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Offroad Lights wired to Stock Foglight switch?

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Old Dec 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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Old Dec 13, 2005
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you can use that but I would use a relay.
 
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Old Dec 13, 2005
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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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Old Dec 13, 2005
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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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Old Dec 14, 2005
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Last week I did a post about this: https://www.ranger-forums.com/forum2...ad.php?t=15375
 
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Old Dec 14, 2005
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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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