Need a constant hot wire in the bed

[AARaptor]

Installing a bed cover this weekend, and will be installing lights under it. Anyone found a constant hot wire in the bed so I tap my lights into it?
Thanks

 

[Antho]

Assuming you don’t have the factory bed lights? What kind of lights are you installing?

 

[AARaptor]

Assuming you don’t have the factory bed lights? What kind of lights are you installing?

I do have the factory lights, but want a little more. I bought 2 of the Kingpin 40” LED’s

 

[The Car Stereo Company]

you can try the constant in the trailer plug, but depending on how much current you are drawing, you may just need to run a new wire from the battery

 

[AARaptor]

you can try the constant in the trailer plug, but depending on how much current you are drawing, you may just need to run a new wire from the battery

Any idea how much current that can handle? According to the specs for the lights, they are 1A each, and I will have 2.

 

[figure1a]

2A is not much at all. I would tap into the existing lights and then they would run off the same switch.

 

[AARaptor]

2A is not much at all. I would tap into the existing lights and then they would run off the same switch.

I am installing a diamondback bed cover that opens in the front. One of the lights will be there, so going and opening the tailgate to turn the lights on doesn’t really work. Want to have constant power to the lights so I can operate them on their own

 

[FoxNotch]

Put the lights on one of your auxiliary switches, assuming you have them.