped you out!

I've been surching youtube for 3 days now just so I can find out how to wire up a relay switch board and this vid has helped me so much you would not belive. Keep up the good work my man🤙👍👍👍👍

@BadLuckGarage

4 жыл бұрын

That’s awesome brother! I’m glad to hear this video helped. If you could, please share it on social media so maybe the next person will find it easier! 👍🏻

great video! thank you for your commitment on your channel helping people out

@BadLuckGarage

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching, and for the comment! 👍🏻

This video helped me understand how the relay works, how small amps can trigger the run of a large amp device. Thank you so much!

@BadLuckGarage

5 ай бұрын

Glad it helped

Awesome video! Thank you for this! Very Informative, idiot proof and user friendly. Keep them coming.

@BadLuckGarage

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks brother. Glad you found it helpfull

Great explanation of your relay panel!

@BadLuckGarage

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you sir!

Very nice set up Great job👍

This was super helpful man! 🙌Thanks so much!!

@BadLuckGarage

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching and commenting! Glad this helped you out!

You made it very easy 😊 . Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

@BadLuckGarage

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure 😊

great video as usual looks very clean and professionally done and very easy to comprehend instructions!!

@BadLuckGarage

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks brother. I hope it was clear enough. I always feel like I'm not explaining well enough.😔

@williamcordle-FLman

5 жыл бұрын

Bad Luck Garage well You can’t hold everyone’s hand plus if they can’t follow your basic instructions they probably don’t need to be wiring things up to begin with if ya follow me your pretty good at breaking it down into laymen’s terms not sure if it’s we’re both southerners or just your that good 👍🏻 but I believe most people should be able to get the just of it

@BadLuckGarage

5 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Another awesome video.. keep up the great work! Thx again brother!

@BadLuckGarage

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you sir! Please be sure to share on social media if you think it can help others! It also helps the channel grow!

You're the best, this changes how i was going to do everything. Thanks brother!

Nice video and nice explanation, God bless you

@BadLuckGarage

Жыл бұрын

So nice of you

thanks man, good video, nice work

Fantastic video!

@BadLuckGarage

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks brother. I tried to make it as simplified as I could.

Damn that looks good! Good idea as well!

Nice job I really liked that idea. Thanks'

Looks good! I did the same thing for my car only i used a piece of ABS plastic to mount it all to!

@BadLuckGarage

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks brother. Like I said in the video I actually have a piece of 1/4” thick plastic I plan to replace it with but just didn’t have a way to cut it at the time. I’ll probably take it to my uncles house and cut it out this weekend. 😉

Good Stuff & Great Tips 👍 Thanks!

@BadLuckGarage

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and commenting Darryl!

Great vid!

Learned alot from this channel helped me on my ls swapped cutlass got it on my channel 💪🏽 thanks BLG

@BadLuckGarage

2 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear it

This is really good. I prefer using plastic vs metal for the panel anyway. Just seems to make sense with electrical.

You could make and sell them things looks good . Keep up the good work brother

@BadLuckGarage

5 жыл бұрын

Probably could but I'm more about just helping others learn how to build it themselves. 😉

Neat and great job bro 👏

Great vid man thanks! Also, nice editing, I enjoyed the song around minute 15:00 and how you seemed to match it to you.

@BadLuckGarage

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed!

Awesome brother that looks really nice and appreciate the video now I can hook up a fuse panel 1 day soon

@BadLuckGarage

5 жыл бұрын

I hope it helps somebody. I’ve got about 4 hours+ in that video after editing. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍🏻

@jasoncameron34

5 жыл бұрын

@@BadLuckGarage I'm sure it will brother I shared it on Facebook so it will help

@BadLuckGarage

5 жыл бұрын

I really appreciate that brother.

@jasoncameron34

5 жыл бұрын

@@BadLuckGarage I know you do why I do it bud

I love video in how design the panel. You’re very

@BadLuckGarage

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you sir.

Great intell on the relay

@BadLuckGarage

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you sir! Hoping it was understandable at least,lol.

The nice thing about the panel you used is that it's Single Point Ground, much nicer, easier to troubleshoot than grounds all over the place at the source.

