Using Rigid Industries Harness w/ OEM Fog light circuit

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I have read the FAQ thread a number of times, but my electrical skills are severely lacking.

I'm missing the OEM fog light harness after the connector that splits off into the separate OEM foglight connectors. What I do have is one end of the connector with 2 red/black power lines (16g) and white/black (14g).

Initially, I was just going to splice/solder the female deutsch connector from the RI wiring harness into the OEM wiring and be happy with the plug and play, but after reading a few comments in the FAQ thread, I'm now wondering how to use the OEM foglight circuit to power the RI harness into running the 20" LED light bar.

How do I wire up the 3 ends (power in, power out, ground) that would normally connect to a switch to the OEM foglight circuit? Or does this require more wiring modification to the harness to make this work?

Here's a pic from the RI website of the harness:

rigidharness.jpg


Thanks

*Edit*

Well...I just ended up wiring it directly to the OEM harness. Really like the light output on these. Some things I need to do in the future: 1). Disable the low beam only for the foglight circuit 2). Remount my winch control box so that I can remount the light bar underneath the bumper bar. 3). Buy a Rigid SR amber floodlight for true fogs.

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You can use any type of relay harness. 40AMP relay harness will work with any light bar. I would advise putting a 9006 connector, and making a Y-Adapter to make a clean, removable solution. I can make a splitter for you if you'd like. Just shoot me a PM. I have bucket loads of relay harnesses and 9006 connectors.

Power in needs to go into the + on the OEM harness (fog light circuit)
Power out needs to go to the light bar/fog lights
Ground needs to either go to the battery -, or to a fender bolt/ground point.


If you aren't using a light bar, I would use a standard HID relay harness as it has two outputs for both fog lights or HID's and simply plugs into any circuit you want the fog lights to turn on with.
 
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