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Originally Posted by VPuppy
You may want to replace that 16 gauge ground wire with the same gauge as the power wires or lower. A rule of thumb is to always the use same or thicker wire than your power wires.
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Since the ground wires only have to run about 2 feet from the lights to the frame at most, I didn't think they would need to be as big of a guage. The power wires run almost 15 feet from the fuse box to the relay through the firewall out to the bumper and finally to each of the lights. That's a lot more than the ground.
Plus the only thing open when I went out to get the wires was walmart and the only thing they had was 14 guage in red, and 16 in black, soooo that's what I chose, mostly because I wanted it to be obvious which wire was which and didn't want to get lost in the future trying to sort them out. I suppose that was lazy, but so far so good. The lights are working great, and no problems with the wiring harness getting hot or melting.
