Aux Switches Wiring Guide | Jeep Wrangler JL/Gladiator JT
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 มิ.ย. 2019
- Here, KC HiLiTES shows you step by step how to install and wire lights or other accessories into your Jeep Wrangler JL or Gladiator JT Aux Switches. These are an add-on package from Jeep that come with the "Trailer Tow and HD Electrical Group" package, which includes a 240 amp alternator and Auxiliary Switches
These four auxiliary switches located in the cab on lower switch bank of the instrument panel (below the radio/AC controls on the bottom right near the shifter) can be used to power various electrical devices. You can configure the functionality of the auxiliary switches via the Uconnect touch screen display in the settings menu. All switches can be configured for the switch type operation to be latching (stays on when you press it and let go) or momentary (only stays on while you're physically pressing and holding the button). They can also be configured for their power source to be either via the battery or ignition, and the ability to hold last state across key cycles.
The Jeep JL/JT Auxiliary Switches control relays powering four unterminated wires located in two places: 1) in the interior passenger outboard foot well area and 2) on the right side of the engine compartment near the battery. We used the wires under the hood for wiring lighting to the Jeep aux switches.
Our manual states that there are two 15 amp and two 40 amp circuits.
Aux Switch 1 (40 amp) - Tan and Red wire
Aux Switch 2 (40 amp) - Green and Red wire
Aux Switch 3 (15 amp) - Orange wire
Aux Switch 4 (15 amp) - Blue wire
**** The connectors we used are in the link below. However, we were told that Jeep also included heat shrink tubing and terminals for these, but we couldn't find them in our brand-new Jeep.
**** Male Quick-Connect: www.waytekwire.com/item/30710...
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Awesome video. Exactly what I’m looking for which is connecting wiring harness to factory JL Aux switches. Love it!! Simple and straightforward.
Good stuff. I REALLY appreciate that Jeep added these switches as an option. They've made it ridiculously easy to wire up the goodies now.
This video is top notch!!! I just got my LZR led and I cannot wait to get them installed
Thanks for the video. Looks simple enough. I’m going to install a set of Daylighters this afternoon.
Additional electrical tips... You should use the grounding point provided on the inner fender not the battery. That's why it's there. Keeps the battery terminal unclutered. You should use a female connector on the power source wire not a male spade. If the connection comes loose, the shrouded female connector will protect the circuit from grounding out.
I wonder if I could put two negative wire on one grounding point.
Great video. So helpful and very descriptive. really appreciate it.
Great video 👍
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I have used KC lights on my wranglers. It great that KC still produces halogen lights because the LED's do not work for me in adverse weather.
Keep making a awesome product !
Great install. I kinda wish I had those switches on my JLUR. I like how you double heat shrink with the layers.
@@kchilites Haha, I agree. They should all have them standard. I added the Trigger Switch System for the JL. I like how the switches are overhead above the rear view mirror, but having those factory switches would have still been nice to have.
Great video and products. FYI to everyone, AUX 1 & 2 are fused to a 40 amp relay, not 30 amp
what is the 3 and 4 amp? for a refrigerator, what amp would you suggest to use?
@@Haro75410 AUX 3 & 4 are 15 Amp circuits. I would check the Amp draw of the refrigerator. If over 15 amps it will need to be in AUX 1 or 2
@@SoCalJeepGladiator Thank you.
This video is a great place to start, here’s what I’m adding after my experience with my 2019 JL:
I purchased the JL ready Flex duals and mount for the pillar mounts and the Flex 10” Light bar for the bumper. The factory harnesses as I got them have tons of extra and unnecessary wiring. Route the wiring for the lights to the battery area, leaving some slack for working material. Since you only need the red and black wires, I was able to trim the harness right after where the two factory harnesses for the pillar lights are crimped together. I attached a ground to the black wire and connected to the body ground and the red to the #4 lead using male/female connectors as shown in video.
The light bar was a bit different. The 15 amp #3 lead wouldn’t light up the bar, so I had to use the #2 lead, leaving my lights on the bottom two switches (2 & 4). The process was the same, route wires, then I trimmed the harness at the relay from the factory, added the ground to the black and male connector to the red, and I was in business. The factory harnesses come with several feet of extra wiring for the inside switch and for routing that isn’t necessarily needed for the JL and it really cleaned up the under hood and battery area.
