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Absolutely! Let us know when you’re ready, they are on the website, and a few are on sale!

You are very right, the factory fuse box and its main power cable are designed for your factory loads, NOT your 400A winch and 100A switching system. We have heard of two people blowing their fuse while winching and were left stranded. No winch, no engine, and a very expense tow bill, as you can imagine being that they were winching.

Do yall know by chance (or have a way of finding) at what amperage (max) the 12v battery can be charged from hybrid high voltage converter since no alternator ? Curious how much amps we can safely pull on a consistent basis from 12v without running into issues. Gonna need winch, lights and dc to dc charging for trailer/secondary battery. Keep up with great videos!

It happens lol

Shots fired lol

25 dollars or so.

Thank you! Belongs to our buddy Josh, The Dark Yota on socials

Yes the warn VR evo 12k pulls just shy of 400 amps at stall! That is true for the vast majority of winches on the market.

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I'd use 02 to be safe

Which cable are you referring to? There is no 8awg cable in this video that we refer to.

@@BlazeOffRoad the one going to the relay box looks about 8awg. I'm supporting your point not arguing against it.

Yes! Far cheaper than the $3,500 competitor that everyone is currently using for racing down in Baja! Also, with far more features than the other units!

@@BlazeOffRoadI’m guessing it doesn’t do turn by turn voice directions? I kinda want a Montana 700i (just returned mine for the time being) mixed with DriveSmart86 (I’m going to put this in my mothers car when I get the Pioneer). I’m thinking I’ll just have do two devices unfortunately. Now if only they would interface with my Escort Maxcam360C, but that would be redundant, still would be cool. Garmin is still king of pure GPSS for the everyday person. I’m putting an AVIC-W8600NEX (this and the Escort DO interface 🙂) in my Car, but I want everything now. 😂 I need to upgrade my Garmin Watch AGAIN. But when I want a new watch Garmin comes out with Descent Mk3i 51, I suppose it’s good I didn’t spring for the Mk2i 51 ⌚️The first Garmin I bought for snowmobiling (GPSMAP 62ST) is still going, but I need to replace the AA battery contact set because Alkaline batteries broke one positive terminal (10 min fix).

They are becoming very popular!

Thank you!

It’s unbelievable how quick you can get this kit installed yourself!

Unfortunately the hybrid will have the battery in the rear and will be a far more expensive and difficult install.

@@BlazeOffRoadbasically ur saying don’t put lights on a Land Cruiser or new 4Runner?

@@bobs619 nope, saying that the install will be much more invasive as you have to route cables from the batteries to under the hood like we have to do on the the Tundras. The non-hybrid tundra is about a $800 kit, the hybrid one is closer to $2,000 since you have to use the SDHQ power relocation kit.

@@BlazeOffRoad cool bro! Look forward to your lc250 kit.

Our products make DIY install VERY easy!

Those are controlled by the PowerSwitch as well!

They are awesome units!

We have a kit on our website for you actually! If you scroll on the home page it’s listed under top products👌

That BCDC 1250D is the move when you go lithium and start using high draw products like Starlink!

Sounds like a sweet system! We will be doing the antigravity 300ah battery in our new F250 and are very excited about that.

Thank you!

I mean sure, or you can see more when out on a S&R run, or while off-roading. These are 100% not used when there are people around, or on the road.

@@BlazeOffRoad tell that to everyone else with a light bar

@@garettanderson5056 no thanks, our friends only use their lights off-road. You can let everyone else know though!

Well thanks for the opinion! 🤘

Unfortunately we see it a lot.

Very fair!

Oh he will be getting one!

Starting your car uses the motor ground, not this body ground. You can easily overload this when a winch pulls 400amps, most of our customers have a 50amp charge controller, and at least 50 amps in lights. this is a 10-6awg cable on most of these Toyotas, well under sized. Go straight to the battery.

Where do holes need drilled? We definitely aren’t saying to drill any holes 🤔

He's saying don't stack extras on the factory one. Make your own

Exactly, and this cable is sized to handle the factory systems, NOT those plus a 400amp winch, 50amp charge controller, an 80amp air compressor, and another 40-80 amps in off-road lights.

Pretty close, yea. Really we are saying to simply go straight to the battery. The bolt isn’t the issue here, the cable size is!

We try💁‍♂️

Coming soon! 🔥🔥

I can’t wait to drop off my gen 2 raptor get lights work done

We have a harness coming for that right now in our Backbone harness series. It is designed to run one harness up the windshield in a wire hider, then plug accessory harnesses into that. Currently we offer light bar and chase light harnesses for this kit, and have scene lighting harnesses coming as well!

Yeah we love the panels, they have been amazing, and so convenient! Also, You’ll like their announcement later this year then 😉

It happens🤷‍♂️

Our Toyota single Garmin kit does work on the gen2 Tundra! You just use riv-nuts to get it installed is all, as we don’t like blocking the factory fuse box like other systems have done in the past.

Sorry, too busy wiring trucks🤷‍♂️

There’s a lot that could go wrong without our kits!

The Gen 2 Tundra install is almost identical to the Tacoma and 4Runner install, expect there are no factory mount points, so we recommend using Riv-Nuts for this install! We have had a number of customers go this route, with no issues.

@@BlazeOffRoad thank you for the info, much appreciate!!!

Florida tag, Florida boat ramp…

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After having more than a few issues reported from a number of customers we moved away from switch pros all together and no longer offer them. Reliability and quality is our top priority and unfortunately don’t feel comfortable offering products that can’t meet that standard.

I am currently running to Switch-Pros systems in two different vehicles, one of them for over eight years now. I have not had a single issue with the product. I am surprised to hear this. My experience has been the opposite of what you have been told. Darn it, I have a need for a third one right now in your product surely looked legit.

@@bobholthaus we sold many, and love the units. The pre-Covid models were very reliable! But unfortunately, after the hardware update around that time we saw a down-tick in reliability and move away from offering them.

@@BlazeOffRoadGlad to come across your video and comments. What would you consider to be the best alternative? I really wish Whelen would put a system out for the off-road/overland market. We have relied upon them in the public safety sector for decades.

@@Tigermeg816 the Garmin PowerSwitch or SPOD BantamX are both awesome units! For sure check out our article on the PowerSwitch under “news and how-tos” on our website.