I completed the installation of the E-Series LED lights from Rigid Industries yesterday.
I had previously done the mechanical installation of the lights (as noted above) and all that remained was to make the electrical connections. I took my time as I wanted to make sure I understood the wiring in the Raptor from the factory and how I was going to connect everything.
While the Rigid Industries installation instructions are quite good I still found them lacking in regard to clarity. I'm sure my need to understand it completely first caused me to study them in detail. In any case, I got it done and everything worked the first time so it's all good.
Here is some information you might find helpful if you're installing these great Rigid Industries lights or any other devices to your 4 factory-supplied Upfitter Switches:
Notes:
1. After I installed the lights and prior to running the wires from them to the wires for the switches (Rigid Industries provides some very nice wiring harnesses), I identified which wires on the Dually harness were which and I put a piece of tape around the wires that were for the outer Duallys (at both ends of the harness). This enabled me to connect the wires to the inner and outer Dually lights when I was under the truck and connect the other ends of the wires to the underhood wires coming from the switches.
2. Ford decided to give us these great switches but not run the wires all the way underhood. Instead they ran the wires from the switches to the area behind the glovebox. They also provided us with wires from this behind-the-glovebox-area to an easy-to-access location under the hood just above the passenger side fender liner. The wires from the switches need to be connected to the wires going under the hood. Unfortunately, these connections need to be made in the area behind the glovebox. Ford gave us very little wire to work with in this area and it makes what could be a very simple task much more challenging than it needs to be.
3. You can hook up the wires from the switches to the wires under the hood any way you want as long as you consider the needs of your electrical devices and the power provided by each circuit. If you follow my connections (which I believe are the same as Rigid's instructions) you still have the option of connecting lights and other devices to any of the four underhood wires (Red, Green, Blue, Purple colored wires).
Amps...Upfitter Switch #...Wire Color Behind Glovebox from Switches...Wire Color Underhood
...30..............1..................Yelllow...........................................................Red
...30..............2..................Green with brown stripe.................................Green
...15..............3..................Purple with green stripe.................................Blue
...10..............4..................Brown (this is the thinnest of the 4 wires).......Purple
In my opinion the instructions provided were not as clear about the colors and making the connections of the 2 sets of wires that are grouped together in the area behind the glovebox. Perhaps others will find this helpful.
Here are the 8 wires in the area behind the glovebox. You can see the ends of all the wires have a black shrinktube termination on them. I used my wire stripper to remove much of these terminations.
Another picture of these wires:
which should be behind the bumper.
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