It's also not clear if the connections on the roof are enabled if you don't have tesla install the offroad light bar. Even if you hook up to those wires, the button on the touchscreen may not exist without them pushing different software to your truck
And where precisely are you going to find the 48 volt lights? Better not mess with Mother Nature.
How about 4 sets of 12v lights in series?
Do you know that Teslas do not have fuses? The circuits are monitored for amperage and are turned off if the current draw is over what is programmed. What circuit are you going to choose for your string of 12 volt bulbs?
Do you know that 4 sets of 12v in series is 48v?
So these converters are roughly 7” x 5” x 3” in the 48v version. Where are people planning on mounting them for a clean install? In the frunk and then a teardown to run wire everywhere for exterior lights? Where would the wires come out for that without awkward exterior wire runs, or can they be easily hid behind the edges of the panels? For exterior lights and interior / exterior options like a radar detector with exterior sensors, or a subwoofer amp inside, how many of these would you need? Trying to picture how this install would work without some rather inconvenient wire runs. Maybe I’m getting this wrong? But if you want to mount some lights in the front and back and a radar detector and interior / stereo parts you either would have to have a bank of them in the frunk and a lot of wiring elsewhere or mount several of them in somehow hidden places (where?) to do shorter wire runs to the 12v components around the vehicle. Either way, this may be challenging to keep clean but I haven’t been inside the truck to look around for what the options for installers might really be.
The ones on the roof do work.
Just wondering if you are hypothesizing this or have actually done it?
