Lighting Help

[Jhorton]

I have a 23 BD that had a capable bumper with the fog lights. I have changed it out for a modular bumper. I ordered the light kit from Rough Country for the lights on each side of the bumper (3 2” led lights on each side). I was planning on wiring it back to the stock harness from the original lights. Is this wire heavy enough to carry these new lights. Thanks in advance.

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[cr117]

In most states, you’re only allowed one set of fog lights to be on with your headlights when on the street. I’d wire one set into the factory harness and have the other two sets tied to an aux switch.

 

[Jhorton]

Hadn’t thought about that but I like that idea. Thanks

 

[SPVPARTS]

I have a 23 BD that had a capable bumper with the fog lights. I have changed it out for a modular bumper. I ordered the light kit from Rough Country for the lights on each side of the bumper (3 2” led lights on each side). I was planning on wiring it back to the stock harness from the original lights. Is this wire heavy enough to carry these new lights. Thanks in advance.

If you want to tell me what style connector is on the back of the lights, I can get you setup with our plug and play wiring to run one pair directly to your OEM fog connection and wire the other two to one or two switches.

Feel free to call or text me at the number below, as well if you'd like.

Thanks!
Sidney @ SPV Parts
(317) 934-6778
www.spvparts.com

 

[Ford Motor Company]

I have a 23 BD that had a capable bumper with the fog lights. I have changed it out for a modular bumper. I ordered the light kit from Rough Country for the lights on each side of the bumper (3 2” led lights on each side). I was planning on wiring it back to the stock harness from the original lights. Is this wire heavy enough to carry these new lights. Thanks in advance.

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[Johnny Mo]

In most states, you’re only allowed one set of fog lights to be on with your headlights when on the street. I’d wire one set into the factory harness and have the other two sets tied to an aux switch.

Yep ^^^ this is the exact reason that the BRaptor's second set of foglights is actually covered at delivery and located on one of the AUX switches and not tied into the headlight switched set.

 

[4x4TruckLEDs.com]

I have a 23 BD that had a capable bumper with the fog lights. I have changed it out for a modular bumper. I ordered the light kit from Rough Country for the lights on each side of the bumper (3 2” led lights on each side). I was planning on wiring it back to the stock harness from the original lights. Is this wire heavy enough to carry these new lights. Thanks in advance.

1) This is the RAPTOR area, you're in the wrong group... no matter I can still offer some help
2) So short answer.. NO there is no harness that works on the Rough Country kit to work with your old factory harness. Rough Country doesn't utilize standard connectors on their lights nor do they actually make it easy for you to wire them up. They provide a generic switch harness which ties all the lights together to 1 switch.

If memory serves me right they actually have a toggle switch that serves two purposes. One for lighting, the 2nd function does the ambient back-lighting and all the lights are tied together.

The RC lights are not street legal either, so you can't technically run them on public roads, even if one pair of lights was on. They don't give you a street legal pattern. And with all 6 lights tied together, even worse for legality.

You could cut wires up and wire them as we sell some pigtails. Our pigtails would plug into the factory wire and give you bare wires on the other end to power the lights. But you'd have to cut their harness apart and what not, as they don't use a standard DT 2 or 4 pin connector or a weatherpack. I THINK they use a 3-pin connector if memory serves me right from installs i've seen.

 

[SPVPARTS]

I have a 23 BD that had a capable bumper with the fog lights. I have changed it out for a modular bumper. I ordered the light kit from Rough Country for the lights on each side of the bumper (3 2” led lights on each side). I was planning on wiring it back to the stock harness from the original lights. Is this wire heavy enough to carry these new lights. Thanks in advance.

I was just following up on this.

I assume you mean these? (Picture below) These are considered 3" lights or 3X3. Not 2 inch.

If so, do you have the backlighting option?

If its a different set, then maybe a picture or part number? or link to it?

So it looks like you didn't get really the answers you were looking for.

So the answer is actually this. You can configure it pretty much however you want... depending on certain factors, you would use one component or another.

So in short, we developed a patented plug n play harness system that allows you to build or assemble any harness or wiring your heart desires. You just need to know a few things to understand which components you will need.

First, the basics.

1: Your truck would have H11 fog connectors. So we have those adapters. You can plug those into your connectors and then those can plug into fog lights.

2: From there, you have a couple things to figure out. If you have 3 fog lights and they all have separate connectors, you would technically (it sounds like) want to combine them because you have only the ONE fog switch?
Now, if you have Aux switches too, you can put 2 of the 3 pairs on Aux switches as well and one pair on the fog switch.

3: If you prefer to proceed with all 3 on the fog switch, you have the following limitations to consider. These limitations do not make this not doable. They simply require some additional components.
-The lights are not SAE so technically as stated, they are not "Street Legal" as far as traffic driving goes. However, we are not the authorities and we won't follow you around. Just know that if you turn them on in traffic, you do it at your own risk and may make some people angry.
-The OEM Fog switch has a 10 amp fuse. It is limited to a max of 10 amps. You really don't want to exceed more than 80% of that or 8 amps max. Depending on the lights amp draw, which if it is the lights in the pictures. It says they are 30 watts which is 2.5 amps each. So that per pair is 5 amps. That times 6 is 15 amps. That tells us that you could put one pair on the fog switch at 5 amps direct with adapters.
-If you want to combine them all to the fog switch, it can be done like this.
One adapter plugged into one of your factor fog connectors (H11) which would plug into a short harness that goes to our plug in relay adapter. The relay adapter connects to the battery with its own 30 amp fuse. The relay uses its own fuse and will then power the lights without the restrictions of the built in circuit. The relay would be TRIGGERED bat the factory fog switch which would use virtually no power draw. Lets call it an amp.
From there, you would plug in a harness to the relay to go back down to both sides and then a splitter to split to all 3 lights on each side. This gives you a plug in solution for all 3 lights on the fog switch without the restriction of the small fuse in the circuit.

4: If you prefer, and you have Aux switches, you can use just those 2 adapters and a separate harness to power 2 light pairs on one switch or the other 2 light pairs on separate switches. So that's your choice.

As far as connectors go. It looks like they do put DT connectors on those lights now. So if they don't have backlights, they use a 2 pole DT connector and if they do, they use a 3 pole. Our harnesses and adapters in our system allow plug n play to ANY connector type with our adapters.
So we can put together a plug n play harness setup to accomplish anything you want to do. However, depending on the route you go, it might be 1/2 the price or more than half of what you spent on those lights.
Rough Country lights/Kits are considered "Budget" lights. They are very inexpensive, but they also don't reach the quality levels of lights from companies like Baja Designs, Rigid Industries or Diode Dynamics. So you can use the wiring you got with the lights and try to splice it up manually? As with those being more budget lights, the wiring included isn't of the highest grade either.

So don't take any of this the wrong way. As the saying goes. "There is a Shoe for every foot". In other words, everyone has different needs and budgets and things they see value in.
So in short, we have plug n play harnesses and adapters to make it very simple. However, the quality level of those harnesses and adapters are a big step above the level of the lights and kit you have there. So if that doesn't make sense, you can manually try to make what you have work. If it does, then it is definitely a more simple solution.

If you would prefer to have a higher end light kit to go with those harnesses, we can help with that as well. We can also make suggestions for variations and even street legal (SAE) options.

Feel free to shoot a PM if you need any more help in that?

John
SPV Parts
info @spvparts.com
317/934/6778


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