Ok, so I want to put some lighting inside my bed/cap, to replace the old Leer battery powered piece of crap. The bed layout is standard pickup/Xcab with Leer top. Have been looking around for lights, and looked at forum postings, but not too thrilled. Would favor a 12V LED deal with the switch on it, but love some suggestions/pics/links/etc. Thanks!

 

A buddy of mine put in a pair of those battery powered touch lights in his pickup shell. For a hard wired setup, grab a couple of 12V/1 watt Luxeon LEDs and hook them to the battery with a switch. I have this setup in my VW pickup shell. I have a lighter outlet at the front of the bed (I added that) and run the wires up to the lights. Another option is to attach a 12V trouble light to the top of the shell. Can light the bed or be removed for working on the truck:


http://www.4crawler.com/4x4/CheapTri...werPoint.shtml

Or pick up a 12V florescent light and attach that to the sides of the shell. That is what I used to run in my pickup shell:

 

See how I did mine here.
Only problem is that it takes a minute to warm up when it's really cold out.

 

I am going to try one of these (see below). Only one I could find which was directly mountable, had switch, etc. Would have preferred LED and perhaps red, but we'll see. PIcs to follow.

http://www.rolltopcover.com/accessories-cargolamp.htm

By the way, do like the other options shown above

 

I installed a Hella interior light. Works great and emits a nice white light.

I just put a switch inside the bedtop.

 

roundeyes.com sells some really neat LED lights, they are supposed to light a 6x6ft area. 30 bucks a pop though, they are not cheap!

 

Well, RATS!
I wish I had gotten one of the ones you guys just mentioned.
Just got in this one, pictures to follow:

 

OK, finally done

1) Built base for light as below





2) Then installed:





3) Ran wires into body:



4) Wiring hook-up done in space behind tail lights, and then all linked through Painless Wiring fuse block (Used a constant-on line):



Works great, by the way!