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Looking at wiring up my CB in my Ranger this weekend, and I figure if I'm gonna bother to do it, I should do it right.
I'm leaning toward adding a new fuse block under the hood, wired straight to the battery, which will also let me add a cigarette lighter (accessory port to the young kids) inside my center console for a phone charger, and leave me a couple more for any future modifications I may want to make. (Make sense?)
So...how do I size wiring for this kinda stuff? CB shouldn't draw more than 10 amps, I wouldn't think, and it looks like a standard cigarette lighter is 15 amps...who knows what else might get wired on there, though- additional bright lights? seat heaters? dashboard coffee pot?
I'm leaning toward adding a new fuse block under the hood, wired straight to the battery, which will also let me add a cigarette lighter (accessory port to the young kids) inside my center console for a phone charger, and leave me a couple more for any future modifications I may want to make. (Make sense?)
So...how do I size wiring for this kinda stuff? CB shouldn't draw more than 10 amps, I wouldn't think, and it looks like a standard cigarette lighter is 15 amps...who knows what else might get wired on there, though- additional bright lights? seat heaters? dashboard coffee pot?