Finally finished LEDS - cupholders, console, and bed lights

I can't remember. I ran out and had to run to Autozone and i grabbed whatever they had.

 

When I ran power from the toggle to the wagos , after I put the led wires into the wagos I hit the toggle to see if they were working before I put everything back together.

Keep checking them as you go.

After I got all the cupholder LED's and the console LED's hooked into the WAGO clamps, I flipped the toggle to see if everyone of them were working before popping cupholders back in and buttoning everything up.

Nothing worse than putting everything back together then realizing shit ain't working..

 

You can say that again.

I think the hardest part for me will be deciding where I want to put the lights. I have ten, so I am thinking:

One in each cupholder (3)
One in storage cubby in front of shifter
Two in center console
Two in glove box
One in rear air vent, by feet

and one extra.... maybe two in storage cubby, I'm not sure

 

That's perfect!!! Wish I would of put 2 in my glovebox.

And YES - 2 in the cubby area.

I need to do that cubby area in my truck still.

 

Our layouts are the same down the center. I think that sounds good then. Maybe I'll get more to put someplace later.

On another note, I got a four pack of those round oznium switches. I am going to use one for all these lights I think, but I don't know where I want to mount it. Somewhere besides the switch blanks to the left of the sterring wheel.

 

You could put it inside the little pull down change compartment.

 

Good idea

 

18 ga worked for me

 

Yep. I believe thats what I had.

 

Okay well I realized I had what I needed to do the three cupholders, so those are done! I don't want to deal with taking my whole center console apart so that will be a project for tomorrow probably.

My cupholders are now lit with a temporary switch stickin out the side, Ill get pics when its dark and you can actually see

 

Where did you ground the rocker switch? Thanks a ton

 

You can pull off the left kick panel and there are bolts behind that and behind the coin tray below the fuse panel that I have used.

 

i used the bolt under the false pedal near the left kick panel.

 

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In his diagram, there are 5 wires coming from the rocker switch, but there are only 3 tabs on the switch. How did he wire all 5 to the switch? Thanks guys

 

Look at the diagram again. There are only two wires (positive and negative) coming from the rocker switch. The positive goes into one wago clamp, the negative in the other. Than take all the positive wires from your led's and run them to the wago that has the positive feed from the rocker and do the same for the negative side.

 

1. Positive from truck battery to positive on rocker
2. Negative from truck battery to negative on rocker
3. ground wire from rocker to a bolt in the dash area to ground it
4. Positive wire from rocker to 1 WAGO clamp so that WAGO is an all positive "hub"
5. negative wire from the rocker to 1 WAGO making that an all negative "hub"

Then plug ALL positive red wires from LED's into the positive WAGO

and plug all black negative wires from LED's into negative WAGO

 

Center console is EASY PEASY MAN!!!!!

I thought it would be a headache but it literally took couple minutes. 2 bolts inside compartment under the little carpet piece and two screws where the cupholder pulls out.

 

You could even do these steps under the hood before you install anything.

Just open your hood and do these steps above right at your battery.
Toggle switch, WAGO and all. Hook it up in your hand then flip toggle on and off after doing these steps to see the LED's light up.

Then when you go to install you should have a better idea on what needs to power what.

I know I have a terrible time of explaining stuff...LOL