1997 Pajero wiring of Relay for Spotlights

Thanks Peter this sounds the ticket. It is doing exactly what you have said. I will give it a go.

Yes I have mounted a switch on the dash board. NZ requirements also require this.

Thanks again.

Yep, Peter has got it.

Same as my 1996.

THere is full 12v to all of the headlights, low and high beam.
THe high beam light is turned on by earthing it through the mitsubishi relay, triggered by the light stalk on the steering column.

As Peter suggested, best way is to power the spot light relay, and earth it through the highbeam. I soldered a wire into the back of the light bulb socket.

High beam drops to about 9 to 10v when high beam on, enough voltage diference to earth the spot relay. Run the switching wire back through a switch on the dash so you can turn them off completely.

I have had a couple of times when flicking on and off high beam with spots on, that the spots stay on with low beam.
Turn everything off for a second or so (headlights and spots) and back on again to reset the system.

2nd thoughts after reading Peters post, take it to an autolec

Regards,
Spinifex

You will have to cut and paste the link bellow.

Cheers

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Sorry tugsy, I was trying to bring up the image here.

Anyway, the relay used is a New Era, but just substitute your relay for it.

If if you follow the connections from the existing headlight socket to the relay, you won’t need to work out if the headlights are positive or negative switched, the wiring allows for either.

Cheers

Like this Tim



Baz.

Thanks Baz, can never work out how to post images on this site.

Tugsy, on a standard three terminal headlight plug, the top terminal is for your low beam, so in your case, ignore this one.

One of the side terminals is your headlight common supply, either positive or negative.

The other side terminal is your for high beam, and will go negative or positive when you select high beam.

The trick with the diagram above is that you connect BOTH of your driving light relay’s coil terminals, pins 85 and 86, to your headlight loom.

This way, the headlight’s common supply will provide power your driving light relay and the headlight’s high beam wire will switch your driving light relay on and off in conjunction with your headlight’s high beam.

By wiring up your relay this way, you won’t even need a multi meter to work out which wire does what or whether your headlights are positive or negative switched.

Your driving light relay’s coil is protected by your existing headlight fuse.

To connect the rest of the relay and driving lights, connect your driving light relay’s terminal 30 to the positive terminal on your battery via a fuse and terminal 87 to one terminal of each driving light and the other terminal of each driving light goes to negative.

Cheers and thanks again Baz.

No prob mate, i've sent you a PERSONAL MESSAGE !!

As tugsy, simply move the wire coming from the relay’s terminal 86, from the low beam wire to the common wire on the existing headlight plug.

See the diagram above.

Cheers