There's another usefull idea! I'll stick that in the back of my brain for later.

And just because I'm the kinda guy to do this (The troublemaker that I am ), I can see a possible improvment. What if you put the power to the hood and then mounted the switch in the hood as well? You'd have one hot wire to the hood switch, and then from it to the light all located next to eachother. What do ya think?