Lights & wiring question

[pheesh]

OK. Getting ready to add some lights attached to my CK30 ROPS. I've picked up 3 55 watt 12v lights, 2 for facing front, 1 facing back. According to my calculations max draw from that is just shy of 14 amps. I'd like to split out the two directions, each with its own switch.

Poking around here, I found two previous posts:

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/kioti-owning-operating/58467-aux-electric.html

and

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/kioti-owning-operating/47429-work-lights-ck30-ck25.html

On the fuse box, there is a customer use fuse and a work light fuse.

Here are the questions:

Is the customer use fuse only on with the key or always?

Where can you get access to the customer use fuse?

The worklight fuse is 25 amps (i think), what is on that by default and does it have room for two 55 watt lights?

Where can you tap into the worklight circuit?

One of the previous posts mentions some plugs tucked up under the fender on the CK30, but I only see stuff that ties into the taillights.

Any help is appreciated, and of course there will be pictures

Doug

 

[RedRocker]

Let me know if you ever find that lead.

 

[rmahlert]

OK. Getting ready to add some lights attached to my CK30 ROPS. I've picked up 3 55 watt 12v lights, 2 for facing front, 1 facing back. According to my calculations max draw from that is just shy of 14 amps. I'd like to split out the two directions, each with its own switch.

Poking around here, I found two previous posts:

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/kioti-owning-operating/58467-aux-electric.html

and

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/kioti-owning-operating/47429-work-lights-ck30-ck25.html

On the fuse box, there is a customer use fuse and a work light fuse.

Here are the questions:

Is the customer use fuse only on with the key or always?

Where can you get access to the customer use fuse?

The worklight fuse is 25 amps (i think), what is on that by default and does it have room for two 55 watt lights?

Where can you tap into the worklight circuit?

One of the previous posts mentions some plugs tucked up under the fender on the CK30, but I only see stuff that ties into the taillights.

Any help is appreciated, and of course there will be pictures

Doug

Funny, I've been working on this for my ck25. I was waiting until I was finished before posting it.

Here is what I've got so far.. I found 2 live connection on the back of my CK 25. I'll have to look later, but it popped the 7.5 fuse.. second one from the bottom of the fuse block if I remember. I just found my multimeter last night, so I still need to check the line to see what it has.

The wires are black and red, one each male/female bullet connectors. Looking the back of the ck25, they are on the right side under the tool box. (I also found a second ground in the middle plus 2 other lines on the left side, yellow? and brown?. These other two had no power, but I just connected the light to test)
Down below the black and red bullets that have power, in back behind the hydraulic connectors is another live black and red wire. But, they have a connector on them I wasn't able to find in any auto part stores. This is the one I popped the fuse on, which I think was the work light fuse.

The store only had one 55 watt light, but I did a test connection on the bullet connectors and it lit the light with no issue. I also plan to have 3 lights if possible.

I'll try to take some pictures of what I have done so far tonight after work and check with the multimeter.

RobM

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[rmahlert]

Here are 2 pics I just took of the location of the wires I found.

 

[KiotiDave]

Hi,
If you follow that harness a little further to the left side you will find a brown/white tracer and a black. This pair will be live when you turn on your headlite switch(key on). Unfortunately I would question how much current this wire can handle (20ga). I would suggest a feed off the battery cable on the starter terminal with an inline fuse and a seperate switch. The starter terminal will make the distance shorter for running wire and has all the amperage you will need and will not effect the starters performance.
Good luck.
KiotiDave

 

[rmahlert]

Attached is a pic with the wires Dave mentioned. I've connected my one light to this for now. Picture was taken in the dark with some spot lights on the tractor, not the greatest quality.

For some corrections to my earlier post, the red & black wires with the bullet connectors is red w/green tracer. I couldn't get into the other wires below it to see if it had any tracer colors.

I'm debating using the red w/green tracer & black wires for the back set of lights and placing the front facing lights on the brown w/white tracer & Black set. That is IF the wire can handle the lights

 

[pheesh]

OK, finally got it done.

I ended up wiring to the existing bullet connectors on the back of the tractor. The rear facing light is wired into the brown/white set and the two fronts are wired to the red & green set. The brown and white wires are hooked into the main light switch, so in order for the light to turn on, the headlights have to be on. The two fronts are independent, but the key does have to be on. I've run them for about 5 hours solid with no problems, felt the wires and nothing seemed too hot or near melting. No fuses popped either

They both are controller by some rubber booted toggle switches I mounted on the slant in front of the seat (sorry, no pic).

The bolts that go around the ROPS are 2 inch leaf spring bolts I picked up at an auto parts store. Gave everything metal a coat of Machinery Gray Duplicolor. For the record the trim seems to be actually Charcoal gray.

 

[randot]

How well do the lights help and how much output do you get from them? I rigged mine almost the same, but I used some old driving and fog lamps. They are plenty bright, but the patterns they produce are not useful at all.

 

[TractorLegend]

Let there be light

 

[williekioti]

Must be the season to add light to the CK. Here was my solution, nothing earth-shattering here. Looks similar to the others' approach. I did not wire into those connections in the back harness though. Did not like not knowing what else was on those circuits, electric draw was a concern. So I ran a lead from from the fuse box, in line fuse and wired to a switch mounted below ignition on panel(even has a little red LED to indicate on ). Circuit is only hot with Acc. or On with switch. Seemed to work well. Have yet to add one more light for rear facing, may tap into the described existing rear bullet connectors for it.