Installing Aftermarket Light Switches Ram 2500 Factory Dimming Nilight

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Installing multiple Nilight LED light switches in my 2015 Ram 2500 and connecting it to the factory dome light dimming wire. Link to Switch: amzn.to/3ufxpsQ
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0:00 - Intro
2:54 - How To Wire An LED Lightbar Toggle Switch
5:43 - Installing LED Toggle Switches In Ram Factory Dash
8:56 - How To Connect LED Light Switch To Ram Factory Dimmer Wiring
13:03 - Nilight LED Light Switch Installation
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@RoadandReel 2 года назад

Here's the video where I first ran the wire and installed the original switch. Feel free to check out the whole video, but this is where the wiring starts. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-k-nkZu630zo.html

@redridervideos 3 года назад

Perfect explanation! Thanks man, very helpful

@oscarcruz9585 Год назад

Excellent video. I need for you to come down to Texas and set up my Ram....only 8 switches to hook up, brother. I'll buy you some beer. Seriously, great video and it helps out a lot. Thanks.

@RoadandReel Год назад

Haha, thanks! 8 switches is a lot! I was just out in Texas on a road trip a couple weeks ago. We were visiting Big Bend National Park and the Guadalupe Mountains.

@dtaposse8858 3 года назад

Great video very informative

@RoadandReel 3 года назад

Thanks, I hope it helps!

@syntheticperformanceunlimi8323 Год назад

What I did on my ram was I wired the panel right to my drivers Cigarette lighter and so all the lights turn off with the ignition, also an option!

@RoadandReel Год назад

That's a great idea, thanks!

@Liltagr6 Год назад

An easy way to get rid of the light that is always on is unplug the lower red cable. The lower red cable is the power for the AL or always on light. The light that comes on when you turn the switch on will still work to!!

@luisvelez884 Год назад

Very helpfull thanks

@RoadandReel Год назад

Glad it helped!

@ajmelin1 3 месяца назад

I added a 2 gang nilight switch in the same spot, after watching your video. The only problem I'm having is determining which is the orange wire/gray tracer. My eyes are so bad, both the orange wires look to have the same color tracer on them. Any way for you to pull your panel and describe which one you used? Thanks, and great video!

@RoadandReel 3 месяца назад

With the flat part of the factory plug facing down, the orange wire is on the right. It's on the side with the two white wires and a yellow. At 10:11 in the video you can really get a good view of it.

@zacharymotley349 3 года назад

I’m not real good at electrical so I was wondering what you did from the battery to the switch. I’m trying to do this on my 2015 Ram, but am lost in terms of fuses and/or relays. How did you run yours?

@RoadandReel 3 года назад

Power runs through the relay and to the light. When the switch inside is flipped, it turns the relay on which then let's power pass through it to the light. If I didn't use a relay, then I would run huge wire from the battery to the switch then to the light, so the switch would be breaking the circuit. Instead, I can use the relay to break the power in the circuit by running a small power wire to the relay from my switch, inside, that turns it on or off.

@RoadandReel 3 года назад

This is a pretty good video that explains it. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-W2Mr2Zgv1Ck.html

@martinsandoval1084 2 года назад

So when you put in a new set of lights and run the wires to the switch all you need to install on the switch is the new lights yellow wire?

@RoadandReel 2 года назад

And the ground. It also takes the relay setup the way I did under the hood.

@usmarinenapinoy 7 месяцев назад

I have a set of podlights and a bar light on my truck. Each has its own wiring harness with separate clicker to turn it on and off. Using the same rocker switch panel that you use on this video, how would you hook up the sets of lights with separate wiring harnesses and clickers to the rocker switch panel. Interested in the setup that you have. Thanks

@RoadandReel 7 месяцев назад

You would ground your lights in a common area and run power to each one with its own fuse. The small power wires from the relay would go to whichever switch you wanted to run them. The power to the switch would come from the harness the same way I did it, but it would be split to tie in to all your switches.

@usmarinenapinoy 7 месяцев назад

@@RoadandReel thanks for the response. I do have the hilight wiring harness for both the bar light and the pod lights. Each harness has its own clicker and positive and negative wires that are connected directly to the truck battery. Just so I know I’m clear, in order to connect the rocker switch panel to both wiring harnesses for the pod lights and bar light, the clickers must be removed/cut, and wires that were connected to the clickers (small red, black, and white or yellow) must then be connected to the rocker switch. This is where I’m somewhat not clear…do I connect all small wires (red, black, white or yellow) for each harness to each rocker switch? And same for the wires for the other harness? Thanks

@RoadandReel 7 месяцев назад

@@usmarinenapinoy without seeing it, I'm guessing your lights have outer and inner bulbs. I'm guessing those are the yellow/white and red. Those power the bulbs and the black is the ground. You'll cut the switch side off and wire those to the new rocker switched on side. Black is ground almost always. You rockers will pull power from the harness. Power will run through the switch and into the yellow/white and red. Those go to the relay input and the relay pulls power from a fused battery wire and a big wire (probably red) will come out of the relay and power the red and yellow/white wires. Ground your black wires to the frame somewhere.

@proyectocoyhaique5935 2 месяца назад

Hello! Did you install other lights on the other switches? So you can show us how you placed the cables please.

@usmarinenapinoy 2 месяца назад

@@proyectocoyhaique5935I went a different route. I’ve used the Auxbeam 8 gang switch panel instead. It is somewhat more expensive but much easier to install.

@mellamodiego8458 Год назад

how would i wire it if i dont want the lights on the rocker switch to turn on only when i have turned on one of the switches?

@RoadandReel Год назад

If you just want it to light up when the switch is on, then you would run a jumper wire from the prong that powers your off-road lights back to the prong on the back of the switch that makes it light up.

@ryan-ue2vr 3 года назад

Can you make these switches double throw somehow or do you have to buy them separate

@RoadandReel 3 года назад

These switches can't be made double throw, but they do make double throw switches that will fit in this same space.

@ryan-ue2vr 3 года назад

@@RoadandReel well that's dumb why wouldn't they make that an option

@RoadandReel 3 года назад

@@ryan-ue2vr the company might have that option and these are standard size switches, so I'm sure you could find a double throw switch that mounts in the same bezel.

@ridgedbullet2420 2 года назад

So for the power in and out its the furthest left plug middle and bottom? Kinda confused here

@RoadandReel 2 года назад

So for each switch, the middle left prong is power in. Bottom left prong is power out.

@dtaposse8858 Год назад

Good job buddy looks nice

@RoadandReel Год назад

Thanks!

@pearlwhite5.766 2 года назад

Has it thrown any dash codes??

@RoadandReel 2 года назад

No, it's all been good.

@pearlwhite5.766 Год назад

Been running it exactly like that with the same panel and switches for a while now and it works great👍🏽

@thaAzian1401 2 года назад

What is yellow wire for How did u setup tha yellow wire Where is tha yellow wire connected to and from where

@RoadandReel 2 года назад

The yellow wire is the power out of the switch and it travels to the relay to activate it. Here is where I initially wired it up and explain it all. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-k-nkZu630zo.html

@thaAzian1401 2 года назад

I had another question So tha rocker panel when u add a new set of light bar or pod all u have to do is plug into other switches Would u have to add another relay to tha light bar or that 1 relay will work

@RoadandReel 2 года назад

@@thaAzian1401 Each bank that you add will have its own relay and hot wires. You can add a separate fuse panel to run everything to keep it organized.

@thaAzian1401 2 года назад

Would u happen to know a video or will u b posting more videos where u add other lights to ur truck

@RoadandReel 2 года назад

@@thaAzian1401 here's a good one. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BvFHA1xY10w.html Also, you can look up Auxiliary fuse and relay boxes for Ram truck LED lights and it should bring up a lot of stuff. There's a lot of keep wiring videos and off road stuff that is really good, too. Let me know if you need anything else.

@jim62367 Год назад

I pull that panel and I have something behind it with an orange strap and a cable running down thru the firewall. Wtf?

@RoadandReel Год назад

Which panel? Above the emergency brake where I put the switches? That's the first I've heard of that.

@user-jc6uw8oj2j 4 месяца назад

How? I tried this same panel with 1 small switch and there is so much crap back there I couldn't make it for. There's some orange strap to disengage the transmission and there is also so metal support bar for the dash. Please explain

@RoadandReel 4 месяца назад

What year is your truck? Does it have a knob to shift or is it on the column?

@irvin4am 3 года назад

I did exactly how you did it, and the blue backlight always stays on.

@RoadandReel 3 года назад

Did you connect to the right orange wire? What does it do when you turn your lights on and adjust the dimmer? What about when your lights are off and you flip the switch?

@irvin4am 3 года назад

@@RoadandReel nothing happens. The top light of the switch I have connected stays on

@RoadandReel 3 года назад

@@irvin4am check the connections on the back of the switch, again. I think you have the back wired wrong with the lights in the switch powered with the battery.

@Trackhoe075 2 года назад

Lol

@RoadandReel 2 года назад

🤯

@JoshH001 Год назад

Your video instructions would be much easier to follow if you didn’t move the switchboard/wiring around so much and so sporadically. Not trying to be critical, It would just be much more helpful.

@RoadandReel Год назад

I appreciate it and I'll take that into consideration next time.

@JoshH001 Год назад

Does your 2500 have 2 batteries? I’m installing a single switch for running lights in my 3500 which has two batteries and everything is fine until I click the switch on and then it blows the fuse. I installed a wire harness from Nightlight that came with the switch. I have checked to make sure the positive and negative are correct at the light connection and still can’t find why I am blowing a fuse.

@RoadandReel Год назад

@@JoshH001 Mine is a single battery, but that shouldn't matter int he harness. Check that on side gas 12v when going to ground and the other side has continuity with a ground. You may have two different legs of the hot side.

@JoshH001 Год назад

Thanks for your video and your response

@RoadandReel Год назад

@@JoshH001 as long as I help a little, I'm happy 😊 I don't always make my videos with the "how to" in mind. I'm doing it for myself and making the video afterwards, so I'm sorry if it's not always the clearest.