Gary Peterson were you able to cut off the switch and fuse from the wiring harness or did you have zip tie it under the hood?
Thank you for the video
Great video.. I know you asked for recommendations for tire / size. I am running BF KTM3 37x12.5 R17 on a JL with the Mopar 2.5 lift. Great traction and quiet on the highway, looking forward to more videos.
WOW that couldn't be any easier
early 2018 JL’s do *not* have those wires under the hood near the batt box. The only wires for the AUX switches are supposedly located under the front passenger plastic side kickplate, together with the connector kit supplied with the AUX Switch option.
This was a great video. This past weekend I mount and wired up my new KCs. Everything went as shown here. One question, where did you tuck the excess wire harness?
A useful addition would be to (1) show background light connection and (2) show where you tuck the remainder of that large harness with unused relay and switch. Otherwise helpful. Thanks!
Sick video, been looking for those light bracket, any idea where I can get them? Its hidden and looks great, thanks!
So I have the 6 piece cyclone kit for my Jeep JL. I will be installing it to my factory aux switch and the fuse will be installed next to the battery. Do I cut the excessive red, yellow (I assume it's not going to be used), and negative wire? Do I connect the negative wire from the battery to the ground junction?
I have a Rubicon JLU with the aux switches. I will wire my Slim
Lites this way, but is there any way to make them operate automatically with the high beams while wired to the aux switches?
Do you have a video on how to hook up two of the KC HiLiTES 6-Inch Apollo Pro Halogen Lights; Spot Beams to the AUX switches in a 2023 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon by chance? I am going to be mounting them on the front bumper. Thanks in advance!!
The wires actually have access points in the pass footwell also
Can i use one of these as a winch cut off switch?
For signal wire of relay?
I have the flex era 4 combo but I only got the green wire and white not the red you connected which one would I use to connect it to the orange wire ?
If I was to install two pairs of your slimlite led spot lights would I need to use two aux switches or could I use one?
do you have the brackets for attaching those lights to the JL? Can't find them on the site. Also, what lights are those?
I backed 70mai Omni Dash Cam on Kickstarter and wanted to connect it to one of my aux switches. It has an always on feature (parking/sentry mode) so it has the ACC, the VCC and Ground wires. Do I connect the aux wire to both the ACC and VCC wires and then adjust the settings in the menu?
Does it come standard if you get the Rubicon for both the wangler and the Gladiator ?
Can i hook up the KC rock lights the same way? Would like to run my own wires and tie them all together and hook up to the Aux switche
I have a 2022 JL Rubicon with the AUX switches. I just purchased a set of Flex Era 4 ditch lights. Should I wire them to the 40A or 15A factory AUX leads. Seems to me the 40A is best. Also, in the matter of the amber backlight circuit, Do I HAVE TO wire the backlights (if not, great); or can I just wire them all to the 40A factory AUX and leave the wiring harness fuses in line? I just don't want to use up two of my four factory AUX switches for these lights. I realize that the Mopar AUX switches are not 3-position switches. I am willing to give up the amber backlight option if it will free up one of my AUX switches.
Do the Aux switches work with 3 position lights like the Flex ERA 3?
OK so you used 2 different heat shrinks. Could you tell everyone what sizes they were please. Thankd
Where can I find the lights and mounts
shown in this video?
So is the rest of the wiring harness and harness relay trimmed off or just wrapped and tucked?
What if your lights have the yellow wire with the fuse. It looks like that connects to the positive. Do you still do this if connecting to the aux switch in the Gladiator?
Please put links to the brackets and lights
When are yall going to announce the winner for the led day lighter give away
I love your stuff but I think you guys should switch the hot wire to a female bit instead of the male spade. FOR SAFETY reasons if that wire or connection were to ever come loose you now have exposed live wire that can short on the body or worst start an electrical fire. The female end is mostly shrouded and would need a pokey bit to short circuit..... let me know if I wrong....
Tx. One thing. Male and female should be the other way round. If you disconnect you have an unprotected + within the reach of a lot of mass connections. So put the female plug on the wire leading towards the battery + . Might save you from some trouble one day.
Was that the auxiliary battery negative you connected your wires to
Is there a link on what lights these are?
