Originally Posted by Mark Doiron (Post 3992346)

Attach positive wire to orange/silver striped wire in bundle. Attach negative wire to black wire off Power Outlet.
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Originally Posted by Mark Doiron (Post 3992346)

Alright, got it sorted out for my 2007. Orange and silver wire in bundle behind HVAC controls provides variable dash light power. Black wire off power outlet provides negative.

Originally Posted by aaron97 (Post 3992511)

Yep, 2011 doesn't look anything like that at all...

Originally Posted by Mark Doiron (Post 3992863)

The ground is from the Power Outlet. Works great for me!

Originally Posted by 14Sport (Post 3992868)

Did you happen to try it without running the ground wire?

Originally Posted by Mark Doiron (Post 3993031)

No. It would seem it should work if you just ran ground from the oil pressure gauge light bulb to the vehicle sheetmetal. It would seem, but I have not tried it. I say "it would seem" because it's possible they have a floating ground, in which case you could experience weird problems if you ran to common ground.

Originally Posted by 14Sport (Post 3988272)

I have one of the sPods that has a pushbutton to turn on the bottom array of LEDs, thus allowing easy visibility at night. And you can tell from the rockers that it is the older style of switches. I have not tested this on any other configuration. What I wanted to do was wire this bottom array to a dimmable dash light circuit so when I turn on the dash lights, the array comes on and can be dimmed along with the dash lights. Also, since my sPod is mounted over the windshield, I wanted to be able to shut the array off at night if it becomes annoying when driving around town so I left the push button in the circuit.


For dimmable feeds so far we have:

2007 - 2014 with power windows...orange/gray from power window switches (thanks Vlad)
2014 (maybe 2013?)...orange/gray from footwell light
2007 - 2014...orange/gray from HVAC controls* (thanks Mark)

*May require two wire install. See posts #25-27.


The sPod removed from its bracket.

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The wire that feeds the switch in the sPod. It is black and is fed from the middle pin of the last switch. This is where you need to cut.

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In order to remove the sPod in the future, a connector should be attached to the new feed wire. I used Weather Pack connectors since the sPod is not water-tight and I go topless sometimes.

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I added heat shrink tubing to the end of the unused wire. You can also see the completed weather pack connector. The other side of the connector feeds about 6 feet of 18 gauge wire which I will snake down to the drivers foot well.

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I snaked the new wire (blue) along the same path as the interceptor wire, which is behind the header trim and down the a pillar trim and then out at the foot well. I managed to tuck the wire behind the sun visor trim by just loosening it.

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Originally Posted by SJ21XDC (Post 3999397)

Thanks for the write up - works great!

FYI - On my 2010 Rubicon, I picked up the dimmable power at the window switches. There are (4) orange wires behind the switch panel. Three are approximately the same size (2) Orange with blue stripes and (1) Orange with gray stripe (I tapped this first and it blew the 5 amp fuse on the Source). The other wire is orange with a gray stripe and is smaller than the other three. This is the one that ended up working for me. Here's a picture of the wire that I used. Attachment 580740