What about the mini light bar that attaches to the cargo light? You could put two to four strobes on it low profile and no holes to drill for wires?
http://www.pickupspecialties.com/Lig...ight_mount.htm

 

I got a PSE Amber mini bar rotator light that I stuck on the rear of my crew cab close to the cab light. I then just ran the wire in through the cab light, along the ceiling, into the wiring trough on the floor, and finally up into the front dash. It was then spliced to an orange Napa toggle switch. Works fairly well. Plus, I also have my Sirius antenna routed the same way, and it does not interfere at all when on.

The mount for the light is magnetic / suction cup. I like it.

 

Great minds think alike. That would be perfect, except that I pickup up my truck camper in August. Same goes with a back rack, It's going to be in the way (I think) of the overcab section.


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LOL on the airborn....I was just throwing it out there as a FYI I guess more or less....but you never know when you will come up to an accident and wanna turn the lights on just to help out or something and find yourself in a pickle....but like I say, just general info I guess.

As for the drive sober part, AMEN!!! I pray people would learn this ever so easy task...would make A LOT of our lives easier, safer and happier!

 

and to answer your original question...I have done this before also. You have to be very careful about doing it for the reasons mentioned on here. So long as you use a quality tube and mount it right...you won't hear a lot of the "ticking" from the strobe tube.

You can fire these 5 bulbs on a 60 watt power supply and you should be OK.

Is the mainly for day or night use? Its probably there and I missed it right! Late night and I'm tired....

Do you want to go all 5 heads or maybe just outside 2 on each side and leave center alone? I have done this too and it looked pretty darn good. On a 5 head I had em firing with both outer lights and center vs the 2 in-between...if that makes sense.

This wouldn't be a very expensive task to purchase...but the time and installation will kill ya!

Another option although a little more expensive is to use LED hideaways....but I would only recommend for this for night use only....the are some bright heads but without having the proper angles in the lights you won't get anything in daytime out of them...but at night they would be great. Another + to these is power consumption...you could have all 5 LEDs running all night with the truck turned OFF and it would't even touch the battery....the strobes you might get an hour or 2 maybe and you would want to refresh the battery.

OK...well I'll shut up now...I think you got some info to chew on and if you have any questions or need any help with any of it feel free to PM me.

As I said...its not that hard to do but is very time consuming. LMK if I can help.

 

The ticking would definitely drive me insane after a short while (But that's just a quick putt) Are there tubes small enough to fit inside the factory lenses or would I need to switch to something larger?



This depends.. On which airport I am on at the time. The grass strips are really only worried about daytime. There are no night ops, as there are no landing lights. However I am very frequently doing daybreak work, such as pulling a roller or wildlife removal.

Would prefer all 5, just for additional view.

I have not looked in the roof yet? Is it one wire going up that feeds each in line, or 5 wires one for each from the harness?

I am completely impressed by the power consumption (Or lack of) via LED lighting. We use it now on several of the aircraft, simply to save that precious power. I did recently stumble across these that seem to be a valid solution, but I would like to get a chance to see them in person before I decide. Didn't know if you had an opinion or not.


I can't thank you enough for the information.



Glenn

 

I could not agree more.

I am the first one to sit down and get sloppy drunk. But brother I'll tell ya. I NEVER get behind the wheel when I am drinking. 2 beers MAX or I aint motorin'.

Not to hijack my own thread with DWI flames, but wonder what it's going to take to get people to wake up. It's gotten far worse even in the past couple of years I have noticed.

But I digress.


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I'm planning on wiring my cab lights (which are LED's) the same way I've wired my Recon 3rd brake/cargo light.
Seen here (but it looks lame in the day light - it's WAAYY better / WAAYYY brighter at night. LOTS of people ask about it.)

 

What I've done is pretty simple. I cut the wires for the 3rd brake and cargo and ran them through the "normally closed" circuit of a standard Bosch relay. Then, I ran the "switched-closed" through an LED flasher.
So, the stock functions work properly when the rear strobes are OFF. When I toggle the rear strobes ON, the power (for the 3rd brake & cargo) gets re-routed (because of the relays) disabling the stock functions, and enabling the LED flasher to function.

I'm going to do the same thing to the cab lights, using two channels - just as I have with the Recon 3rd brake assy. The cabs will be broken up like so: 1-3-5 on a channel, and 2-4 on another. I'll probably run a similiar flash pattern as the rear. The reason I haven't already done this - is simply becuase I have to access the cab light harness, and it doesn't look like much fun.

 

Do you know how the cab lights are wired? I don't have any diagrams for this truck, so everything I am doing so far is complete guess work.

I assume that there are 5 wires running from the harness up the left pillar and stopping at each light? Is that what you know, or is it one wire with 5 spider taps?



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Here are a few links that could help you out some, maybe hehe. I also included a link for manuals that should have the wiring info you need. Just download it and look thru it.

https://www.fleet.ford.com/maintenan...ls/results.asp

F250 Factory Clearance Light install

 

If I didn't have so much already invested in my cab lights, I'd go with the Atomic's. They're exactly what I want mine to look like. Of course, I have blacked out (painted) lenses and have already installed Hi-Powered amber LED's.

 

So does anyone in New England have the Atomic lights installed with the flashers? I would LOVE to have a look at them in person to see if they are bright enough before I drop 2 bills on em.



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The tubes are small enough to fit inside the factory housings as is the LED hideaways...with CAREFUL placement!


Don't blame you here...for the slightest cost to do 5 tubes..not to mention it would look nice and even!!



Well...it's one wire that feeds the clearance lights....but you would have to have 5 cables for the strobe tubes....or I could custom make you a harness that would be 1 cable leading for the 5 strobe tubes....wouldn't be that bad but placement is the big issue on the tubes...



Never heard of or seen the atomics so I can't help you there....BUT...if they are a decent and bright light output, replace your factorys with those and tie in a LED flasher and man you would have a heck of a light show!!!


Not a problem..anytime!!

 

Yeah I think a custom wiring harness for the strobes would be in order. Just follow the factory wiring down. Then have a toggle switch that shuts off the cab lights and turns on the strobes.