So sort of as-promised, but decided to go in a little different direction. As you can see from the previous pictures I have a
DD 30" Light Bar and
Morimoto 2-Banger Pod lights. I also purchased a number of
WeatherPack Connectors and
2-Way Splitters from SPV to shore-up the wiring.
Well after planning out the wiring and really thinking about it I decided to alter my hardware plans. I ended up purchasing some
Strands Qube Pod Lights from Brightsource in Canada (they were the only NA retailer I could find). as I really liked the backlight bar and overall brightness of the Qube. As it turns out, there's now a US retailer for
Strands in the US that will make it a little more straightforward to purchase and they offer harnesses from Brightsource (so win/win for both parties). In order to get the Qube Amber backlight to work I purchased a
Bronco Backlight Adapter from SPV to make that part plug/play.
Even though I purchased the additional harness for the Qube I ended up building my own extension harness and then used the SPV 2-Way Splitters to bring everything together. If I would have used the harness that I purchased with the Qube I would have had to modify it anyway to remove the button mechanism from the system.
Here's a picture of my home-made harness using the connectors for the Qubes along with some 14-gauge wire wrapped with harness tape and the 2-way splitters to bring it all together:
When it came time to get it all installed it took me a minute to figure out where the connectors were for the headlights to insert the SPV Backlight Adapter. As it turns out they have a
video walking you through it that I had missed...but easy enough as it's under the airbox.
After taking my time and getting everything installed, tie-wrapped and put back together I have some initial pictures of the Qubes with the backlights turned on. I have them turned out ~10deg right now but might fine-tune after testing them out at night.
So now I'm at the point of deciding what to do with the light bar. I'm highly tempted to sell the DD bar that I purchased and go buy the
32" Strands single row curved light bar and have it connect into the backlight adapter as well. So if anyone is interested in the DD 30" Combo light bar, it's going to be up for sale soon. It comes with all amber lenses + 3 clear driving lenses if you prefer that output.