Question on lighting

[Jay_r24]

Hey guys I have a question on my lighting situation. I have a 52" LED light bar (300w) and two pods (18w each) connected to my stock battery. I went wheeling with some friends at night and I need to add some rock lights, that's an additional 12W. Is this all too much for my stock battery? I use the lights probably a total of 3 hours a month if that!

 

[bigtrucker52]

Idk since i don't have any lights but from what i've heard it probably will. My suggestion is to get a dual battery tray with a secondary battery and just run the wires of all the aftermarket stuff to the secondary battery

 

[Petthefish]

Dual battery is the way to go

 

[Peak]

You'll be fine with your stock battery, but if you don't want to run a dual kit id upgrade to a deep cycle battery.

 

[RjSkippy]

Are you using a relay? You should be fine with one battery as long as you are running it through a relay and switches. Here is an article on a DYI that may interest you (there are other articles out there too on this topic):

http://wayalife.com/showthread.php?13119-DIY-Spod-Waytekwire&highlight=toggle

 

[huskerfan406]

You would be better off with 2 batteries but you can get by with just one deep cycle battery!