Auxbeam light and switch panel question

FishTaco · 2025-01-30T18:03:10+00:00

I wanted to take a moment and share my recent experience with Cali Raised LED. My family knew I was pretty excited about my new truck and gifted some small things for me at Xmas. I was gifted the bed stiffeners from Cali Raised. I was having the shop around the corner wire in my ditch lights, so I just had them do the molle panel bed kit and bed stiffeners too. When I pick up the truck the shop tells me the hardware for the stiffeners isn't even close. So I call Cali Raised. They pick up right away and it's an actual human being! Can you imagine?! I start to explain, he cuts me off and says I bet I know what happened... And knew before I finished. Looked up the info, saw my family bought it from one of the other vendors and says no problem, I'll ship you new hardware tomorrow. One of the best, easiest, most painless, reminiscent of old school customer service transactions I've had. No dodging blame, no pretending there wasn't an error, just accountability and action. A lot of these companies make comparable products, but because of how they treated me, whatever I can buy from them I will. I thought I'd share with y'all because it makes a difference to me what kind of a business I patronize, if does to others I'd want to know.

FishTaco

Active Wheeler

Jan 14, 2025

First: This is my first Tacoma and I know nothing about electrical.
I have a Trailhunter. It has several pre wired auxiliary switches, and from what I read they can handle the load of the Auxbeam ditch lights and light bar lights I got.
Is there any advantage to getting the Auxbeam switch panel?
It seems like I can keep a cleaner look using what I have.
Since I'm new to offroading and learning about overlanding as I go, I am unsure if I should save those for camping alternatives later?

My rig is a daily driver and I'll be using it for off road exploring and camping. I bought it after surviving Helene to build a competent daily driving bail out buggy. I share this so the experts out there understand my goals/needs.

Thanks for any help or insight, it's all new for me.