10 hours of wire hell

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Well, i started at 10am today with my "Light Project."

4- 1500XT clear driving for front of GOBI rack
2- 1500XT clear driving for rear of GOBI rack

So, I started with making a harness (again) and running wires. At this point things are going.

Next, I poked a hole through the firewall to run the switches. I drilled the hole, went inside to check for sharp edges. Found none, but did find two relays, a shhiittmessssss of wires for the factory HUMMER lights, and I founds this due to the firework show under my dash from the dumb****e that ran the wires. Well, there was bare wire under there, unsightly connectors. I've never seen such a bad job. I'm shocked the truck didn't catch fire!

So, I followed that routed mess and took it all out! I had an extra PIAA harness I used for them. That seemed to work so far. I was concerned that the harness wasn't the proper guage wire, but after a 30 minute run with them on, nothing seemed to be oveheating or blowing fuses. So that whole "EXTRA PHASE" took and extra 3 fricken hours.

So now all the wires, switches, and lights all worked out wit one excpetion.

I took a seperate run just down the street and back. When pulling into the driveway, I pulled up close the garage door to aim them, and watched the lights dim a couple of times and than back to normal. I only had the roof lights on (4 total to one switch), no AC on, no radio on. I haven't had this happen with any of the other HUMMERS we've had. I had the same setup's in each one and never noticed the dimming before.

Opinions:

Normal?

Possible issue with battery/ alternator?

I went back and checked all connections to make sure they are all good!

What do you think?