- Hey guys, it's Shawn again at Custom Offsets.
Custom Offsets TV on the Youtube.
We have people asking about lighting
and other stuff that we sell on the website,
so rather than come up with a crazy name for this series,
we're just gonna call this Custom Offsets Cool Truck Shit.
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- So this one is one we keep getting asked about,
it's another one that I wanted to learn about, in detail.
And it's our black label lighting eight pod rock light kit.
So you've probably seen a lot of the guys running around
with rock lights, it basically took the place,
it's an LED system that took the place of the old underglow
from back in the day.
They used to have the neon tubes
and then they came out with something else,
can't remember what.
But now, it's more of these rock lights
and the reason is it's a completely sealed, waterproof kit
that you can install in there and they're pretty durable
and they stand up really well.
So, what you get with this kit, this is the whole kit here,
this is how it will come to you,
are each of these boxes, containing,
it's gonna have a light and then 11 feet of cord, RGB,
and when I say RGB, it's red, green, blue,
and then also the black.
So inside of this, if you see the four pins there
inside of this are three wires, our red, green, blue,
and then there's a black wire for your ground.
The RGB is a red light that it's gonna produce
and a green light it's gonna produce, and a blue light,
and you'll see that there's three diodes,
red, green, and blue in that.
What happens is, it can use those
and mix those colors together.
Remember Smarter than a Fifth Grader?
If you mix red and green, junior, what do you get?
No, that's a terrible example cause it makes blue.
But if you mix red and yellow,
you start to get pinks and stuff,
if you mix red and blue, you get purples,
so if you can see where I'm going with this,
it uses those colors, which Junior and I are not
smarter than a fifth grader so we don't know
how it actually works, but let me just tell you,
you can make any color, I believe including white now.
You didn't used to be able to make a pure white
because all these colors left a little tinge in it
but now these new kits you can actually get to white.
And then, it's a million color scale.
So you can just use the app and find the different colors.
So, let's talk about the app real quick.
When you get the kit, it's gonna come with the instructions
and the QR code you can scan,
or you can just look up the BLE DIM app,
and there's Android or Apple Ios
and you can download that app
and that's where you're gonna control your truck lights.
So, it's completely Bluetooth,
the Bluetooth is already built in
and you'll see that it's got the same QR codes here
to get everything set up.
So this is the controller that comes with it.
So if you think about this controller input/output,
your input, your red is obviously your power,
your black is your ground.
If you didn't know that, put everything back in the box
and go find somebody to install this.
The best people to install this would be
if you've got a complete after-market truck
company nearby, they'd be good ones to install it.
Otherwise, a stereo installer would be a really good one
to go to for something like this,
aftermarket stereo guys would be good at this.
Power, ground, controller, and then it's coming off
because it's the eight pod.
So if you had the four pod,
you wouldn't have this pigtail unit.
You'd have this one only, but you can see
that they've each got four connectors
and each of those is gonna go to one of the pods,
one of the rock plates.
So, that's the eight piece kit, the controller,
and the rest of these are gonna be your other seven pods.
So what's inside of one of these boxes again,
is the pod and the 11 feet and then
it's coming with two mounting pads.
One of them is going to have a cup to it
and if you can picture what that's for,
is that will be how you install it to like a roof-rack
or something like that, something curved,
curved for her pleasure is I believe what you had told me.
And you can see that it would then install
and you don't have to drill through anything,
it's made so that it can basically
come out the side of this grommet, screw it in, done deal.
The other option is, you can do it with this one, too,
but this isn't the most common,
so I'm gonna show you this one, so this is the flat mount.
See the waffle side, that's the backside so you come
through the front side and you feed
that 11 foot of cord through there.
And again, if you struggle with this,
put everything back in the box
and go have somebody install this.
Don't worry, they won't say too much on the gram
if you buy it instead of build it,
I buy stuff all the time.
So, you can see now, I fed it through there,
and now this thing is ready to rock and roll,
I'm gonna mount right through here with my self-tappers.
This guy then goes through the hole that you're gonna drill
on the truck, and we'll go through and show you
some of the mounting options on the truck.
You'd feed that through and then it's gonna come around
and connect and it's just a push-pin, and so you
just line up, it's got a groove here,
and it's got a male side there, you line em up.
Arrow, arrow, you push real tight so that you make
damned sure it's water-tight, and that's a done deal.
This one's ready to rock and roll.
If this had power, you'd be able to burn through your app
and get that thing rockin.
So let's talk about what's not included,
cause that's everything that is included.
What's not included is an Iphone7,
you won't be getting the new Iphone7 with this,
you're gonna have to buy your own phone
to hook up to the Bluetooth.
Also, you'll see where we mounted this on this truck,
because it's 11 feet, you need to center mount
the control box and then run wires both ways.
What that means is this obviously isn't gonna get to power.
So what you wanna go out and buy is a spool
or a handful, you can measure out how much you need
if you're kind of on the cheap side,
or just get a spool, cause you'll be using this to wire
your other cool lighting so you can light everything up.
So you're gonna end up using a butt connector
or soddering that and then, ya know, cleaning it up
waterproof it out and then run that up to your fuse box.
And with this, a lot of times you can buy the fuse link,
you also wanna buy a fuse harness and throw that in there
so that you don't blow this thing up.
What amp, Brad, to use? 30?
What amp fuse did you use to blade?
