obender66
February 10th, 2004, 09:36 PM
I installed heavy duty harness which originally came with my Hella FF200. It is double insulated, German made relay, fuse for 20A and switch.Consider getting one or making it yourself if upgrading to HID, because current spikes during HID startup with time will fry factory relays.
I hooked up relay to low beam (+) and wired harness directly to battery(+) and chassis for (-) and soldered jacks which came with fogs to ballast wiring. So it's all plug in now and can be removed completely without cutting.All factory connectors are retained.
Now switch can turn low beams completely off-no matter what position steering column switch is at or whether parking brake is engaged or not. I mounted it under the hood because I drive with Xenon's on all the time, but for those who want to disable DRL-mount switch on dash and you can turn off low beam completely(and DRL as well). Fogs and parking lights will still work...
So here how it works, low beams assumed be converted to Xenon
1) Aux switch is ON-parking brake will trigger DRL ON(bad for ballasts!http://msg.toprotege.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif and steering column switch will turn Xenon on. Fogs, parking lights and high beam same as before.
2) Auxiliary switch oOFF-no DRL, no Xenon will come on.
Parking brake WILL NOT turn on DRL. Parking lights, high beams and fogs will work as before.Good to turn it off when giving car to service-no need to exlpain complex procedure of turning lights on without fucking up ballasts. Can be used during daytime-just drive with your fogs on as DRL.
Good harness costs about $25-30US and guys at LOCKDOWN should be able put one together.
Hope that helps few of your to jump onto xenon bandwagon http://msg.toprotege.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
I hooked up relay to low beam (+) and wired harness directly to battery(+) and chassis for (-) and soldered jacks which came with fogs to ballast wiring. So it's all plug in now and can be removed completely without cutting.All factory connectors are retained.
Now switch can turn low beams completely off-no matter what position steering column switch is at or whether parking brake is engaged or not. I mounted it under the hood because I drive with Xenon's on all the time, but for those who want to disable DRL-mount switch on dash and you can turn off low beam completely(and DRL as well). Fogs and parking lights will still work...
So here how it works, low beams assumed be converted to Xenon
1) Aux switch is ON-parking brake will trigger DRL ON(bad for ballasts!http://msg.toprotege.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif and steering column switch will turn Xenon on. Fogs, parking lights and high beam same as before.
2) Auxiliary switch oOFF-no DRL, no Xenon will come on.
Parking brake WILL NOT turn on DRL. Parking lights, high beams and fogs will work as before.Good to turn it off when giving car to service-no need to exlpain complex procedure of turning lights on without fucking up ballasts. Can be used during daytime-just drive with your fogs on as DRL.
Good harness costs about $25-30US and guys at LOCKDOWN should be able put one together.
Hope that helps few of your to jump onto xenon bandwagon http://msg.toprotege.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif