under jeep lights...

riptricket · **Posted:** Tue Apr 27, 2010 1:45 am

I am installing some smd's under my jeep, and am wiring into the courtesy lights.
is it possible to hook up a switch so that I can turn off power to the under car lights so that they do not come on when i throw the stick for all lights inside to come on?

JeepinJarhead03 · **Posted:** Tue Apr 27, 2010 4:02 am

yep sure is, thats typically how ya wire it anyway

4 chip LED's work pretty well under there

http://www.oznium.com/prewired-superflux

riptricket · **Posted:** Mon May 03, 2010 12:18 am

okay.. i ordered my light from ebay and I want to make sure that my wiring will work...
they are smds, so they don't draw much.
light wire connected to switch, then switch connected to courtesy lamps under drivers knee panel.
this case would allow for the under jeep lights to be turned off/on so when i open the door, the courtesy lights will come on and in on the lights under the jeep, but for situation like driving down the road under lights in off switch will not come on, but courtesy still will... correct?

JeepinJarhead03 · **Posted:** Mon May 03, 2010 12:22 am

if i may?

Probably simpler, and at night, more effective (to not have glare inside the vehicle) to wire it from the battery, with an inline fuse, through the driver wiring gromet up into the dash, to a switch, back through the wiring gromet and down the firewall and to the lights

my interior lights cause a glare at night dont yours?

riptricket · **Posted:** Mon May 03, 2010 12:25 am

i like the look at night with the leds glowing... but as per my wiring... it will work correct?

JeepinJarhead03 · **Posted:** Mon May 03, 2010 12:33 am

yes, it sounds correct, if you're using a feed from the curt lights as the feed for your smdbs

JeepBumm68 · **Posted:** Mon May 03, 2010 7:29 pm

skinnypedal. Tell Josh seth sent ya. His eons are fu%%ing awesome

riptricket · **Posted:** Wed May 12, 2010 8:59 pm

okay all wired up, when i flip the switch to turn the smds off, all the lights inside turn off... how do I bypass this?

setup... courtesy to switch, switch to under lights. I need just the under lights to turn off.. I have been working on this for 1 hour and can't do it anymore!

JeepBumm68 · **Posted:** Wed May 12, 2010 9:07 pm

What lights did you end up getting? this helps cause if its a kit or if they are individuals. Send me a pm plz

riptricket · **Posted:** Wed May 12, 2010 9:13 pm

they are smds... the wrong color, they said they were white but they are not white at all!

riptricket · **Posted:** Sat May 15, 2010 9:33 pm

okay... so I blew a fuse today.. thank god it was just a fuse, but I still need help wiring.
I am going from pos and neg wired standard to courtesy lights
to courtesy lights somehow to a switch that controls the under jeep lights but the under jeep lights still turn on when the courtesy lights are on. in other words the switch just enables the under jeep lights.
PLEASE HELP I AM REALLY STUCK!

JeepBumm68 · **Posted:** Sat May 15, 2010 11:15 pm

is there only two wires for the courtesy lights. Also check the draw of the lights?

JeepinJarhead03 · **Posted:** Sun May 16, 2010 7:44 am

I'm not very clear how you've wired it

however, instead of running power to the switch, you can use it as a ground interrupt

daisy chain the ground wires for the led's with one wire up to the switch, then ground the switch

you can chain the power feed from the courtesy lights down to them without feeding it through the switch, without a ground nothing will draw or work

This will allow you to turn on the LEDs when the curt's have power but have an option of killing their ground so that they will not operate without the switch on

unfort, you won't get a lit rocker switch with this method but it is effective

does this help? I just got done doing rock lights and landing lights on a TJ and did the LED rock lights in this manner

If you're blowing a fuse, make double sure one of the LED's isn't wired backwards

JeepBumm68 · **Posted:** Sun May 16, 2010 11:44 am

LEDS dont draw much power so they should be blown fuses. Ground would be a cause like Jeepin said. Also make sure if your going to wire all the leds to a switch that its properly ground as well. If it does not work, try integrating the LEDS into the alarm light wire.

riptricket · **Posted:** Sun May 16, 2010 1:05 pm

so jeepin with your setup... the all light be come on if switch is on but when switch is flipped, under light swill turn off but inside lights wil stay on?

JeepinJarhead03 · **Posted:** Sun May 16, 2010 4:36 pm

correct

basically theres power to the lights whenever the curts come on, since you feed the lights with the curt light feed which i guess come on with parking lights?

by running the ground for the leds to the switch, instead of a power wire, you control the lights via the ground, start at the farthest point, and run your ground wire, tap the led ground wires into that one wire, run that one wire to the switch to the ACC post, then ground the switch to the chassis / body

it will keep your led from coming on with the curt lights unless the led switch is in the on position and the curt lights will function as normal

riptricket · **Posted:** Mon May 17, 2010 10:51 pm

okay you rock! that worked perfectly... I am just stupid and was putting the ground wire on one side of the switch so that when I flipped the switch nothing happened... I am retarrrrded
Thanks for the help!

ga_repoman · **Posted:** Mon May 17, 2010 11:21 pm

pictures pictures
lets see those lights

riptricket · **Posted:** Tue May 18, 2010 12:41 am

might have to wait... I am gunna try install atleast the under jeep lights... I still don't know what kind of glue that I am going to use to attach to the under carriage, of course after I have cleaned it thoroughly... any thoughts>

JeepinJarhead03 · **Posted:** Tue May 18, 2010 12:29 pm

i'm not sure what you're leds look like

i've seen several that had a threaded neck, with a threaded nut quite similar to center thread switches for the dash and what not

if so, you could make some C or L shaped tabs and use self tapping screws to attach the bracket and drill the hole for the LED to sit through

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