Electrical Advice - Installing Kingpin Light on Rear Hatch

[mcd_ovrlnd]

I am no wiring wiz, so was looking for a plug and play way to wire up a Kingpin light on the rear hatch (https://kingpinequipped.com/collections/f-series-lights/products/f-series-28-light). The Kingpin has power requirements of 4 Watts (12V DC @ .3 Amps). It comes with a wire lead 12" in length, 20AWG, bare wire ends.

I purchased one of those Highflying dome lights for the rear hatch but decided not to use it.

The Highflying light comes with a harness that plugs into the power source used for the rear hatch open/close button. From what I've found on the internet, that power source is 12V DC. Could I install the harness and then cut off the dome light and splice the positive/negative end wires from its harness to the wires for the Kingpin light? Assuming the AWG used on the Highflying harness are adequate for the Kingpin since they both seem to use watts/amps in the same range.

Would appreciate any thoughts. Thanks.

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[26RunnerORP]

I actually did exactly this, I cut off the harness from that dome light and spliced in the kingpin light, and it works just fine!

 

[mcd_ovrlnd]

I actually did exactly this, I cut off the harness from that dome light and spliced in the kingpin light, and it works just fine!

Dude, this is awesome, thanks so much.

 

[26RunnerORP]

No problem! And it’ll come on when you open the hatch! I got this because it has the red option to match my Meso Customs dome lights

 

[zcmack]

post a pic of the harness from the high flying light please, I'll find it on mcmaster.

 

[mcd_ovrlnd]

No problem! And it’ll come on when you open the hatch! I got this because it has the red option to match my Meso Customs dome lights

Now I want to disable all the other lights in the cargo area including the LED ones I paid extra for. They are so damn bright and you can’t turn any of them off.

 

[26RunnerORP]

Ya, it kinda sucks but hey, they match the courtesy light that come on at the bottom of the doors so I guess there’s that

 

[mcd_ovrlnd]

Ya, it kinda sucks but hey, they match the courtesy light that come on at the bottom of the doors so I guess there’s that

Question for you, did you mount the 28” or 40” Kingpin on the rear hatch?

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