How to Wire Golf Cart Lights
It is a good idea to have lights on your golf cart in case you are out after dark and for safety reasons. After mounting the lights, you will need to know how to wire golf cart lights to the battery and a toggle switch so they will work. When you finish this project, you can drive your golf cart in the dark with no worries.
Items Needed:
- Lights
- Two mounting brackets and screws
- Drill and drill bits
- Inline fuse holder
- Solderless ring terminal
- Two butt connectors
- Insulated female spade terminal
- 16 gauge wire
- Wire Strippers
- Needle nose pliers
- Electrical tape
- Nylon tie
- Detach the negative terminal from all the batteries in the golf cart.
- Attach each headlight to a mounting bracket. Position the headlights on the bumper, drill the holes and screw the mounting brackets on the bumper.
- Decide where you want to install the toggle switch that activates the lights. Putting it close to the steering wheel will make it handy to turn on and off while driving.
- Drill a hole where you are placing the toggle switch. Make sure that your hole matches the size of the switch.
- Fasten one end of the inline fuse holder to the positive side of the battery terminal with a solderless ring terminal.
- Hold the inline fuse holder in your hand and fasten a butt connector on the opposite end.
- Join the fuse holder to the middle terminal on the switch with an insulated female spade terminal.
- Extend a 16 gauge wire from the toggle switch at the middle terminal to the lights. Join the wire to the lights with a solderless butt connector. Secure the connected wires with a tight wrap of electrical tape.
- Gather the wires and tie them together with a nylon tie.
- Position the toggle switch in the drilled hole and screw it down.
- Attach the negative terminals to all the batteries.