rcbs204 4x4 Illuminated Switch!

Have you decided if you are going to continue making these or not ?

 

No not yet, i re-designed a new board (Rev3), but i have not ordered any boards. I may do enough to get through the year sales will tell. The last three months have been good enough to warrant the continuation of the product line.
I have also invested in a 3D printer, so will more than likely be adding to the product line.
Stay tuned, odds are good.
S

 

This may sound dumb but in your instructions when you say you get the power from the AC harness you mean the Air Conditioning, right? not alternating current harness or something I have know idea where it would be at? lol I dont want to screw it up...

 

Yep Air Conditioning harness.

 

Sweet thanks!

 

Just put mine in today (...great service/quick shipping by the way, Thanks!)

Anyway... my switch had an empty one of those little twist-in sockets that holds a bulb in the other switches. Looking at how the bulb leads were inserted into the ones on the AC module, I found that I could do the same with the wires from this light module. It worked great, and there was no need to solder. I didn't take a pic, but if you look on the back of the AC for the little brown bulb holders, it's pretty obvious how they work.

 

Interested but not following you ^^^

 

Yeah, sorry. Not too helpful without a pic. Anyway, here's the bulb socket that was in my switch (there was no bulb but otherwise this is the same part that's behind the AC and Recirc buttons. Copying those, I ran the wires up through hole A, over to the notch B, down under and up through notch C. Once reinserted and twisted, this allows the wire between section B-C to contact the pads that the installation instructions would have you solder to. (...only the red wire path is labeled here, but they're symmetrical).

Not sure if these sockets are in all or most trucks, but it made things pretty easy.

 

Very nicely done!
Im surprised no one else has done that.

 

Thanks. I might just be the only one too lazy to solder it.

The wire you supply is just the right gauge to fit through the holes as long as you twist the strands tightly and nip the end off clean.

 

Has anyone just tried putting a bulb in the socket? Looks like that is all that would be needed to illuminate the switch.

 

Well, that and running the extra 2 wires. I was wondering that too, but I don't see how a single bulb would match the intensity of the rest of the panel lighting as well as these 6 LED boards do.

 

i think it'd be pretty dim...but it's weird that they have the switch wired for a light...but don't put a light in it from the factory...

 

The single bulb is worthless, they would usually have what is called a light pipe in the switch. I spent the better part of 2010 perfecting what you see today!!

 

If I remember correctly, we don't have the wires needed to do this from stock, the hot and ground for that light. I added mine so it looks like RickG's, but they weren't there when I started. I wonder if this was updated in 2010 to accept the 4-runner switch with out modification??

 

[QUOTE="OldManTan";6679327]If I remember correctly, we don't have the wires needed to do this from stock, the hot and ground for that light. I added mine so it looks like RickG's, but they weren't there when I started. I wonder if this was updated in 2010 to accept the 4-runner switch with out modification?? [/QUOTE]

That would be nice if they did that.

 

[QUOTE="OldManTan";6679327]...I wonder if this was updated in 2010 to accept the 4-runner switch with out modification?? [/QUOTE]

No, not updated in my 2010. I had to add those 2 wires too. Mine are red/black though since I had trouble getting the supplied molex connectors to stay in there. I had some slightly different ones that stuck better.

 

Oh, then in that case I did the same as you. You can remove/replace the switch without anything other than unplugging it. I liked that because I could work on it without having to mess with splices. And looks better at dealer, although they better not toss my switch!!

 

[QUOTE="OldManTan";6684878]Oh, then in that case I did the same as you. You can remove/replace the switch without anything other than unplugging it. I liked that because I could work on it without having to mess with splices. And looks better at dealer, although they better not toss my switch!! [/QUOTE]

You sold your truck?