Help Wiring LED Pod Reverse Lights

I'm more of a carpentry guy, less of a wiring guy so any help would be appreciated. I am putting a new (Fishbone) bumper on my G3 and am adding Rough Country Led Pod lights to my reverse lights so I can have a ton of light when I'm out in the bush. The lights have a red, black and white wire. I am trying to find out o how to wire into the reverse light wires. I am assuming red to red, then I am not sure. I am planning on splicing (twisting) two wires together and then sealing in a heat shrink butt connector. Will this work and what is the other wire connection? I am assuming the third wire just gets sealed off? Thanks for the help with this.

 

Might help to show us what lights you're trying to add. I assume the white is for a DRL of sorts, red is for the main beam and black is ground aka skip the white wire. I would not wire pod lights directly to the factory reverse wires because they're very small gauge wires.

Looks like most of RC's pod lights pull 60watts each (5 amps) and that's a lot of current through some 16 or 18 gauge wiring. I'd add a relay personally, so you'll need a constant power source at the rear bumper.

 

Without a proper diagram for those lights or if you het lucky and so.eone with them chimes in we are very little help. A 3 wire set up could mean they are back lit or have a dual colour option. Typically red it hot black is ground but not always I have wired In components where black is hot white is ground.

As noted above is would not directly add those to the reverse light circuit without a relay that is far to much draw to add to that circuit. Also you don't want those always coming on if your in town. Get a seperate harness build or get a switch panel to wire it into.

 

No, twisting wires together is not enough
Get crimp connectors at least. I prefer the bare metal ones and then put adhesive lined heatshrink over it, but the all in ones are ok too

 

You are in over your head. Take it to someone!

 

The heatshrink butt connectors are crimped then heated...

 

You need a relay with a trigger wire, run a dedicated power wire to the relay, wire the pods, the pods you got have two different lights in them (two different power wires and a ground), red does not go to red in the truck harness.

 

You need a harness for two switches. Your lights you got have two different lights inside them that are switched differently. If you want them both to turn on together, you can splice the two positive wires together on the same relay.

 

Without knowing which LED's you bought, it's a guess.

 

Got it all figured out thanks