Wiring multiple LED lights

I mounted six of these LED lights on my Gobi rack, Is it better to wire them in a parallel or in series with one relay and one switch? Thanks in advance

 

There are calculators you can use to tell you:

https://faroutride.com/wire-calc/

Basically it’s a function of how many amps will be pulled (total on the circuit) and how long the wire runs will be (including negative side to the grounding point).

So, check the spec for amp draw on your lights x number of lights = total current draw. Then measure/estimate the total length of wire you’re using. That will allow you to determine what gauge wire you should need.

Running them in parallel would allow you to independently control them… but you’d need to run more wires. I’m guessing you’ll be able to easily run them all in series on one modestly sized wire. (Also, one larger gauge wire takes up less room than many smaller gauge wires for the same conductivity.)

 

To add to the above info tho OP, dont forget the underlying principle of each. If you run them all in parallel you can connect them all to their own individual switch, or connect each to a relay and all of those to one switch, but remembering that if one light fails all of the rest arent shot too. If theyre in series, you run the risk of losing the whole string if anything early on fails.

Food for thought

 

Did you ever get these wired up? How are they performing? Please post pics of them on the Gobi, and of the light they put out in front of your T4R.

 

I did, wired parallel to one switch and one relay. It works awesome, I was able to point them wherever I wanted, two as ditch lights, two forward of the ditch lights and two straight ahead. The mount on the gobi rack sits the lights higher than I wanted, I'm making modifications so they sit low like the ditch lights. Had to make simple brackets for the ditch lights,
Ditch light bracket