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Old Oct 10, 2009 | 12:51 AM
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Lights inside the bed

I was wondering if anybody has put a lightbar inside their truck bed? I have a Tonneau cover on and 99% of the time it is closed. Well tonight I pulled our two combine heads home from the field as it started to snow and when I went to get the hitch pins out of the box I realized it sure would be nice to have a light inside the box probably mounted to the front of the bed that you could turn on to have some light in there. Anyone ever install something similar or have any reccommendations?
 
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Old Oct 10, 2009 | 02:40 AM
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There have been some photos of such lights on the forum IIRC.
I'm in the process of installing www.Diamondbackcovers.com But as I might remove the rear section occassionally I can't put a light bar there so I've got some 6 LED pods I'll put on the side under the rail.Does anyone have a better solution for this ?
 
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Old Oct 10, 2009 | 03:50 PM
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Originally Posted by mete
There have been some photos of such lights on the forum IIRC.
I'm in the process of installing www.Diamondbackcovers.com But as I might remove the rear section occassionally I can't put a light bar there so I've got some 6 LED pods I'll put on the side under the rail.Does anyone have a better solution for this ?
you could get some white led tubes from streetglow mount them up under the sides of the bed pointing down then wire them up to a switch towards the back of the bed for them.
 
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Old Oct 10, 2009 | 07:47 PM
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Forgot to mention - I have cargo management system.
 
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Old Oct 10, 2009 | 09:02 PM
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On my old truck I mounted two of these to the underside of my hard tonneau cover. Put out pretty good light for a cheap price.

http://www.asseenontv.com/prod-pages...lick.html?gid=
 
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Old Oct 10, 2009 | 09:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Wes28376
On my old truck I mounted two of these to the underside of my hard tonneau cover. Put out pretty good light for a cheap price.

http://www.asseenontv.com/prod-pages...lick.html?gid=
Actually, that's not a bad idea at all. Take it a step farther...maybe he could hook them up to The Clapper!

 
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Old Oct 10, 2009 | 09:16 PM
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Actually, that's not a bad idea at all. Take it a step farther...maybe he could hook them up to The Clapper!


Now you're talking.
 
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Old Oct 11, 2009 | 09:44 PM
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I looked around a little more again and came across some Recon universal bed lights.

http://www.gorecon.com/product.php?p...ht+Kit&p_cat=8

I also found Truck covers american cargo lights which look like a nice kit. I think I am going to be going this route with just a switch back there to flip.

http://www.autoanything.com/lights/65A4572A0A0.aspx
 

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