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Offroad Lights wired to Stock Foglight switch?

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Old 12-13-2005
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Offroad Lights wired to Stock Foglight switch?

I'm gettin my bumper on pretty soon, and am gonna be installing probably 4 Hella's on it. Since I don't have my factory bumper anymore, I was wondering how hard it would be to just tap them into my foglight wires and use my foglight switch to power them on and off? Any tips on how to fuse the wires together and such would be helpful because honestly, I know jack about electrical, Hardware on a truck is a different story but electrical
 
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you can use that but I would use a relay.
 
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Do a quick search on ORR, Bob and I talked Sean through it a couple months ago...basicly you use the positive on the foglight leads to trigger the realy/s
 
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I've done the exact thing you want.

I have a picture of it too...check it out.

Thanks go to John for making my idea come true, then to Bob for the picture!
 
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hey send a pm to fletch, he did excalty that, and has had no problems since then
 
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