Anyone installed a truck bed lighting kit? Any pitfalls I should be aware of? I want something where the switch is located in the back at the tailgate. Can be flipped on when packing up after a night of hunting etc… I plan to run a hot wire all the way up to the fuse panel.
Looking at something like this:
Good post! I am getting my new topper Wed and if the light that comes with it is not bright enough I too would be interested in some quality bed lighting.
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Good post! I am getting my new topper Wed and if the light that comes with it is not bright enough I too would be interested in some quality bed lighting.
Use your new flashlight. 
Tap lights work pretty good too 
I just got a new truck and topper last month. I added a 12″ access led light. I put it on the driver side back corner of the topper. It is more than enough light for me. Fleet farm has them for about $34 bucks. You could even put one on each side but I think 1 is enough.
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I just got a new truck and topper last month. I added a 12″ access led light. I put it on the driver side back corner of the topper. It is more than enough light for me. Fleet farm has them for about $34 bucks. You could even put one on each side but I think 1 is enough.
Battery or wired?
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Tap lights work pretty good too
What are Tap Lights?
One really nice thing I’ve found with the easy availability of LED lights these days, is that I can easily add red LED lighting to places where it’s very handy to have the option NOT to kill your night vision with white light.
I added red LED lights to my boat, for example, so when night fishing I can have the interior boat lights on, but preserve my abiltiy to see outside the boat. Very handy.
Might be worth wiring up one or two as long as you’re doing the bed lights?
Grouse
Kooty, if you didn’t live so #(&$$#o far away we could be doing projects like this together!!!!!!!!!
So it’s my fault YOU live in Woodbury? 
I’ll have to recruit Matt Grow. He likes man projects in the garage.
East side rules! West side drools….
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East side rules! West side drools….
Yeah, except for Kooty lives so far west that he’s not even on the west side.
You can see Russia from his house. I’m surprised he even has the interweb out there in the middle of Nowhereistan, I heard indoor plumbing is still a novelty.
Grouse
There are toilets in houses? Must be nice in January.
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East side rules! West side drools….
Isn’t that what you used to chant in high school Kooty?… You know, when East South Dakota High played Western South Dakota High in sports?
We didn’t pick on the cowboys. We knew they would kick our 
Well, not to there face anyway.
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So it’s my fault YOU live in Woodbury?
I’ll have to recruit Matt Grow. He likes man projects in the garage.
You mean he likes men and projects in the garage….. 
See if I can lure him out.. 
Tap lights were one of the first infomercial products that showed up to my dorm room in Wisconsin. Followed by an electronic ab workout, some sort of crazy chia pet and then a knife set. Apparently when I used to get home after more than my share of 
I was a complete sucker for infomercials 
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