@BadLuckGarage

5 жыл бұрын

Yea most of the others I’ve seen just use another buss bar for grounds but this fuse block eliminates the need for a 2nd bar and saves space while simplifying everything. 👍🏻

Cool I'll be watching for it TY

@BadLuckGarage

3 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/poCt2dVrfJm5Zs4.html

I'll be building 1 soon going to use to clean up wiring on s10 after ls install TY for great information

@BadLuckGarage

3 жыл бұрын

I’ll be dropping a video probably late tonight showing an even nicer option as long as you don’t need more than 6 relays and fuses.

Thanks for the video.

@BadLuckGarage

2 жыл бұрын

You bet

Nice job.

@BadLuckGarage

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you sir. This is just the basics but I thought it might help some people out. 👍🏻

THANK YOU .. SOOO MUCH .. I LEARNT SO MUCH BRO

@BadLuckGarage

4 жыл бұрын

Glad the video helped brother.

Well explained.

@BadLuckGarage

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you sir. I do what I can. 👍🏻

Like clean job

@BadLuckGarage

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks brother. Could have been a little more neat with it, but it’ll get the job done for 90% of people watching. 😉👍🏻

You can also hook the white and yellow together to 12v and use the black for a negative turn on.

Great job . I would like to see the end result

@BadLuckGarage

3 жыл бұрын

Then check out the Chinavette playlist.😉

love it!

@BadLuckGarage

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks brother. Hopefully it helps some people out with the basics.

@jeffgoins4215

4 жыл бұрын

@@BadLuckGarage done every thing like yours no power from relays.

@BadLuckGarage

4 жыл бұрын

@Jeff Goins Then you obviously DIDNT do everything like mine or you WOULD have power from the relays. Lol. Seriously though, you obviously crossed something up if it’s not working brother. I’ve built dozens of these without any issues. Go back and recheck your work.

It would be good to explain the difference between positive triggering the relays, and negative/ground triggering like many fan triggers. But overall great video!

looks good

@BadLuckGarage

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you sir!

I’m working on my old Ford F-250 and long story short I’ve used a thin Teflon cutting board to mount some of my electric components it’s about 1/8 inch thick and might work in some instances for you.

@BadLuckGarage

4 жыл бұрын

Yes sir. Any hard plastic will work for sure!👍🏻

Liked and subed

@BadLuckGarage

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks brother. Hopefully you'll find some more helpful videos.....or at least some entertaining ones depending on which playlists you look at, lol.

Great video. I have a question if I’m running an electric fan and I need to connect 85 on the relay to a temperature switch. Do I need to run a secondary ground from the fuse panel thats already grounded? Sorry if it’s a dumb question

Now that is how you build a relay panel!

@BadLuckGarage

5 жыл бұрын

And on the cheap, lol.

@pushrodgarage8716

5 жыл бұрын

You can’t beat that! I need to build something like this. I’ve got a spaghetti monster behind my kick panel that I’ve been ignoring.

@BadLuckGarage

5 жыл бұрын

@@pushrodgarage8716 yea I just got in a hurry to get to the track and all the parts for the panel weren't here yet so I just threw some crap together. Now I'm finally getting around to building this panel and getting everything sorted correctly,lol.

@pushrodgarage8716

5 жыл бұрын

That’s the fun part of building these things. Gotta slap them together so you can play with them and then go back and fix it up right. Haha for a while I was running my fans by plugging and pulling the fuse. No switches or anything.

@BadLuckGarage

5 жыл бұрын

lol, been there, done that brother!👊

I like so much i realy appriciate it ❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉

Very excellent video. Would you please show how you wire the switches from the panel. That's there only part I'm uncertain about.

@BadLuckGarage

2 жыл бұрын

Switches go to the white wires as explained at the 11:16 mark in the video and explained in even more detail at the 20:10 mark in the video.

Thanks man. I'm an electrical dumbass and this made perfect sense👍👍

@BadLuckGarage

5 жыл бұрын

Glad the video helped out brother. 👍🏻

Nice job explaining the relay panel, but my question is, do you alway need a relay? like for interior, lights or an exterior light or a light in the back of a pick up. can you not just run straight from the battery to the switch without a relay and have it hot at the switch all the time?

high, great video, i have a question if you don't mind, my truck is 24v & i want to run some extras that are 12v like spotlights ect, so do i need some kind of inverter relay switch or no?

I do resedential elec and I always like to over gauge the ower source but I dont do auto elec so Im not familiar with sizing the gauge of say 100 amps 10'

Where did you put the relay links? I saw the other links but not the relay links. Thank you.

