2020 TRD Off-Road: DRL + Raptor Lights

Hi FBC! I bought and installed an aftermarket pro-style grille on my 2020 TRD OR with raptor lights (from Tacoma World.) I have the “premium” (auto lights) package.

Currently I have it the add-a-fuse extender plugged into the right headlight fuse (H-LP RH-LO), so the raptor lights come on when full headlights are on. What I’m hoping for is grille raptor lights to be able to turn on when DRL are on and then stay on when headlights turn on.

I’ve heard you’re the best and may make something to help… What do you recommend?

 

Did your truck come with halogen or led headloghts?

 

Halogen:
https://fbchs.square.site/product/tacoma-trd-2016-halogen-t-harness-with-grille-lights/13

LED:
https://fbchs.square.site/product/tacoma-2020-led-t-harness-with-grille-lights/8

 

LED. Thanks for the links! Do kits come with any install instructions (I’m a total newbie..) Thank you

 

No instructions are included but for the topic of how to connect the supplied pigtail to your grille light harness, this thread may help:

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/howto-connect-ebay-grille-lights.759814/#post-27085847

 

Thank you! Placed my order - appreciate the help

 

You could fuse if you want but the grille feed is technically "covered" by the parking light fuse and the drl fuse respectively. I wouldn't use it for more than 1amp as the diodes are 1 amp diodes. I don't feel like an additional fuse for 100 mA adds much value, if you short power the existing fuses will pop just fine and they are easier to locate/identify/replace than some inline fuse somewhere. But just do a nice job and protect your wire and all should be fine, little grille LED's don't just spontaneously short based on what I've seen.

Most of the time a driver only grille feed suffices. The only reason to go dual is if you want SS3 backlight and you don't want a wire across the grille. Some might prefer the passenger side grille output depending on their setup (dual battery on the driver side might make that tight) but 12" lengths are another option for really tight situations (compressor on passenger side, dual side-by-side batteries, etc).

Standard 7" w grille lights is the bread and butter option, all the fun, minimal extra stuff.

 

Thanks for that information. I figured a fuse would be recommended since the grille lights come with the add fuse connection and it has a slot for 2 fuses. One for the lights and the other for the existing fuse. When you mean most of the time is there a potential for fuses burning up just to feed 4 grille lights when drl or headlights are on? Glad I found this post will be ordering the harness in the near future! Thank you

 

100 mA isn't going to be noticeable. When you have halogen bulbs for your sidemarkers, the filament will burn out over time and resistance will increase. Grille lights don't add material load.

Fuses are protection for problems, you already have all of these circuits fused. Fuses are not really there to protect against an LED going rogue and sucking extra current, that just doesn't happen, but they would protect for that as well.

The add-a-fuse is just one way to get an extra circuit and the reason it has 2 fuses is that you don't have any protection for the power it's feeding from, and if you did, it'd be large as the main fuse box feeds all the circuits in the truck. So, for that reason, you want to use a fuse because you're sucking unprotected juice from the source, like grabbing water from a fire hydrant. When you steal downstream, you're already protected.