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Hi, what I would like to do is install a set of good driving lights (currently I only have the stock standard lights) for normal highway etc. driving, which is easy enough, however what I want to do is install a second set of lights (the first set are centred, the second set will be on the outside of the bullbar) that are wired into their own switch on the dashboard, fully independant of the other lights.

I want these lights simply to give me a very wide light coverage for when im checking stock at night (late work hours and long drive home ) and also, because about 40-ish % of my driving is done on windy gravel roads with thick scrub right at the edges of the road, I want to be able to flick on those lights when I need them to give me good coverage out past the edges of the road, to make find bouncing road blocks a tad easier (they are everywhere out where I live), and because (through experience with my dads ute, beautiful set of driving lights, good for highways etc., they are just no good for dark scrub driving...) navigating the winding road surrounded by scrub is difficult when the lights only point forward.

Anyhoo, long story short, is this easy enough to do, or is it going to be a fairly major exercise? Either way, I have plenty of time and tools, all I need is a good bit of advice as to how to go about it?

Thanks, and sorry for the ramble,
SSSM

Should be a fairly straight forward thing to do if your handy with a few tools and a test light? You have to ask yourself a few things beforehand though.. like do you want them to turn off with the ignition off like the standard lights? do you want them to be controlled by the highbeam switch? (if they are not controlled by high beam switch, it may be deamed illegal in some states)

in most states they have to be set up to go off when on low beam, and only work on high beam.
run a heavy wire from the battery through a 30 or 40 amp fuse, to the relay, and run a wire from the dipswitch to the trip on the relay.
if the wires feel warm they are too thin run thicker ones.
the relay will have a diagram showing the setup.
might even pay to run separate relays for each set of lights.