Would it be possible to connect the raxiom footwell kit to the existing ambient lighting button on the car? So that instead of it changing the colors of the stock lighting in the car, it would toggle on and off the raxiom lights instead.

 

I erased my first jab at this post to do this summary:

Yeah, don't. Do something else. You're welcome. Hope that helps!

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The longer version of this... The reason I say don't is first, unless you're gonna abandon (and therefore remove completely, I'd say) the OEM ambient lighting, you're gonna wind up with a switch that cycles through the OEM ambient lighting 7 colors and then off, all while your Raxiom one just goes on/off, and you get the same Red/On combo every time, but Green/On isn't possible. Unless you disconnect, set to Red, then do the cycling, but you get the idea.

Second, the button is a momentary on. It doesn't stay on. This means that to make an on/off switch out of it, you have to do some semi-complicated wiring to use the button as a trigger, then keep the power on. Or use a board that's already made like that.

Third, if you didn't 'cut out' the OEM system, then you'd have to do more wiring goofiness... all for lights. Yeah, it'd be neat, but you're beginning to engineer a really overly complicated system to do the job. It'd be easier, if you just want an on/off switch, to install one elsewhere and use that. The glove box is a good place. The console box is too. You'd just have a toggle switch, maybe a push button kind single pole, single throw (SPST) on/off switch, no momentary. Simple and effective, much easier to wire up, no shenanigans.

In your other thread, you wanted simple. Using that button is gonna be less simple than the grabbing of the parking light I spoke of over there.

By the way, for any of this... you still want a relay, and you still want to get power from the battery positive post near directly, and you still want that power lead fused. near the battery. Yes, you could possibly piggy back a current circuit at the BEC, or even the SJC, or... *shudder*... directly off a circuit in the wiring... but don't. Just... please don't. You can make your own mini BEC near the battery and do all kinds of things that won't mess with the car's base electrics, something I sincerely advocate one doesn't do unless absolutely necessary... like swapping out the blower motor. Couldn't be avoided, that. It hurt me to cut the wiring...

Ok, I got that off my chest.

For what all that's worth. You do you and all that. The words you want are 'latched relay' and 'flip flop circuit' if you really must use that button. Go go google powers. Good luck!

/Wiring anything right, and then adding complexity, is never, ever simple. Listen to Scotty on this one: