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Heres my idea 
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Reverse light alternatives
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A brilliant one at that! Now we need a write up on the install lest you constantly get asked how to keep them from spinning with the axle...Heres my idea
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Ok you'll need to let us know what you did here. Never thought about mounting lights to the diff. It's not a bad idea
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Just played with the existing holes with some brackets. Ill take pics once it stop raining . They do work well at noght
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this is what I want to do on my truck.....Just looks very clean
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Cree Led's from Retro solutions. I wouldn't buy their hid's again but these are awesome.
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I just drilled a hole through the hitch and bolted mine on. Connected them both together with solder and heat shrink tubing, then ran them to the passengers side tail light. I tapped into the reverse light wires and they work perfectly!
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I took one of the taillights off and used tap connectors to tap into the positive and negative wires going to the reverse light on the taillight.
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No relay or fuse? I'm interested in doing it this way for ease of install, but I'm wondering if it might not play well with the factory wiring...
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The reverse lights are already fused from the truck, so I didn't put one on for the pods. I didn't run a relay either because of the low power draw of the LED. So far no issues, they work great!
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So you wired the two lights together then ran them to a single tail light right? I'm wondering if there would be any benefit to wiring each one individually to a tail light. Any thoughts?
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True enough, I'm just wondering if there would be a load benefit. Electrical wiring isn't my strong suit. Your setup is nice and easy. I'd think wiring them into the trailer hitch wiring would be even easier.
Does anyone know the wires to tap in the trailer harness?
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The only thing you'd need to worry about by splicing both lights into on side is the draw on that particular wire or harness. LED lights don't draw nearly as much as incandescent lights so I highly doubt there will be any problem. And as long as you splice properly then you won't have to worry about corroding wires
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I also already replaced the reverse lights with LEDs so more room for electrical load on those particular wires (I think that's how it works)...
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It is in my opinion. That's the route I went.
White/orange....or it's the center if I recall.
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Thanks! So that wire is the reverse light power/trigger?
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For the most part yes but I wouldn't run 12 lights off of a 16 gauge wire though. And don't for get, the reverse lights are only on for a minute or two not for hours on end
