Fuse tap or ?

Installing these tomorrow. I just want the light when opening the door .should I use a fuse tap or tap into interior light wire

 

Is he have a courtesy light in your door just tap into that

 

Text to speech sometimes doesn't work very well meant to say if you have courtesy lights in your door anyway I just did this to my 08 tundra and wired up my puddle lights in my mirrors tap right into the courtesy light,and it will be a short wire run.

 

Yea I was just wondering another way besides taping into a wire don't really like the idea .Their should be a fuse for the carge lights under the dash also right ?

 

Why not just tap into the positive and negative wires of the courtesy light,why go under the truck

 

Those look alot better then what they sent me .

 

This strip is like 5' they suggest mounting under the truck where the two bodies come together. Sorry idk what that area is called

 

And I still cant decide of I want the amber part hooked up to the signals or not .That would kinda be nice because cars next to me at night sit right beside me when I'm trying to get over even when I do have signal mirrors.

 

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I used these for my pop-n-lock, tapped in the passenger kick. Only thing better in my eye is soldering or a dedicated power.

 

Pinch weld seam thingy.

 

Exactly. /\/\/\ roflmao

 

Now I’ve gotta do another mod ! Lol

 

https://youtu.be/r0hBvMXSo4Y

Now this guy didnt play around . AT ALL

 

I’m actually liking this mod. I think I would want them attached to my cargo light so that I could turn them on without the dome lights coming on. This way you could use them as a cheap rock light when trailing at night.

 

Or they might speed up ! Lol

 

Great point ! I would use them alot that way because of camping also when turning on the cargo light I will be able to see where I'm walking also.

 

My badd I thought these were door seal lights not underneath the truck

 

I will say looking at the quality of these opt7 seems to be a good brand . They make alot of different lighting for trucks .

 

https://www.realtruck.com/ionic-illuminator-led-light-kit/
Here are the ones i got. Just need to get them on.

 

Here some working pictures of the one I did. I dont have pictures of the wire I tapped in to though. Theres a rubber grommet underneath the carpet in all four floor boards (Driver, Driver Rear, Passenger Front, Passenger Rear) I did all of my passenger lights and came up the passenger front grommet. (Drilled a whole just barely big enough for the conduit to pass through) then underneath the carpet and around behind the dash to the driver side kick panel. Driver side was the same through the grommet and then to the scuf plate. I tapped the positive into the cargo wire. And the ground to the trucks ground behind the kickplate. I can take pictures of that tomorrow if you need them.

 

Nice yea that will be my hardest part to figure out what wire. But my machanic buddy will be here to help. So I'm sure he can figure that out. Those are bright amd noce install .

 

I'd like to see some pictures of where you tapped into the wire. If you don't mind.

 

Thanks! I'll see if I can get a picture tomorrow of the wire. If you search the forums here someone has a great picture of the whole harness and they show which wire. It helped me out. I tapped the wrong wire first (still dont know what it was for lol) but they didnt work. Got it right the second time though.

 

Not the greatest picture, but heres one. This wire is by itself, not twisted or braided with any others.

 

Heres the picture @NewImprovedRon posted of the wiring harness, the cargo light wire is the one on the right. The little 20g ? 22 maybe brownish purple wire.

 

Brown? Maybe gray lol if so I think I got it !

 

That looks like it. If you have the positaps or even a ttap you can check it. If its not it just make sure to use some electrical tape over the wire where you tapped it.

 

O one more what is ground the black one or should I take that to somewhere else .

 

I ran the ground to the ground screw behind the kick plate on the drivers side. Its the black wire that comes off the lights. Red is your positive that goes to the cargo wire.

 

This is what they sent me