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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Specialtyperformanceparts" data-source="post: 1703788" data-attributes="member: 24406">Ok, so think of it like this. which light you put in any position, is irrelevant to what switch or connection you hook it up to.Imagine if you have a TV with 3 HDMI ports. Then you have a DVD Player, a Cable Box and a PlayStation.They all have the same connections type (HDMI) and you can plug any of them in any order to any of the 3 HDMI ports you choose.So that will be your personal choice.Amps are obviously a question if you combined all of them onto one switch or something, depending on what models you chose... But most of the Pod lights are between 1 and 2 amps each. You can put one pair on any of those switches. Even the fog switch. You can also get away with the 5 amp switch wires of 5 and 6, but it cuts it close. Odds are, any single pair of pod lights that fits in there, won't be too much. Aux 1 is 10 amps and I believe the fog switch is too. Even if its 7.5 or even 5, in most cases, you'll be fine. The absolute worse case, you blow a fuse and know the light is too much draw for that switch. I seriously doubt you'll have that issue. On standard F-150's, people connect the same lights to the factory fog switch without issue all the time. So that part isn't really the dilemma. Here is the issue.The fog switch will ALWAYS turn off your fogs or anything you connect to it when you turn on your brights. That's required of manufacturers in new vehicles. If you are ok with that, then you can use that connection.The other issue is that you have one connector for the fog switch and one connector for the Aux 1 on each side in that pocket area. So you can either cut off the factory connectors there and connect the wire to one light on each side. That takes care of 2 of your 3 pairs of lights... then you need to run one harness set of wires down to each side from a 3rd switch. Unless you decided to connect 2 pairs of lights on one switch. Say aux 1 which the connectors are down there for.So, I think you can see the issue with ford putting the connectors down there only.You have 5 switch wires up in the engine bay, and 2 down in the bumper. That sucks, as its a lot easier to start from one location.So these are the things that keep me up at night. Things like that are the reason I developed our Plug N Play Harness system that will work with virtually any light in any vehicle and in any situation. Then we get these curve balls occasionally.When I first started on the truck, I went through all the wiring up by the switches, hoping to find that Aux 1 wire before it ended up in the bumper. Unfortunately, no luck. They routed it elsewhere.So then I went to think up the easiest way for most people to regain access to that without having to cut off wire and tear the truck apart.After all that, I designed a small, simple connector harness to regain your Aux 1 wire, as well as the Fog wire and put them both right there with the other 5 switch wires. Then you have access to all of them right there in one spot! From there, you can connect them to any harness, in any configuration or even different lights.For example. If you have all 7 wires there, you can connect our triple harness to switches 1, 2 and 3 right there by the battery. It will then run to each fog pocket with 3 labeled connectors, 1, 2 and 3, 1, 2 and 3 on each side.Plug them into your lights and you're good to go.Then you have the Fog switch wire up there too. Maybe you don't want to run that to a fog in this situation so they don't shut off when your brights are on. Well, connect it to something like A-Pillar lights... you have it there to use for something else less critical if you want.I think I posted this video earlier on here, but if not, here is the quick run down video I did yesterday. It shows that relocation harness I mentioned here. That gives you a simple, plug n play solution to put you back in control of what you want to hook up to which switch.[MEDIA=youtube]yymSDVLAaXQ[/MEDIA]John</blockquote>

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