Hello, For my work I would like to be able to hit a switch on my Spod and have all lights, both internal and external, go out. Ideally it would also cut all the lights completely except for an IR set mounted on the front through the Spod. I honestly don't have a clue how to make this happen. Overseas we would spend hours pulling fuses and taping over light sources, but you guys are better at this than I am. Ideas? (I promise this is for legal work inside the US in my personal JK.)

Sounds like it would be an electrical mess trying to wire it all up. But maybe putting a switch and relays going into the fuse panel intercepting the signal? Probably very time consuming and a pain.

Would it not be easier to just through electrical tape over the shifter lighted and maybe a black cloth draped over the cluster and stereo and hvac controls .

 

I appreciate it, but I need to go from street legal to blacked out and back again. I could pull fuses and such but there has to be a way to make this easier.

 

There is not a simple way to do this. Many of the lights are controlled by computer, there is no simple way to turn those off. You can't just shut the computer down. If you open the circuit after the computer that will generate a warning light. Then you have the lights that are controlled by multiple sources like the dome light. You probably have a couple of dozen circuits controlling lights.

Simple enough to to build a relay box to handle this but you are going to need to trace down every circuit, basically stripe the Jeep down. For any circuit that can throw a warning light you are to need a load resistor to simulate the circuit is working. And with all the extra wiring it will increase the resistance of the circuits which may mean your lights will no longer be as bright.

Good luck

 

Well just turning the auto headlamp stalk on the left to off will get most of it out. Only things left after that is evic, tripometer/odometer lights and radio...

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Brake lights, reverse lights. Oh and don't open a door either.

 

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Are you talking interior dash lighting as well?

Basically you would have to wire all of your lighting circuits through separate relays so that you could interrupt their service via the relays with a switch in the cab. As mentioned above that would require quite a bit of effort and work on your part but it could *theoretically* be possible.

The thing with the interior lighting is I'm not sure you can turn off the warning lights in your cluster you will experience when the TIPM detects all of the open lighting circuits you've created. You could turn off the backlighting for the cluster, but I don't think the same power source controls the warning lights.

More than anything I'm very curious what exactly you're going to be doing. Personally it sounds like an enormous liability issue to try and purposely make safety systems (i.e. brake lights) inoperable.

 

More than anything I'm very curious what exactly you're going to be doing. Personally it sounds like an enormous liability issue to try and purposely make safety systems (i.e. brake lights) inoperable.

I doubt liability is an issue...
the only reasons I can think of for running blacked out/stealth involve either being out in the middle of nowhere, so no one to care about liability.
or you are around people, but they tend to be the kind of people who are not overly concerned about liability... and you have more than liability reasons to be concerned about them seeing you...

fwiw, I agree with the relays (and possible load resistors.) option, it is doable, and I am not convinced it would be all that bad... still a PITA, but not to the point of not doing it...

 

Hey guys,

Thanks for the advice. Since there was concern though let me clear it up. I'm a precision marksman on an area denial team. I'd like to be able to do some scouting from my Jeep but that would require being able to disable all the lights. I had thought there would be a way to simply wire a switch in to cut it all, but it sounds like I'm back to where I started. Thank you again for taking the time. If I turn off the headlights, dim the center console, and tape over the radio it seems my biggest issue is the rear lights. Maybe I just need the switch to handle them....