I'm trying to figure out the best way to get power out from my main bus, through a single SPST switch on the panel, to both wings for my posn lights I have terminal strips under the floor beside both wing roots, with ring terminals (so I can connect more than one wire to the same terminal by stacking the ring terminals). The obvious way seems to me to run the power through the switch out to the terminal strip at one wing, and have a jumper wire going from this same terminal to the terminal strip at the other wing. This has the posn lights wired in parallel with each other, but in series with the SPST switch. So this means if each posn light draws 2 amps, there will be 4 amps total drawn from the breaker, so I could put a 5A breaker there. The diagram below shows my plan. I could run the ground wires back seperately, since they don't need to go through a common switch.
Is this plan OK, or do I need to get a DPST switch to control both posn light circuits?
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Is this plan OK, or do I need to get a DPST switch to control both posn light circuits?
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