Hi there! Are terminal blocks rated 15amp per circuit or per block?

👍👍👍

The negative post on the fuse block, does it have to go to the negative terminal on the battery or can it go to chassis ground?

Just made and installed your type relay. Thanks for the knowledge you provided. You sir made it very understandable, no off the wall B.S. There is just 1 question I have. Thinking about putting lighted toggle switches in. (5 in unit) They have 2 hot wires,are these only for the power lights on switches? Do I have to wire something differently? Please respond. You are the MASTER. Thanks.

@BadLuckGarage

2 жыл бұрын

One is for the light, the other is for the accessory.

Nice job

@BadLuckGarage

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you sir.

Good vid. Cannot find relays with more than a 5" lead...

THANKS.

@BadLuckGarage

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

Hello great video just a little confused on how to you would hook up a switch to this for off road lights

@BadLuckGarage

2 жыл бұрын

Switches to white wires, Yellow wires out to accessory(lights) as explained in the video.

I have a 2014 Chev Cruze and my horn want blow the fuse is good but I can't find the relay switch can you please HELP ME!!!!!!!!!

Hey. Excellent video and built. But I have a few questions. Im still learning in automotive electrical. The question is, can I use a relay, to power the fuse box, and powered the other relays? This is the order: Battery>Circuit breaker>relay (swithed from ignition) >fuse box>relay (switch from swith to control a pair of foglight) >device. I hope you understand. Thank you

@BadLuckGarage

4 жыл бұрын

You would need a fairly large solid state relay if you wanted to wire it that way. The way it’s wired in the video none of the relays will have any power to them until you turn the switches on to lower them anyway. And your switches should be from an ignition hot anyway in most cases. So I wouldn’t worry about running a relay to the panel. If anything I would just run a large circuit breaker in between the battery and the power lead to the fuse box for added protection if you’re worried about moisture exposure or something of that nature.

Pretty cool, awesome work, so what you build is known in almost all the new cars this days are known as a IPDM ( Intelligent Power Distribution Module ) keep up the good work.

@BadLuckGarage

5 жыл бұрын

LOL, yea leave it to a car manufacturer to come up with an over complicated sounding name for a simply device. It’s like calling a garbage man a waste management proffessional or a janitor a sanitation engineer. Or in my case, calling a bug man a Pest Elimination Specialist. 🤣

Wire colors are different on different brands of relays, as you stated. Be very aware of the actual pins, so working with the numbers *(86,30...) makes sense.

@BadLuckGarage

3 жыл бұрын

I agree with you 100%. But what you have to realize is on KZread there are people with varying attention spans and varying ability to learn. So I try to simplify for those who don’t pick up on things easily. Once the relays are bolted down all in the same direction it makes it easier to just say “the top wire goes here, the bottom wire goes here, etc.” That way everyone can follow without getting confused. Take a look at some of the comments and questions on this video and you’ll see where I’m coming from. This isn’t rocket science, but for some people it may feel that way and that’s why I over-explain and over simplify things.

@Bwatt5000

Жыл бұрын

Agreed. It’s a great video but I feel mentioning the numbers even once, would have been super simple and beneficial..respect the simplicity aspect but accuracy is key so be nice to double check and confirm these colored wires are at the correct locations. Anyway, great vid

you are great

@BadLuckGarage

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the compliment. I do what I can brother.

@srtcodesnake496

4 жыл бұрын

@@BadLuckGarage you do everything step by step and you are best of the best even i did`t learning good english but i understand from you and i`m waiting the new things from you thank you so much

Great video I see you fused the incoming power to the relay but my question is should you fuse the trigger wire also from the switch this is where it is getting confusing when I watch other videos from what I see some used double fuses one for the incoming power to the relay and then the other fuse on the switch side

@BadLuckGarage

2 жыл бұрын

Your switches will use a 12v key on source which should already be fused. if you decide to pull switch power from a constant 12v source then you should have that source fused as well. But all that should occur BEFORE the switches and has nothing to do with this accessory panel. If you just wanted to loop switch power through the fuse block on the relay panel of course you could just get a larger fuse block and do that, but in my opinion that’s just over complicating this entire thing. Especially since your switches don’t require much power anyway and can share a single power source to simplify wiring.

