Has anyone done a write-up on installing a reverse light?

[wob]

I've searched thread titles with no real luck, but I'm sure someone has done a good write-up. I'm interested in putting a LED on my Slee rear bumper. I want it to turn on automatically in reverse (easy enough), but I'd also like to be able to manually turn it on if/when I needed it without having to be in reverse.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?


Thanks.

 

[Hugh Heifer]

I drilled a small hole and added a grommet to seal out the weather and tapped the pos into the pos that activated the regular reverse lights. THe light is just a cheap three LED bar mounted on a bracket above my license plate.
Club members who ride behind me are not pleased.

 

[SanDiegoCruiser]

You need a 12V relay hooked up to a switch in the front of the cab. The relay also needs to have a wire taped into your reverse light circuit. The easiest way I did this was to open up the rear taillight and tap it in to the wire directly.

 

[KlausVanWinkle]

You need a 12V relay hooked up to a switch in the front of the cab. The relay also needs to have a wire taped into your reverse light circuit. The easiest way I did this was to open up the rear taillight and tap it in to the wire directly.

Is yours also on a switch?

 

[SanDiegoCruiser]

Yep, this switch

 

[wob]

What happens if you have the switch on, and put it in reverse? Does that send 24V to the LED? I suppose that's ok if it does - the LED has an operating range of 10 to 30V.

 

[Hugh Heifer]

You need a 12V relay hooked up to a switch in the front of the cab.

No I don't. ;p

 

[PhrogsPhorever]

I drilled a small hole and added a grommet to seal out the weather and tapped the pos into the pos that activated the regular reverse lights. THe light is just a cheap three LED bar mounted on a bracket above my license plate. Club members who ride behind me are not pleased.

Nice to see that finally got hooked up, neither me or Dave Ec got around to it

Sent from my interwebz doo-dad

 

[fireball]

I am wiring mine up with a SPDT on-off-on switch. The switch will either get power from a constant 12v source or a backup light. This will allow the following:

1. automatically ON when in reverse
2. off always
3. manually ON at anytime.

I've got the backup light wired to a relay and then the trigger wire for the relay up to the switch in the dash. Depending on where you're putting the switch, there's a reverse wire in the ECU behind the glove box or down in the driver footwell.

 

[wob]

I am wiring mine up with a SPDT on-off-on switch. The switch will either get power from a constant 12v source or a backup light. This will allow the following:

1. automatically ON when in reverse
2. off always
3. manually ON at anytime.

I've got the backup light wired to a relay and then the trigger wire for the relay up to the switch in the dash. Depending on where you're putting the switch, there's a reverse wire in the ECU behind the glove box or down in the driver footwell.

That's what I'm talking about...