Installing DRL strip with built in turn signal wire help

[corneileous]

Ok so I'm in canada so we have drl activated. Not sure what setting is in alfa just because I do have drl lights (yellow orange) turn signals..

Ok so if I want this strip to power on white when the vehicle starts what would I tap into ?

On my jeep as soon as I start it the led strip powers on and I'm tapped into drl it's a cherokee trailhawk. So I was thinking the ram would be the same.

Yeah I forgot you were in Canada and already have your DRLs activated and Im pretty sure dedicated is what was chosen so have you like, put a mirror in front of your truck so you can see if the DRLs turn on as soon as you take the transmission out of Park? I say this because on my 2018 with DRL’s, they don’t activate until the transmission is moved out of Park. I’m not sure about how Jeeps work but it is very possible they could have those set up differently.

But if you want the white DRL’s to work essentially like how your Jeep does, just get you a fuse tap and tap into the fuse in the fuse box under the hood that should be marked ignition coils.

But just so you know and probably unlike your Jeep, if you connect your DRLS that way, they’ll be on all the time, day and night.

 

[ToxicFire]

Yeah I forgot you were in Canada and already have your DRLs activated and Im pretty sure dedicated is what was chosen so have you like, put a mirror in front of your truck so you can see if the DRLs turn on as soon as you take the transmission out of Park? I say this because on my 2018 with DRL’s, they don’t activate until the transmission is moved out of Park. I’m not sure about how Jeeps work but it is very possible they could have those set up differently.

But if you want the white DRL’s to work essentially like how your Jeep does, just get you a fuse tap and tap into the fuse in the fuse box under the hood that should be marked ignition coils.

But just so you know and probably unlike your Jeep, if you connect your DRLS that way, they’ll be on all the time, day and night.

F95 work?

 

[corneileous]

F95 work?

Yeah, I’d have to wait until I get home this evening to see what circuit that is in my truck and if I can remember which one I used but according to this from startmycar.com for your 2014 1500, F95 is a 10 amp fuse that goes to your rear camera/park assist and that if you want your ignition coil circuit, that website tells you to use F63 which is a 20 amp fuse that it says are for your ignition coils.

But either way regardless, it really doesn’t matter which fuse you use as long as the circuit you use goes live when you want it to whether it be when the key is turned the first click to accessory, the second click to run or like in this case, once your engine is started and the way you do that is you take a test light or a fuse tester to make sure the top contacts of that fuse isn’t live when it’s not supposed to be.

For example, when I hooked up my lights for the very first time, I hooked them up the way you’re wanting to do it so that since I had already found the fuse location I was going to use, I just made sure the two little metal contacts on the top of the fuse didn't light up my test light until after the engine was started.

Also, I would highly recommend using a fuse tap like this one so that whatever circuit in the fuse box you use can still have its original fuse and then you’ll have the slot right next to it that will protect whatever you hook to those wires and also, that fuse tap in the Amazon link is for micro fuses so you might wanna make sure what size fuses your PDC uses because that start my car website up there says that your fuse box uses the mini fuses so when you click on the link, it’ll give you options for whatever size fuse you’re wanting to tap into.

But just out of curiosity so that I know whether if it worked or not but when you had your lights hooked up to the DRL circuit in your headlight wiring harness, did they actually turn on after taking the transmission out of Park?? You never did answer….

 

[ToxicFire]

Yeah, I’d have to wait until I get home this evening to see what circuit that is in my truck and if I can remember which one I used but according to this from startmycar.com for your 2014 1500, F95 is a 10 amp fuse that goes to your rear camera/park assist and that if you want your ignition coil circuit, that website tells you to use F63 which is a 20 amp fuse that it says are for your ignition coils.

But either way regardless, it really doesn’t matter which fuse you use as long as the circuit you use goes live when you want it to whether it be when the key is turned the first click to accessory, the second click to run or like in this case, once your engine is started and the way you do that is you take a test light or a fuse tester to make sure the top contacts of that fuse isn’t live when it’s not supposed to be.

For example, when I hooked up my lights for the very first time, I hooked them up the way you’re wanting to do it so that since I had already found the fuse location I was going to use, I just made sure the two little metal contacts on the top of the fuse didn't light up my test light until after the engine was started.

