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Old Jan 1, 2010 | 04:37 AM
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Installing hellas

i have all the wiring already done, but nothing hocked up yey...well im confused, it shows in the picture (in the instructions) i need to hook up my headlights with the headlights. why?...im using the switch by the way...i want to beable to turn on my hellas with or without my head lights on...i dont want to have turn my headlights on just to turn my hellas on.

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Old Jan 1, 2010 | 11:28 AM
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Just wire the lights totally seperate from the headlights with there own switch, there is no need to wire them with the headlights.
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Old Jan 1, 2010 | 11:49 AM
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Instead of wiring the light to the headlight just find another hot wire or fuse to go into. or just run it to the battery.
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Old Jan 1, 2010 | 12:26 PM
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just use your parking lights as the source of power instead of the headlights and you can turn your Hella's on and off, without turning on the the headlights first using the switch that came with it. any other accessory source also works besides the parking lights. the idea is when you turn off the engine/ remove the keys from the ignition, the power to your Hella's are disabled completely even if you forget to switch them off. don't use direct battery feed.
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Old Jan 1, 2010 | 04:43 PM
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i wired the to my parking lights.
and well everything is plugged up and grounded, and well they dont work.
with the switch when toggle it back and fourth itll light up green and shut of immediately.

is somthing just no getting direct connect or what?
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Old Jan 1, 2010 | 05:11 PM
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Aren't tail lights negitivly switched? The rest of the headlight/tail light assembly is.

I am assuming you are running another relay for the lights (you should be). I would place this relay near the battery and connect 12V to pin 85 & 30 from the battery (if it is less then 15cm you dont really need to fuse it.). Connect your light outputs to pin 87 and run 86 through your switch to ground. Your lights will stay on even with your keys out, but if you miss 2 big hellas being on when you walk away you shouldn't be driving anyway.
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Old Jan 1, 2010 | 05:41 PM
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look at this wiring diagram, this should help figuring out the problem.
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Old Jan 1, 2010 | 06:17 PM
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Originally Posted by nick1990
i wired the to my parking lights.
and well everything is plugged up and grounded, and well they dont work.
with the switch when toggle it back and fourth itll light up green and shut of immediately.

is somthing just no getting direct connect or what?
I used the parking light circuit to power my Hella relay. It is a switched power type circuit, just find the parking light wire that goes to 12 volts when the parking lights are on. Then use a switch to ground for the other side of the relay coil. Of course, you want to supply the new lights with separate power (fused of course).
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Old Jan 1, 2010 | 06:33 PM
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id use 12-14ga wire to the lights wire them up like soo the green wire is a fused 12v hot or to like the parking light hot
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Old Jan 1, 2010 | 07:30 PM
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sounds like you grabbed the wrong wire in the parking light harness... wait a min... you toggle the switch and the idiot light flashes on and off but no other lights come on? sounds like you need to check the wires at the relay you may have them hooked up wrong. Check them against the diagram posted above... check also that the switch is hooked up correctly... in the diagram your white supply wire (3A fused) is connected to (or should be according to how you say you wired it) the + on the parking lights not the HI/LO/IGN as shown in the diagram.
hope this helps a bit
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Old Jan 1, 2010 | 08:38 PM
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so ive got them working know...since i had an marlin bumper kind of got me messed up. what i was doing was i putting the ground wire onto the clamp that i mount my hellas onto the bumper.

so i searched and finyly i saw a picture where someone scrathed the paint off the fire wall to get connact....then that answerd all my problema...so what i had to do was just extend the ground wires an the lights to get to t he engine bay to ground, then WALLA....they worked

i was SOOO confued why the they wouldnt work, i went over and over, and all thanks to one picture soved all my problems lol
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Old Jan 1, 2010 | 11:29 PM
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D'oh! nobody thought to mention you should check the ground on the light itself... well you figured it out and that's whats important...
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Old Jan 2, 2010 | 12:20 AM
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YAY now lets see some pics
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