INTERIOR DOME - LIGHT KILL SWITCH

[BEARKILLER]

While working inside the son's truck, sometimes we will have the doors open for hours at a time.

First, I just removed the dome-light bulb; but, this involves a screw-driver and a chance of messing up the bulb holder.

I thought about dis-abling the door triggers; but, I came up with a better solution.

I cut the HOT wire at the light and spliced a short lead-wire to each cut end.

I connected these leads to a SPST toggle-switch.

I bored a suitable hole in the cab roof, a couple of inches left of the dome-light, and installed the toggle.

Now, with a flip of the switch, I can kill the dome-light, and not worry about it running down the batteries.

This was sort of a quickie job; but, when time allows, plans are to design/add a circuit that will operate the dome-light, and other interior lights, independent of the headlight switch.

[dpuckett]

How long do you have the doors open to kill the batteries? I have had my dome light on all night, and it fired right up.

DP

[BEARKILLER]

I don't know just how long it would take to drain the batteries; but, with the whole insides gutted, and the doors standing open, day and night, for several days, I figure it would catch up with us, sooner or later.

Also, I am not a big fan of having the light come on, when the door opens.

[eyoung429]

I just put one in out of a '96...comes with a built-in switch and covers the area where the stock one was. That way I could turn the light off if the doors were open.