Also, I would highly recommend using a fuse tap like this one so that whatever circuit in the fuse box you use can still have its original fuse and then you’ll have the slot right next to it that will protect whatever you hook to those wires and also, that fuse tap in the Amazon link is for micro fuses so you might wanna make sure what size fuses your PDC uses because that start my car website up there says that your fuse box uses the mini fuses so when you click on the link, it’ll give you options for whatever size fuse you’re wanting to tap into.

But just out of curiosity so that I know whether if it worked or not but when you had your lights hooked up to the DRL circuit in your headlight wiring harness, did they actually turn on after taking the transmission out of Park?? You never did answer….

Ok so i never did get out there to try taking it out of park to see the drl function as i was running late for a car show yesterday and well now its down pour thunder storms since 2am and its suppose to last all week haha so hopefully if we get a break im going to check the drl function.

So now if i wanted the light to work when i put the truck in acc and not actually start the truck what fuze would i tap into for this haha.

I purchase micro2 fuse taps and hopefully there here by end of week but amazon is slow out here.

 

[corneileous]

Ok so i never did get out there to try taking it out of park to see the drl function as i was running late for a car show yesterday and well now its down pour thunder storms since 2am and its suppose to last all week haha so hopefully if we get a break im going to check the drl function.

So now if i wanted the light to work when i put the truck in acc and not actually start the truck what fuze would i tap into for this haha.

I purchase micro2 fuse taps and hopefully there here by end of week but amazon is slow out here.

All I can tell you is like what I told you in my last post which was, you’re just gonna have to find you a circuit in your fuse box that will start having power to it after the first turn of the key or first press of the start button.

But one thing about it though, I would highly advise against using a circuit that comes on as soon as the first twist of the key or the first press of your start button if that’s what you have because I had my old 2008 Ram set up that way and if I would’ve kept the truck a little bit longer than what I did, I would’ve done something different and set it up so that they didn’t turn on At least until the key was turned to the second position or after the engine was started.

 

[ToxicFire]

Ok so got it wired to both head lights, and just connecting to batter for power it works like it should so once i get the tap in ill finnish the job and post a finnished update. You guys have been great with the help. @Corneeeeelius a special thanks to you for putting up with the questions

 

[corneileous]

Ok so got it wired to both head lights, and just connecting to batter for power it works like it should so once i get the tap in ill finnish the job and post a finnished update. You guys have been great with the help. @Corneeeeelius a special thanks to you for putting up with the questions

You’re welcome.

So if you’ve just got it to your battery, how do you turn them off when you’re done?

But I’m curious though… How exactly do you want your white DRL‘s to work?

 

[ToxicFire]

You’re welcome.

So if you’ve just got it to your battery, how do you turn them off when you’re done?

But I’m curious though… How exactly do you want your white DRL‘s to work?

So i just connected to battery for testing and to see how they look. Currently i dont have it connected as im waiting on the taps.

Id idealy like my white light to turn on when i unlock the truck.(like my jeep) then if i relock the truck with remote the strip turns off.
Now if thats not possible then just when i turn the truck to acc would be nice as this strip is rgb so if im parked at a meet or car show ect i can just have acc on and the lights would be working.

 

[corneileous]

So i just connected to battery for testing and to see how they look. Currently i dont have it connected as im waiting on the taps.

Id idealy like my white light to turn on when i unlock the truck.(like my jeep) then if i relock the truck with remote the strip turns off.
Now if thats not possible then just when i turn the truck to acc would be nice as this strip is rgb so if im parked at a meet or car show ect i can just have acc on and the lights would be working.

OK, so lemmie try to get a little bit more of an understanding of what you’re wanting to happen here…

So like, for example, you need to walk out to your truck to get something out of it, do you want your white DRL’s to turn on when you unlock the truck and you want them to stay on the whole time you’re doing whatever it is you’re doing and then turn off when you lock the truck back up? If I’m understanding you correctly, I’m not too sure how you would do that and still have them work as normal when you’re driving down the road during the day.

