Driving light wireing
Submitted: Sunday, Jun 29, 2014 at 17:09
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Hi, Anybody wired up
driving lights on a Mitsubishi Verada, if so where did you take the trigger wire off the high beam circuit, I have a red and a yellow/red on the high beam bulb and they both have power on them on low beam but the bulb doesn't light up, when you switch to high beam the red wire has power and the yellow/red doesn't and high beam works, please note this is all with the
test light earthed to negative. Beats me, have never had this trouble with a set of
driving lights before and I have wired up more sets than I care to remember. Thanks in advance.
Reply By: Ross M - Sunday, Jun 29, 2014 at 17:35
Sunday, Jun 29, 2014 at 17:35
Rosss
Common Japanese practice is to use earthing headlights. It seems that is what you have.
Most people on forums talk of a trigger wire. I like to regard it as a feed wire for relay coil purposes.
If you connect the relay coil wires across to the two wires which run the headlight filament, then the relay coil will come on when the neg to switch side of the headlight filament is connected to neg by the stalk switch. Have a switch somewhere in that line so you can kill the relay but retain the headlights high beam operation.
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Reply By: olcoolone - Sunday, Jun 29, 2014 at 17:38
Sunday, Jun 29, 2014 at 17:38
I would say what you think is power on the yellow/red wire when on low beam is nothing and the indication your getting on your
test light is the positive through the globe making it look like that wire is positive when really it's a switched negative wire.
If you have wired up more sets of
driving lights then you care to remember you would know a relay needs a negative and positive signal to work..... If the relay sees two positive signals the relay will not switch until it sees a positive and a negative.
Don't forget the make sure pin 30 and 87 are used the right way and make sure you do the same for pin 85 and 86 (one is positive and the other negative)..... If not you will blow the high bean/ headlight fuse.
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