Keep melting switches?? Baja squadron pro podlights

[honda250xtitan]

interesting, I asked baja about this and they did not reply. I haven't seen anyone actually wire this new style of harness to a CH4x4 or AOB style switch. I did take a look at the thread posted above but I do not want my switch light to be illuminated all the time even when the truck is off. too bad, really like the baja s2 lights but might have to rethink purchasing those. it seems like cali raised has the simplest wiring. sure their lights are not going to be better than baja but the price is good and if it's occasional use then maybe that makes more sense for people like me

my switches are only on when the lights are on.....all you do is NOT plug in one of the wires off the CH4x4 switch. i didnt want to tap into the OEM harness anyways so its easier.

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i see now the 3amp fuse recommendation in the schematic posted earlier in this thread that you had referenced lolol.

 

[Humble Leader]

You should be able to run power from the truck dash lighting to light the switch up when the lights come on. You do not have to power the light on the switch with the same power source for the lights themselves. If you know what I mean.

my switches are only on when the lights are on.....all you do is NOT plug in one of the wires off the CH4x4 switch. i didnt want to tap into the OEM harness anyways so its easier.

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i see now the 3amp fuse recommendation in the schematic posted earlier in this thread that you had referenced lolol.

I actually received a reply from Baja last night. apparently their new harnesses have three leads, white, black and blue for a switch (12v, load and ground). they connect up the OEM switches. the harness includes a relay so you can wire the 12v switch power to the harness switch directly without the need for a 3amp fuse. I believe their old harnesses had a different wiring pattern which caused a lot of installation confusion, even with the included relay (their website still has the old harness picture). I suppose you could wire the 12v OEM switch to something that doesn't get constant power if you wanted (like the arb compressors how they tap into IGN)

I'm with you, I don't care for the switch to illuminate when the dash lights go on. I just sealed off that wire for my ARB and will do the same thing with the baja. the text is small and hard to read anyway when it's lit up. my philosophy is to have as little disturbing of factory wiring as possible, even using add a fuse, only when necessary because I tend to break things lmao

 

[Humble Leader]

Ok I just wanted to post an update to hopefully help someone in the future. I ordered the baja s2 pro ditch lights and their new harness. I guess their new harnesses with a relay come standard with their light kit, so I ended up getting two harnesses, both the same, both new. I can confirm there's a relay and there are three wires coming off the toggle switch that you can run into the cab and wire easily to a CH4x4 or similar OEM switch

I did need to extend the power wire from the relay to the in line fuse with about 8" of extra wire so I could run it cleanly and have it sit where I wanted it do

the relay mount hole is not an m8 (ugh) so REMOVE it before you drill an m8 size hold unless you want to tap an m6 hole in the fender... it's super flimsy and support it very good when you drill or you will bend it like I did - which is where that second harness and relay mount comes in handy lol

I left the ditch lights on a while and didn't notice the switch getting hot at all