- [Brad] 30
- Yeah, so probably a 30 amp would be sufficient.
The other thing that we always have on hand to do this
are these cushman clips and these are good because
and then these little short self-tappers with the fat heads,
these are good to basically, underneath you'll see
when we go underneath there, to mount the wiring
up underneath the bottom of the truck
so it's not all sagging and hanging.
These guys, if you wanna get a look at that,
they're the pan head self-drilling six by one.
These little guys are ideal size to go through the light,
through the mount, and then into the truck.
Ideally not through any important areas
like fuel tanks and stuff, don't do that.
And then of course, your trusty zip ties,
because you can't mod out a truck without zip ties.
Some of the best mods are built with zip ties.
Good, junior?
Let's go check out the truck.
So the easiest place to start is right here,
where we mounted the controller itself.
And you can see, it's up here.
Junior do you have enough light or do we need to cut
and bring some light in?
Cause people have been yelling at you
cause you're not giving em enough light.
- [Junior] We got enough light.
- You promise?
- [Junior] Yup.
- Okay, So, here is the controller, you can see
we used some of those longer self-tappers
and went right into the box, some whatever thing right here.
And then you can see, here's the two leads coming off.
And all this extra wire, there's really no way to do this
without cutting everything
and then having to sodder everything,
I would highly not recommend doing that.
This is all waterproof, so just bundle it up
as nice as you can, use some zip ties
and make sure it's not gonna fall down.
We use a lot of zip ties and then connect it
to this main harness that's coming through here.
And then you can see that this is that power
and ground lead and if you look on the other side, here,
we came right here and we used an eyelet,
and we grounded out, so you wanna grind the paint off
and ground that out, and that's your negative.
And then our power, we did a heat shrink
and solder here, and then the power's running up
and I'll show you that in a minute, to the fuse box.
And then up here you can see some of the leads,
so there's a couple of rock lights headed that way.
You can see we use these whenever you're trying
to stay off of like a dried shaft or something,
so that it can't possibly fall
and then fall into your drive shaft
and then rip all your rock lights off and other bad stuff.
And you can see the rock lights that are mounted
over on the other side.
What you can look at here, Junior,
I'll cover this one up so it's not blinding us,
Brad actually went in and mounted these
at about a 45, and rather than put them here
and shoot straight out,
cause what happens with rock lights is their focus
being so that if you put them right here,
they're just gonna shoot a circle out of the ground
like them mirror things, door thing, logo things.
Well, you don't want that,
the goal here is to make stuff glow,
so what we do is we shoot em at a 45
inside of the body, here, right back towards the frame
underneath the truck and then it really lights shit up.
I'm tellin ya.
Come on out here, Junior.
So, up underneath here,
so I notice on the side ones,
we didn't drill a hole through the center,
we just used where the cord comes out
of the side of the bushing, but under here,
you can drill a hole right through this plastic liner,
and then fish the wire through, so that then
you don't have a wire showing at all.
And you'll see that it's actually fished inside
and then routed, and then back down.
Same thing back here, similar concept.
On the backside, you have to look way up inside of here,
So on the backside, the wheel well ends
and then there's a gap here for the side of the box.
By drilling a hole up there and then fishing this way,
the wire pops out right here.
I'll switch spots with you, Junior.
So you can see the wire popped out right here.
Now you have a nice, clean, no wire in your wheel well run,
and then it can run down and connect.
Up front, I think this is it, too.
So up front you can see where we went into the fuse box
and here's that fuse that I told you about with the 30 amp.
And then hits just into the fuse box.
Are you just in an accessory, Brad?
So, it's just always on.
And then do we still do an override switch
or do you just use Bluetooth?
Okay, another option that you could do
is do an override switch either right here, underneath,
or you can run it into the cab and then do an override.
Obviously, that's gonna be a lot more work.
The reason an override is smart,
let's say that you have everything on in red and blue
because you wanna show off at the Wal-Mart meet
and look like the police, which is illegal by the way,
but if you're not moving, I believe it's okay.
Well, let's say your phone dies.
You now cannot shut off the old red and blues
and you've gotta drive back to Grandma's house
with the red and blues going.
So your only option would be to pop that fuse.
So, I guess you did install a switch.
He got a blade fuse switch.
So, nevermind, you don't need a switch.
Brad's smarter than I am
and that's why he gets paid the big bucks
and you just pull that fuse and off you go.
Junior, do you know everything you wanna know
about rock lights?
- [Junior] Yeah, buddy.
- Do you have your phone with the app on it?
- [Junior] Yup.
- Do you wanna show us that, quick?
Is that easy enough to do?
You already got it up?
Wow, you're good.
So, he's not connected to this truck,
but you can see you can preset your colors,
and then you can start to set some different patterns
and different strobes.
You'll figure all this out while your sitting at home
on Sunday night just practicing and using this thing.
But just wanted to show you how simple it is,
and it's one of those things where you play with it
for 15 minutes and you pretty much get the whole concept.
So that is rock light install.
I think that people have asked about light bar install
so the next time that we're doing one,
this just happened to be the one we were doing today.
Next time we're doing one,
we'll throw that out here for you guys.
I'm gonna grab the lights and let you
see this thing in the dark.
Junior, you stay there.
See, you can see that with that eight pod kit,
it's getting a pretty good casted light.
And it's pretty slick.
- [Junior] Are you done in there?
- Yeah.
Good, Junior?
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