Cargo Area Light Mod

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MechEng813

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Nice work! Inspired me to do mine last weekend.

I spaced them at 6" and 17" from center, 1.25" back from the lift gate side.
Also used an illuminated power button from Amazon http://a.co/b1mitvN mounted above the fuse panel area.
Left a connector at the end of the line incase I add more down facing LED's on the lift gate trim in the future.

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Has any one got this to work when you open up your doors to come on with your other map or some lights.
 

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Nice work! Inspired me to do mine last weekend.

I spaced them at 6" and 17" from center, 1.25" back from the lift gate side.
Also used an illuminated power button from Amazon http://a.co/b1mitvN mounted above the fuse panel area.
Left a connector at the end of the line incase I add more down facing LED's on the lift gate trim in the future.

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I know the diagram is there but I’m more of a pictures guy. Do you have more pics of how you wired it to the switch? And also doing this mod do you have to buy more wire if so what size? And do you connect them all together in the back part of the panel. Do you have pics of the back of the panel?

Sorry for the Qs but I just want to do this right
 
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I know the diagram is there but I’m more of a pictures guy. Do you have more pics of how you wired it to the switch? And also doing this mod do you have to buy more wire if so what size? And do you connect them all together in the back part of the panel. Do you have pics of the back of the panel?

Sorry for the Qs but I just want to do this right


I connected mine all together behind the panel, heat-shrinked the joints where I had to add more wire to each light. The wire size can be small, probably as small as 20ga.

Sorry, I do not have any more pics than what I already posted. Maybe someone else does...
 

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Did you just splice into the rear cargo light? Did you change the fuse for that light to a bigger one to handle more amps?
I spliced straight in since leds take a small fraction of the power. And all the dome/map lights are led, so technically I'm still running less power than what the system is designed to handle.
 

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