Ambient Cup Holder lighting - Opinions?

[NickPic83]

could u tell us a little more about how this is installed? i know u said we tap the shifter wires for the lights but how/where do we run the wires thru to get them in there for the front and rear cup holders? also do u have any pics of the actual footwell lights? can we take the power from the shifter for those also, without any issues of an overload? how do the footwell lights mount?

 

[TheDoubleAA]

could u tell us a little more about how this is installed? i know u said we tap the shifter wires for the lights but how/where do we run the wires thru to get them in there for the front and rear cup holders? also do u have any pics of the actual footwell lights? can we take the power from the shifter for those also, without any issues of an overload? how do the footwell lights mount?

for the cup holder the wire wire will be ran below the rubber cup holders and a small hole drilled below there with wires running to the shift light. (i'll post pictures tonight)

Foot well lights are 3m taped below footwells for really any area you want and wiring will be ran through console fairly easy as the whole console is pretty much clipped together.

The rears, a small hole will need to be drilled in thecenter and wires ran through console.

(i'll work up some pictures and have a how to later today.

 

[NickPic83]

for the cup holder the wire wire will be ran below the rubber cup holders and a small hole drilled below there with wires running to the shift light. (i'll post pictures tonight)

Foot well lights are 3m taped below footwells for really any area you want and wiring will be ran through console fairly easy as the whole console is pretty much clipped together.

The rears, a small hole will need to be drilled in thecenter and wires ran through console.

(i'll work up some pictures and have a how to later today.

That sounds great. Thank u!

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[RedTailHawk]

interested and waiting anxiously for install pics...

 

[Killjohnathan]

I definitely want to see install video and or pics before I decide on this one. Drilling holes into the console is scary stuff for us Newbs.

 

[TheDoubleAA]

Hope this helps, I only have a Raptor center console on hand so I'm a bit limited on some pictures. If someone else could help fill in the gaps I'd greatly appreciate it.



Ford Raptor Ambient light cup holder Install.

First you’ll need to put truck in acc mode and pull the shifter back to the farthest position, make sure the brake is on. Pop the cover off, the whole center console cover just pulls right up. You’ll notice that the cup holder comes with the whole set up. You can pull this apart from cover just by pulling out on it.

Now that you have this done you’ll need to decide where to drill the hole for running wires. I chose a mid point where the rubber cup holders will hide the wire flowing downwards and minimal will be seen. **NOTE THE LIGHT IS DESIGNED TO GO ON DRIVERS SIDE AND FACE TOWARDS PASSENGER SIDE SO MAKE SURE TO DRILL ON DRIVER SIDE**
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After drilling hole and running wire give your self a little bit of room and put one of the rubber cup holders in and set your light where you like it, once done remove super sticky tape backing and set light permanently.
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Once you have done this take any slack out of wire and set the other cup holder in place
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Now the hard part is done. You can test the light with a 9V battery or 12V power source.

You'll now to need to tap power from the shift light indicator. This should be pretty simple as you already have the center console section out and can follow the wire back to the passenger side harness to see the best place to tap. I didn't get pictures of this the other day but the blue wire was the power wire (red) and black was negative (black). I include 3m fold over vampire style connectors to tap inline wires.

Once you have tapped the wires you can test to make sure everything works but turning on the vehicle ** MAKE SURE YOU PUT TRUCK BACK IN PARK** You'll also need to turn on the head lights as this circuit is only active when the head lights are on.

Now the light should be working and now you can set the cup holder in its slot and snap the console back together.

The last part will be putting the illuminated cup holder plate in place (this can be removed along with rubber cup holders for easy cleaning with out removing the light)
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This is a bench test but should give you an idea of what the light and plate look like.

 

[NickPic83]

Click on Video and you can see the intensity of the lighting at full and low power.

do u have a similar video to this but with the led's in the actual location the kit will come in? this video looks to have the LED close to the dash while ur kit looks to actually have it on the driver side inbetween the holders.


BTW thank you for the pics and write up!

 

[TheDoubleAA]

do u have a similar video to this but with the led's in the actual location the kit will come in? this video looks to have the LED close to the dash while ur kit looks to actually have it on the driver side inbetween the holders.


BTW thank you for the pics and write up!

I had to rethink the design for people that want to install themselves. I needed something that would be easy to install and that would be able to be removed easily. The orig. design in the video would have you drimmelling out the ends for the plate to sit in and I figured people would be more like to drill one single hole to run the strip than cut into the physical cup holder on each end.
On a side note: the strip on the side brightens the center logo better and cup holder holes themselves illuminate very nicely as well.

 

[NickPic83]

thanks, i got ya. it doesnt have to be right away or anything but the next chance get could u snap a pic in the dark of this lit up with the side mounted leds like u r selling it?

 

[TheDoubleAA]

this is of side mounted with 9v battery. On the higher settings on the car power they'll be a bit brighter.