I'm trying to wire my new D2s to the foglight wiring. I've installed the lights in the bumper to replace the factory fogs. I've got the Ridgid wiring hooked to the battery, but I'm unsure how to wire the three wires in the Ridgid harness to the foglight wiring which will act as an on/off switch for the Ridgid relay. Can anyone help?

 

What wattage are your bumper lights? If they are LED we should be able to wire them together. If they are anything else you'll need to wire in a relay. You can use you existing fog lamp wiring as the trigger signal for one or more relays. The down side to this is you auxillary lighting will only work on low beams as the factory wiring turns off the fog lamps with high beams. My suggestion would be to keep your bumper lights on the fog lamp circuit and wire the rigid lights on their own switch.

 

They're LEDs so the current draw isn't that much. I don't like having lights all over the JK so that's why I put them in the bumper.

Do you know which wires I should wire the relay to?

 

You'll have to check over the wiring because rIgid did change up their harnesses between when I first bought them a couple years ago and a purchase a couple months ago.

Pull up a diagram for the relay (sorry I don't have one to post here)- you'll have a positive and negative (you know where they go) then you'll have a lead that goes to the positive on the rigid harness (chop the whole thing from the switch- you'll only need the 2 wires) and the other wire on your relay needs to receive a + signal from your fog light switch (tap your wiring harness). Then just hook the negative of the rigid harness to the frame or you can run a dedicated line all the way back to the battery, but it's overkill.

Put a fuse inline from the power to the positive side of the relay, the old style rigid's didn't come with a fuse, new ones do.

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Thanks. I'll give it a try.

 

i just wired mine directly into the old fog light connections. almost plug and play and i get to use the stock switch.

 

Good suggestion but he said he's already got lights there and wants to piggyback these there too.

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So you want to essentially use the Rigid harness to power the lights, then use one of the factory wires as signal to use the factory switch, rather than the Rigid switch?


Edit: Karl's hit it head on. Let us know how you like that!

 

Yes I want to use the fog switch to trigger the lights through the harness.

I did a direct replacement of the fogs with the Ridgids , but got a lot of flicker when they were off.

 

A little capacitor in line with the rigids would have fixed the flicker. There was a topic on it quite recently. But- what you've got set up will work as you intend it to.

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