LED Courtesy Light Upgrade

[NickMcD63]

Hey everyone!
Hoping I could get your help on what I feel should be an easy project but my electrical knoledge is very limited so hoping for some assitance. I just recently purchased an AR250 and with the lack of interior courtesy lighting I am hoping to add some blue LED puck lights. From other threads I have read that I can tap into the current courtesy lights and not blow the fuse with 6 lights (close to 5 amps?) - does that sound right? If so, do i just run all the lights to one of the coutesy lights and connect all 7 positive and negative together? That simple?

Any other suggestions would be helpful. Thank you!

 

[Bubba7827]

I did some of this recently. The elec connections are blade type and they (west marine I think) sell these double blade adapters so you can connect two wires to each switch. Still had to crimp some terminal ends on wires but it wasn't difficult.

 

[NickMcD63]

What switch exactly are you referring to?

 

[Bubba7827]

The courtesy light switch into which you intend to tap. The piggy back adapter beats cutting wires in my book.

 

[NickMcD63]

Got it. However I don’t have a switch at least that I’m aware of. It’s all through the digital screen

 

[Bubba7827]

I don't have a screen. My bad.