Cab roof lights without drilling!

Ive always been a fan cab rooftop lights, but never wanted to drill into the roof. Just came across these things, they are solar, remote controlled, and they just stick on with double sided tape.

https://caboveramerica.com/product/wireless-cab-running-lights/

 

400 dollars though

 

Yeah, there a few things Im not sold on. Mainly the price, and that if they get out of sync, you have to take off the one thats out of sync, move it out of range of the rest, then set it to the setting the rest of them are on.

I think these could be improved by making them a little simpler with some better tech. They are relying on 5 lights to be able to get the same signal to turn on/off. It would be much better to have a single light get the remote signal, then pass that signal over to the other lights. Then using some simple programming you can detect if 4 lights are on and one is off, to turn the one thats off on.

lightState = (this would be true or false based on the master lights state)
lights = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] // this would be each lights address
for (i = 0; i >= lights.length; i++) {
if (lights.state != lightState)
lights.state = lightState;
}
}

Or something like this. Also having each light have a pairing button so you can choose how many lights will link to the master would be nice if you want 4 lights, 3 lights, or 20 lights.

 

I agree, they look great but practicality isn’t all there and they might be too big for our tacos.

 

I wonder how well a wireless charging system would work instead of solar. Seems to me you could put wireless chargers into the headliner mounted right up to the roofs metal, then have each light be wireless charging (they would have batteries in them still) But you could send a signal to them via the wireless charger by triple pulsing power into the unit to tell it to turn on. Sure not a ton of people would be willing to pull the headliner to install these, but people who install normal ones take the headliner down anyways to drill and run wires. I know wireless charging has some issues with metal, but there are methods out now that can go through metal without creating heat.

By removing the solar panels, the sizes of these could be reduced by a huge amount, would charge anytime the truck is running, and get rid of that key fob remote (I hate key fob remotes for turning on lights)

 

Yeah a I loose my keys and bough as it is, that key fob is one more thing to break or loose.