I'm wanting to add some lighting to the front 3 compartments. My plan is to wire them all together and put them on the unused accessory switch at the console so when I flip it on, all the compartment lighting turns on. Really...I think just adding 4 feet of LED strip lighting to each side of the rod box will probably be enough. Execution, I think, looks pretty simple. There's a tiny hole in the front corners of each compartment that the wiring can run through and I can then run all the wiring to the dash via the wiring tube. Going /w 18g wire and 2x 2ft LED white 50/50 strips on each side of the rod box and possibly 1 on each side of each of the side boxes. My question is placement. I haven't found much in the way of guys adding the lighting to the rod box. Anybody have any pics or thoughts of where they put them? My first instinct was to put them under the lip on each side. There's no carpet and it will go almost unnoticeable. I'm going to use some 3M VHB adhesive for the strips. I wanted 2 of the cook's goto tackle bars under the rod locker lid and /w the 1 support bar, I used some of that 3m VHB to hold them to that one bar instead of drilling. That stuff is amazing....anyway... Is 2 LED strips on each side too much? Will just 1x 2ft strip on each side suffice?
I haven't looked too hard under the dash at the switch yet but does anybody know if I need to wire anything particular for this? I looked once and I believe there is a black/white stripe (might be black/red stripe) coming off the switch that goes to I think the fuse panel on the side. Assuming this switch has power to it already (I'm pretty sure it illuminates when I switch it on, I'll check soon), can I just put a spade connector on the hot wire of the LEDs, the ground wire of the LEDs, and then put them on the acc switch and good to go? I guess I could also just wire them + the current under dash LED together and use that switch.