It almost kind of sounds like the only way you’d be able to do that is you would have to use one of those special five terminal relays to where you would essentially have two different types of switching to make your lights do two different things which is what I’m gonna probably try to do one of these days later on in the year when it cools off, which is move my white DRL power wires from the DRL circuit that used to go to my headlights, but use one of these special relays so that basically what the end result would be is that as soon as I start my truck, my white DRL‘s will turn on, but once I run a wire from my marker lights to a specific terminal on this relay, that would actually make my white DRL’s turn off essentially once the headlights were switched on so that they won’t be on all the time like they were the first time I had my lights hooked up like that when I had them tapped into the fuse box for the fuse that went to my ignition coils but in your case, you’d probably have to do something different that would allow you to tap into the circuit that doesn’t necessarily go to your puddle lights on the bottom of your Sideview mirrors, but you’d have to tap in into that circuit that basically turns on your marker lights and your puddle lights when you lock and unlock the truck. I just don’t know how you would do that. Maybe @crash68 will be able to offer some help on that being that he was the one that showed me how to make my daytime running lights work so that they work as normal during the day but they would also turn off as soon as the headlights are switched on. Basically making them like they are now but instead of my lights not turning on until I shift the transmission out of Park, they would turn on as soon as the engine starts.

But if this wasn’t possible, you could still achieve the same thing, you would just have to tap into the right circuit in the fuse box so that as soon as you turn the key to the first position or push the start button one time- depending on which ignition you have, you’ll achieve the same thing. On a sidenote, I don’t know if I told you this before, but on my old truck, that’s how I had my white DRL‘s hooked up in such a way was that just from the first turn the key, those lights would turn on. Of course, I really wasn’t crazy about it like that but I just never tried to pursue any other way to not make them do that because it wasn’t long after I hooked all that up with those new headlights on my truck when I bought my new truck so I never messed with it any further.

 

[crash68]

Maybe @crash68 will be able to offer some help on that being that he was the one that showed me how to make my daytime running lights work so that they work as normal during the day but they would also turn off as soon as the headlights are switched on.

Here's a link to the thread explaining the how to:

Wiring aftermarket DRL lighting so that they turn on during the day but off at night….

….without having to use the factory DRL wires that go to the headlights for the premium projector headlight trucks. Right now the white DRL’s in my aftermarket foglights and the white DRL’s in my switchback DRL/turnsignal light bars that I have mounted above my front tow hooks are wired to the...

www.ramforum.com

 

[corneileous]

Here's a link to the thread explaining the how to:

Wiring aftermarket DRL lighting so that they turn on during the day but off at night….

….without having to use the factory DRL wires that go to the headlights for the premium projector headlight trucks. Right now the white DRL’s in my aftermarket foglights and the white DRL’s in my switchback DRL/turnsignal light bars that I have mounted above my front tow hooks are wired to the...

www.ramforum.com

That’s just in reference to what I was wanting to do, not what this other guy is wanting to do that I’m talking to. He’s wanting his to turn on whenever he locks or unlocks the truck if I’m understanding him correctly.

 

[ToxicFire]

That’s just in reference to what I was wanting to do, not what this other guy is wanting to do that I’m talking to. He’s wanting his to turn on whenever he locks or unlocks the truck if I’m understanding him correctly.

Yes correct turn on when i unlock the truck my headlights/ front yellows and rear tails all turn on for i think 30 seconds.
Then i also want them to be on in the daytime and at night when driving.

However if thats not possible then i just want them to turn on when i hit the button to acc in the truck. I have push button start. Turn off when i shut the truck down.

 

[crash68]

Yes correct turn on when i unlock the truck my headlights/ front yellows and rear tails all turn on for i think 30 seconds.
Then i also want them to be on in the daytime and at night when driving.

However if thats not possible then i just want them to turn on when i hit the button to acc in the truck. I have push button start. Turn off when i shut the truck down.

I think what might work for you is to wire the lights using a SPDT(5 terminals) relay to terminal #30. Wire +12V hot all the time(fused battery) to terminal 87. Find a circuit in the fuse box that goes how when the vehicle accessory power is on, wire that to 87a.
The relay coil wires will go-to one of the lights that illuminate when you lock/unlocked the vehicle (approach lighting).
This should give you both options, it will light when you approach the vehicle and be able to turn them on with accessory power.