@frankpaglianite4158

2 жыл бұрын

@@BadLuckGarage Thanks for clearing that up. I follow what you are doing. I will be using it for a sxs and was not clear on fusing the switches. But that makes sense to use a separate fused power source for the switch’s as the relay coils do not use much amps. Thanks again

I hope you put some thought into a ‘quick release’ to make battery swaps easy...

@BadLuckGarage

5 жыл бұрын

covered that in the video brother...you gotta watch the whole thing or you miss the details. 😉

Great walk through! Question, what do you use for trigger? Do you tap into an existing fuse? Does each relay get a separate source? Thank you!

@BadLuckGarage

3 жыл бұрын

I’m sorry brother, but I don’t fully understand your question. The “trigger” is just another term for whatever switch you use to turn on a relay.

@mariochingon3842

3 жыл бұрын

@@BadLuckGarage correct, lol. do you use the same one for all relays or different one for each relay?

I want to make something like this for my truck to add a led light strip and a 12v power supply to the truck bed. Is the gauge wire on the relay plugs enough. Any tips is much appreciated.

@BadLuckGarage

4 жыл бұрын

Hello Jason. Your wire gauge should be based on the power usage of the device you are powering. There are charts you can find through google that will suggest which gauge wire to use based on amperage and length of wire. But for the most part, if your device fits within the 40 amp specifications of these relays, then the wire they come with should be fine. If you are pushing close to 40 amps or more then I like to simply split the lid between two relays.

I know this is an older video but I followed your video to the T and I build my panel just like yours and I bought everything brand new but my LEDs flicker for some reason but if I hook them up straight to battery the work fine and if I hook them up to the headlights they work fine but when I hook them up to my panel just like yours they flicker so any ideas????

@BadLuckGarage

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like you’ve either got a bad relay or you didn’t quit follow these instructions as well as you thought. If you built this exactly as shown, and your parts and connections are good, then it would function just as perfectly as this one does. 👍

So at Walmart you can get plastic cutting boards made of acrylic plasticity stuff for all of around a dollar. I used them for 6.5 speaker adapter for my car doors. Easily cut with a dremel or jigsaw etc...

@BadLuckGarage

4 жыл бұрын

Great tip brother! Thanks for letting everyone know! I’m gonna pin this comment!

@luvdady

4 жыл бұрын

@@BadLuckGarage ty. Just trying to help out others, and great video btw

Would I just connect the power wire to the relay box and the ground wire to the same spot where everything else is grounded? Meaning would I ground every accessory together to that same spot and connect the power wire to the relay fuse box? Love the build! Happy New year!

@BadLuckGarage

4 жыл бұрын

Yes you can use a common ground.

Good video, I also have a video on building a 8 relay panel

@red2965

4 жыл бұрын

Should have added the link

This is exactly what Ive been looking for, so Im going to put it on my firewall about 10' from the battery can you recommend the gauge of wire I should use? Tanks bro

@BadLuckGarage

Жыл бұрын

What gauge main power and ground you need will depend on your total amp load of all accessories.

I need to build a setup like this for my truck to run all my accessories like light bars, leds,led fog lights,back up led lights,amp cooling fans and so on! But does it matter if the terminal blocks are 15 amp or 25 amp?

@BadLuckGarage

3 жыл бұрын

Depends on the amperage needs of your accessories. Just remember on a divorced terminal block such as the one used in this video, the amperage is rated PER TERMINAL, not total terminals. So each terminal can handle x amount of amps since they’re not connected to each other. So if it’s a 25amp block, it can handle 25 amps per terminal. If the accessory you’re powering needs 40amps, just split the load between two terminals on that accessory. If you need more terminals to do it that way then either order a block with more terminals or order a higher rated block. 👍

Don’t you need to hook up the ground from the output too? Would there be a wire from the relay as well as the output device on the fuse panel?

@BadLuckGarage

3 ай бұрын

Sounds like you need to watch the video again brother.

What size wire and fuse do you run to the battery and why? Ive seen other videos where they used a 300A breaker, I dont get how you could draw that much current even if a fault occured, thanks.

@tayloreverett6975

3 жыл бұрын

A couple months ago a KZread channel by the name of “Overland Bound” upload a video kind of like this and said “ that the large breaker is to handle all types of current from fridges to spotlights and other accessories”. I hope this helps.

😎

@BadLuckGarage

5 жыл бұрын

.👍

Dude don’t sweat it. That looks a hell of a lot better then the factory spaghetti mess.

