Switch Box gen I
February 17 2010 | Posted in: ElectricalMy first switchbox I ever ran was bought off of one of the Jeep/XJ message boards. It was made by a member on there that no longer makes these. It was made from 1 piece of metal that was bent and welded together. It also came predrilled with 7 holes for the switches. I ran over to the local auto parts store and picked up 7 switches of different colors.
The switches controlled the following:
- ARB Pump
- ARB Rear Locker
- ARB Front Locker
- Bumper-mounted Fog Lights
- Roof Rack Lights (outside 2)
- Roof Rack Lights (inside 2)
- Not used
The switches controlled the accessories through my relay box.
The only issue I had was with the switches I used. They were rather deep and required me to cut out part of my headliner to get the wiring to fit.
Pics (PLEASE excuse the hack wiring. I’ve since gotten better 
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After 2 months of running this setup, I pulled it down to do some tweaking to it. Well when I pushed everything back up into the headliner, I got lucky … in a way. Because of the limited space, one of the signal wires touched the power in terminals, thus cutting on a pair of my roof rack lights. Lucky for me, the battery died before any real damage occurred:
That’s when I decided to go with a different switch box setup. The box I had bought was excellent, I just wanted/needed a little more space. The writeup on the gen II switch box can be found HERE.
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