Aggie12
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- 1997, now 2024
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- V-10, now 6.4l Hemi
OK: 2024 Ram 3500 with the Snow Chief package: I have 6 auxiliary switches at my disposal, and want to add front auxiliary driving lights that are triggered by the high-beams. Looking for well-informed input and confirmation that I'm not going to burn my truck up !
These are LED driving lights that come with a wiring harness including relay, and the harness includes a fuse for 10 amp power supply.
I plan to use one of the truck's auxiliary switches through the Auxiliary Power Distribution Center under the hood, to power the LED kit's 10 amp power supply. I'll reconfigure this control relay in the PDC to fuse it for 10 amps. This way I can remove the separate fuse that came with the kit; the 10 amp supply feeds terminal #30 on the light kit's relay.
I then plan to wire the kit's relay so that it's driven/controlled by the high-beam headlight circuit - I plan to scotchlock a wire to the driver's side high-beam wire and seal this with Liquid Tape. This will go back to terminal #85 on the kit's relay.
So, on the kit's relay, now: #30 is power 'in' from the RAM's PDC, #85 is the high-beam triggering signal, #87 #86 is the ground, #86 #87 is the power supply out to the driving light.
This way, when the Snow Chief auxiliary switch is 'off', there is no power to the driving light relay - it's dead. When the Snow Chief auxiliary switch is 'on', the relay is powered and if the high-beams are switched on, the relay sends power to the driving light.
Does anybody see any problems with this setup? First time fooling with RAM's PDC. Appreciate all input, thanks. I'll feed back the results when I complete the project.
These are LED driving lights that come with a wiring harness including relay, and the harness includes a fuse for 10 amp power supply.
I plan to use one of the truck's auxiliary switches through the Auxiliary Power Distribution Center under the hood, to power the LED kit's 10 amp power supply. I'll reconfigure this control relay in the PDC to fuse it for 10 amps. This way I can remove the separate fuse that came with the kit; the 10 amp supply feeds terminal #30 on the light kit's relay.
I then plan to wire the kit's relay so that it's driven/controlled by the high-beam headlight circuit - I plan to scotchlock a wire to the driver's side high-beam wire and seal this with Liquid Tape. This will go back to terminal #85 on the kit's relay.
So, on the kit's relay, now: #30 is power 'in' from the RAM's PDC, #85 is the high-beam triggering signal, #
This way, when the Snow Chief auxiliary switch is 'off', there is no power to the driving light relay - it's dead. When the Snow Chief auxiliary switch is 'on', the relay is powered and if the high-beams are switched on, the relay sends power to the driving light.
Does anybody see any problems with this setup? First time fooling with RAM's PDC. Appreciate all input, thanks. I'll feed back the results when I complete the project.
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