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Hooking up KC flex ditch lights.

Discussion in '3rd Gen. Tacomas (2016-2023)' started by fisherprice1234, Sep 1, 2020.

  1. Sep 1, 2020 at 11:56 PM
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    fisherprice1234

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    I have a 2019 tacoma offroad 4x4. Added some ditch lights kc flex dual pods. For wiring i was wondering if there was a way to hook it up to my meso customs shift knob. I have the ect button moved to the left side of the shifter. And nothing on the right side. Question is is there a way to hook up the lights to this? The lights have 3 wires going to the switch that came in the box. Red, yellow and black. While the meso customs button has only two wires coming from it. Thoughts? Here's the diagram for the kc lights. If I were to leave the switch always on and tie in the meso customs wires to the load wire, would that be right?

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  2. Sep 2, 2020 at 7:40 AM
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    PAC-TR7 to actuate a relay which will substitute the 3 pin switch. PAC-TR7 is actuated by the shift knob switch.

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    P.S. Use an IGN fused source to add juice to the TR7 module, so the switch doesn't turn the lights ON when the vehicles is OFF.
     
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    Thanks for the reply! So the top photo i have the switch already hooked up. So I have a a yellow and white wire coming from the meso shift knob. One of those would go into the input trigger? Showing brown on diagram. What about the other? Yellow or white. So yellow is coming from my battery, with inline fuse to the red part of pac tr7? Then trigger shift knob goes to brown on pactr7? Which one yellow shift wire or white? Then from pactr7 blue to red wire and to lights?
     
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    Is there a way to hook up ditch lights to the shift knob without using the PAC-TR7? The harness that came with my ditch lights already has a relay on it. I have a black, blue, and white wire coming from the ditch light harness and I have the yellow and white wires from the shift knob. What goes to what?
     
  5. Nov 20, 2022 at 8:24 PM
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    The Meso shifter knob uses a cheap switch that can only support 1 amp or less through it, so you would need to run a relay.
     
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    And is non-latching, that is why the TR7 is also required.
     
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    Or a far less expensive latching relay...
     
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    Does anyone have a plug and play application for this connection? I am working on plugging in a Cali Raised ditch light on one side and a Cali Raised hidden light bar on my Meso Pro Stealth shift knob.
    Thanks in advance.
     

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