LED Reverse Light Bars?

I saw some member on here that mounted some small LED light bars to the back of his taco/bottom of his rear bumper for better visibility. Anybody on here have more info or done this as well?

What lights/light bars do you guys recommend for this? How would I go about wiring it up?

I really want to do this as backing up at night without a backup camera and very little light from my reverse lights freaks me out. Any help is appreciated.

 

Not an LED but I picked up a nice compact projector light off Ebay for $30 and wired it straight to the hitch reverse light wire harness.

 

Did you tap into the wire (with a T-Tap) or find a way to keep the stick trailer harness intact?

 

If you check out the lighting forum, there are a ton of threads on this. I wired mine to a spdt (on-off-on), it's set up to either be off, on with acc or on with reverse.

I used some cheap kragen halogens, they help, but the beam isn't ideal. I also have a blitzpro 6lz... It's small, inexpensive, sturdy and throws out a pretty decent flood.

 

Yes I used a T tap.

 

Blitzpro 6lz is perfect for those lights and is only $30 shipped

 

Not a light bar but a couple of KC's on the top back of my rack, I wired them to a separate switch in the cab for the 'anytime' function. I used low-volt out door lighting wire to run the wires down under the truck, zip-tied either to the frame or to the other wires that run under there, to the engine bay and to a standard lighting relay. If you are running an LED bar, chances are good that you could probably wire the hot lead into the reverse circuit at one of the tail lights. The trick would be to make sure the circuit can handle the load so you don't burn anything up. First would be to find which fuse runs the reverse lights in your main fuse block. I would think it's probably a 10 amp fuse. Then you have to figure out what the stock lights use in amps. You take the wattage output of the bulbs say 20 watts each, add those together and divide by 12 (volts of your system) 20+20=40 divided by twelve = 3.33 amps. If it is a 10 amp fuse, you have 6 amps left to play with. When you look at lights, find one that uses 5-6 amps and you should be good to wire it this way. If that doesn't work you could pull out the stock bulbs giving you all the available amperage to use for you LED's.
NEVER put a higher rated fuse into a circuit.

 

Those will keep people from tailgating you at night.

 

why yes! Yes they do

 

To add to Acdronin, as far as amp draw and such; the blitzpro 6lz that's been mentioned, only draws 0.5 amps.

You could also do the reverse light upgrade, from the stock 17 or 18w bulbs to the 55w bulbs (search "reverse light mod"). But if you do that, and you still want to add additional reverse lights, you'll have to run a new power wire, because the stock rev lamp fuse is 10a, and the 55w bulbs get pretty close to pushing that.

 

Good deal, i thought is was a 10 amp. Yeah the smaller LED's give off lots of flood for not a lot of amps