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Are people tying LED's into the factory harness?

Discussion in '3rd Gen. Tacomas (2016-2023)' started by travistheone, Mar 2, 2019.

  1. Mar 2, 2019 at 2:47 PM
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    travistheone

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    anyone running an LED light bar tied into the factory high beams?

    any kits available for this?

    also... anyone running two round lights instead of a bar?
     
  2. Mar 2, 2019 at 5:27 PM
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    velogeek

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    I would not do this. You will not want anything on the headlight circuits that might affect their function and you do not want to accidentally kick on light bars on the road because they aren't generally DOT legal. Run a separate circuit and a switch somewhere because you do not have enough headroom on the high-beam circuit to power high-draw lights.
     
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    I have 2 12" led bars behind the lower grill tied into my high beams via a relay.
     
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    vicali

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    It’s pretty easy to install a relay and switch. Gives you more choices as to when to run big lights.

    I use the high beam circuit to trigger the relay- addafuse in the fuse box means no cutting harnesses.
     
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    I tapped the high beam to energize a relay that also has in line switches for two sets of KCs. Low current draw side of the relay.

    Ignore the overheads, those are strictly off road.
    Center two are spots.
    Outer two are beams that replace lows when in high. All angles are correct so as to be street.

    Both sets have interrupt switch’s so I can disable them, and they are activated by the high beam switch.
     

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