P500 For those that have added a bus bar under the hood.

[MarkAlan]

When you added a bus bar did you bring a plus 12 and ground from the battery or did you just bring a plus 12 and tie a negative to the frame?

I have one on order, and would like to use it to tie in lights, power steering and a volt meter etc. I would like to tie a winch to the hot power, and ground feed to the bus bar wen the time comes. I there a better way of doing this?

 

[Admin]

 

[Duckhunt]

You can go to frame as long you don't exceed the factory B- to Frame ground strap capacity. You could always run a second strap/cable from battery to frame near the battery then all your "front" accessories (and bus bar) can safely ground to frame. But at that point might just be easier to run another wire (neg) with your positive lead up front to your winch and/or bus bar.

For my winch & power steering I have both pos & neg run to battery. All other smaller accessories go to frame.

 

[MarkAlan]

Are you running a dual battery setup?

 

[lee]

With the frame having a joint under your feet, I would run the negative back to the battery.
At a minimum, run the negative back to the rear frame (and your almost back to the battery).

 

[Duckhunt]

Are you running a dual battery setup?

I am not currently. I always sort of had intentions to but haven’t needed one.

 

[PJ1]

My dealer installed winch had two wires to the battery. I installed bus bar under hood and lifted the winch leads for the bus bar. Then ran short cables back to the winch solenoid.

 

[spartner]

I ran two cables, one positive and one negative, to my winch. The Positive cable then goes from the wench to a buss bar under the hood to power everything else I add. I also have a second buss bar connected to the ignition power on attachment. All of the accessories I have added (LEDs, wench switch, GMRS radio, helmit defroster, etc) are all powered on through seperate relays activated from the ignition on buss bar that actually supply the power from the Battery buss bar to the accessory. Nothing can accidentally be left on and drain my battery. I've had it this way for a year and a half and had no issues.

 

[Mudder]

Just a positive cable here. 4 yrs and no issues. Running winch off it. Using Honda sub harness with 4 power leads for radio, horn and work light.

 

[MarkAlan]

I ended up doing a heavy power wire from the battery, and a heavy ground wire from the rear frame to under the hood. The hot went to a solenoid, and the other side went to a Blue Sea fuse box. I switched the solenoid with a key on wire from the honda harness. I connected my power steering to switched side of the solenoid, and lights to the fuse box. The fuse box has connection points remaining for additional upgrades.

 

[KYhillbilly]

I ran a positive and negative from battery to bus bar. just wanted to make sure I had a good ground but it shouldn't be necessary.

 

[MarkAlan]

I can see that. I have enough slack that if needed I could do the same. But so far I have not need to do it, and I placed the ground in the same location that Honda uses.