Instead of several relays which are ignitioned triggered, why not to add just one giant 200A relay and let this control an extra fuse box. This wiring will be ignition triggered and attached to this fuse box are components like power windows, headlights, turn signals, horn, radiator fan, fuel pump etc. Will this work?

@BadLuckGarage

4 ай бұрын

Yep

Can you power on a light bar relay from two different switches in the vehicle driver area and the back of the vehicle aka trailer/rv

@BadLuckGarage

2 жыл бұрын

Yes. Run the switches to the white wire for the relay you have designated for that particular light

As opposed to pulling the center wire, could I just buy a 4-pin relay? On eBay amongst the products from your link there is one. Looks like the 5 pin, just without the center wire?

@BadLuckGarage

4 жыл бұрын

Yes

I am lost on how to hook up a rocker switch to the bus block. Can you please help me with this

@BadLuckGarage

3 жыл бұрын

The wire coming from your switch is the trigger wire that I refer to in the video.

Nice ideas for wiring. What song is that at 17:00?

@BadLuckGarage

4 жыл бұрын

Just some attribute free music from the audio library. This videos almost a year old now so don’t really remember specifically.

Are the Relays with 12" leads still available? I could not find a link. Thanks. Great Vid!

@BadLuckGarage

2 жыл бұрын

No. That’s why I removed the link. Most manufacturers have gone to the shorter leads now you if you need them longer you just have to crimp new terminals on longer wires. At least that’s what Ive been doing the last couple years.

@tombackes9557

2 жыл бұрын

@@BadLuckGarage Thank you for the quick response. I can unpin the plug and add longer wires with female ends.. After I replied to your vid. I found an Amazon site that sells just the plug with 12" leads. Thanks again. Keep up the excellent videos.

@al5608

2 жыл бұрын

@@tombackes9557 do you have a link to those 12” leads. I know it’s been a while, can’t find them anywhere

I want to turn on everything with a toggle switch how would I wire that.???😁👍🏁

@BadLuckGarage

5 жыл бұрын

Daisy chain the switch to all relays

Can u get the fuse block with more fuses for a 8 switch panel?

@BadLuckGarage

4 жыл бұрын

Yes. They make this same style block with the built in grounds in a 12 fuse style as well. This would give you the potential to add even more circuits at a later date.

What about a breaker between battery and fuse power in?

@BadLuckGarage

5 жыл бұрын

Couldn't hurt. Nothing wrong with a little extra precaution brother.👍

Ok so let’s say I just bought a brand new light bar and only has power and ground wires (no physical switch) I want to run a switch into my dash how would I hook it up to a setup such as this one. Thank you

@BadLuckGarage

3 жыл бұрын

You would hook it up exactly as described in the video.

How would you connect this panel to your key on ignition switch if that makes sense? I want to use this to connect fans and a few other things.

@BadLuckGarage

5 жыл бұрын

The power for your switches to activate each relay will come from the ignition. Or you can run a master relay for the main power feed going into the panel.

@supreme2544

5 жыл бұрын

You could just wire the fan to a switch to save messing with ignition. But he’s right, you find the ignition wire that goes hot when key on.

How have these parts held up? Looking to make a relay but I’m concerned about the quality of cheaper parts like eBay stuff.

@BadLuckGarage

5 жыл бұрын

Still working great

Sorry for the stupid question but is the yellow wire on the 30 or 87 terminal?

@BadLuckGarage

Жыл бұрын

87

That relay setup looks great.. nova swap videos should be coming in a couple weeks I assume? That asshole jack frost dumped a 4 inch load on us this morning.. Wheres the heat miser?, someone wake his ass up!

@BadLuckGarage

5 жыл бұрын

I’m hoping to start on it soon. I’ve gotta get this Z28 out of the driveway first but Rays ready to bring the Nova over anytime I’m ready. 👍🏻

You said " A load from lots of different sources" hehehehe

@BadLuckGarage

5 жыл бұрын

LMFAO! Get your mind outta the gutter Zane! 😜

@zanehobbs8618

5 жыл бұрын

Is there any other place for a mind to reside in this day and age.... Lol

@BadLuckGarage

5 жыл бұрын

no not really.😜

Stupid question butt what two wires do i connect to the yellow and white.... power from the Accessory to the yellow and what goes to the white

@BadLuckGarage

4 жыл бұрын

Covered in the video.