Dumb question, is the red wire on the wiring harness the ground, load, or supply? My wiring harness has black, green, and white, no red.
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Great video. I have the aux switches but didnt realize how simple. Thanks for showing us. Also what lights did yall use?
@@kchilites oooh. That's cool. Yeah they didn't look familiar that's why I asked lol.
@@kchilites I was wondering if you let me know about this process for the wiring colors on the Apollo Pro Series. I have the 2019 with the Aux setup and need to know which colors to hook up since there is only yellow, green, and white
@@mirandareneev Same issue and I cannot find a work around to this wire harness
My wires are white, black and green - use green?
And what if your lights come with cables that include a relay and a switch? (Clearly you won't need the switch they provide)
What if your KC wiring harness came with wiring for an included switch?
That’s what I’m stuck with
Just got the wiring harness and there is no red wire. Do I plug the green wire or the white wire into the aux switch? And do I do anything with the yellow power lead?
What did you end up doing? I have the same question
I hope someone will answer this newbie question... So you have two lights regardless whether on the pillar or bumper. Do you solder the two red wires together, (one from each light), then put the spade on that soldered wire then connect that to the factory auxiliary switch wire?
What did you end up doing?
@@ciprianorivera8063 selling the Jeep lol, seriously. To tell you the truth I don't remember. But ti did get everything hooked up with no mess or trouble.
How about an overview of the auxiliary wiring from the switches that are inside the cab, not just the wires under the hood?
I have 6" Apollo Pro Series (My car JL2019 Rubicon with AUX switch )
The wiring to the switch is white,Green & Black wire do i need to connect them all or only the green?
from the relay fuse there is black & yellow wire (black to ground- Yellow to Battry 12+) do i need to blage the fuse ?
Hey I have the same style lights were you able to figure this out?!?!
I’ve been wondering the same. Any luck ?
@@juancampos9212 any luck? Been wondering the same
I heard mention in another video that with this factory option, there are actually 2 additional circuits that are direct with the ignition switch. So a total of 6, 4 switched and 2 direct, is this true?
KC HiLiTES to be clear, this was on the JL. I’d imagine it would be the same on the JT.
bigdawgfan72 The JL has a ignition and direct battery wire plus the 4 switches inside the jeep by the passenger kick panel. Here is a link from the JL Forums showing it. Not sure if the JT has the same.
www.jlwranglerforums.com/forum/threads/aux-switches-cable-color-code-wiring-identification.13026/
True! Those leads are on the in cab bundle. Only the 4 shown in the video under the hood
Great video and the switches do make it easy for sure. I do have them in my Rubicon. I just purchased some 100W KC Daylighters. I have not received them yet but I am looking at the instructions online. It shows a black (ground), yellow (12V+) and green (load) wire from the relay. Then it shows a brown (ground) and white (12V+) wire going to the switch as well as the green (load) from the relay. Is the green wire for my lights the same as the red wire in this demonstration? Thanks in advance for your help.
I just bought KC lights. Sounds like the same wiring harness I have. I cannot figure how to get this to work with the relay in the system.
@@jkstormtrooper9617 I was able to get it to work on mine.
The yellow wire with the fuse goes directly to the battery. The green wire goes to one of the switch wires on the Jeep. I used Aux 3 since it is the higher amperage connection. Hope this helps.
@@htweelz Spot on. I was trying to connect to Aux 4. Discover it is 'dead', in the mean time I drove myself crazy. When I moved to Aux 3 it worked. Yellow to battery, black to ground, Green to the Aux wire. Suddenly easy :-) I will look for Aux 4 fuse tomorrow. Thanks for the help!
@@jkstormtrooper9617 You're welcome! Glad you got it done! Let me know what you find out about Aux 4.
@@htweelz Fuse. Took me a while to figure out which one.
the first two switches are 40amp not 30
Cut the harness. Who needs six feet of wiring balled up near the battery?
I try not to nitpick, but... your connectors are in reverse. Female is the protected side with the dust cap covering it. Males should go on load side. If the male is on the line side you will have to provide more protection if you ever run it disconnected and hit the switch.
I think it breeds bad habits to ground directly to the battery. Why not use a body ground??
40 amp, not 30 on 1 and 2