WE NEED YOUR INPUT! - Automatic Aux w/hi beam wiring harness Development

Hello all, we're working on a new wiring harness that will hopefully help people out here! We are working on a harness that will allow you to have a plug-and-play solution to run auxiliary lights with a flip of your hi-beam switch. No more turning on your high beams and then fumbling around for another switch!

That said - I now have a handful of questions for you, and would greatly appreciate your input, use case, application scope, etc as well as any other feedback you might have!

1) We plan on having this harness be switched. There are going to be times where you can't have or don't want the aux lights to come on every time you hit your high beams. For this switch, would you want it to be Auto/On/Off or Auto/Off? The potential "on" would allow the aux lights to be powered on regardless of where the headlight stalk is.

2) We want to make this as PNP as humanly possible, but since it is sort of a niche product we have to develop around installing this on multiple different makes and models. There's 2 ways to tap the high beam circuit. First is intercepting signal on a wire that goes hot when the high beams are triggered (of course we'll have to account for those vehicles which are ground switched), and the second would be to leverage an add-a-fuse on the high-beam circuit within the fuse box. If the kit included a self-stripping/insulated T-tap would you be willing to use it? Or would the intercepting of your OEM hardware keep you from using the kit?

3) Would you be wanting to run one set of lights with this, or will you be trying to turn on a Xmas tree once this is kicked over? Just trying to determine anticipated load.

I suppose I'll start the discussion there... And if this uncovers more questions or use cases we'll go from there!

Appreciate everyone's help!

 

There would be no reason that the kit in development couldn't be applied to your fog lights, but you would be rendering your OEM fog light switch useless. A "fog-light anytime" mod would be a more simple/inexpensive solution to having the fogs come on whenever.

 

Speaking of which - Is there a write-up on a fog-light anytime mod for the 2.5G Tundras? If not I should probably toss one together. It's relatively simple to knock out.

 

Of course that was my first thought... I know that's not in the cards for most though.