Hello guys,
I am in need of some help and i am hoping i can get it here. I installed a set of Hella 500 FF lights today and can not get these darn things to work. The instructions are not the greatest but as far as i can tell I have everything wired correctly. I called their tech support today and for lack of better words it was a pain in the butt and did not get anything resolved.

Here is my issue, they will not turn on, the switch will not light up and i keep blowing the inline fuse to the switch. Here is how it is wired:

Red wire to the battery from the relay
Black wires from lights to the relay and the lights are grounded
yellow wire from the relay to the switch
blue wire from the relay is grounded
green wire from the batter to the switch (this way i can turn on whenever i want)
switch is grounded

The switch that came with the kit i was told was bad from their tech support because it would not light, but i did have 12 VDC at the switch and the fuse did not blow. When i turned the switch on and off i did not have any VDC from the yellow wire off the switch. I bought a new switch today and as soon as i turned the switch on it lite for a split second then blew the green inline fuse from the switch to the battery. I added pics with both switches as well

Any help would be great guys.






Thanks,
DJ

 

Are you sure you have the wires on the relay on the correct pins for what they do??



Do the lights work?? Have you checked to make sure??

The fact a fuse blew means something is hooked up wrong.

Just how did you ground the lights back to the battery or to a place on the block??

Just how much of a load are the lights and does the fuse match it??

 

You've got a short......eh.

Where did you ground the lights too? Is the relay wired up right? All the ground on the switch does is illuminate it. You don't have to run a power wire all the way back to the battery for that switch, pretty sure there's a hot wire under the dash. Ya got power goin the wrong way somewhere...

 

After checking everything again (20th time) i think i found the problem. My light kit was missing the relay when i got it, the store took one from the black out kit. The instructions in the 500 FF shows the relay number placement different from the relay i got from the store when they took the other from the box. The red and yellow are in different spots, went back to the store and they are ordering another 500 FF kit to check the relays.

 

Not all 4 pin relays have the pins in the same places .Nor are they the same coil voltage.

That is why most relays have the diagram on the cover.

You have the contacts and you have the coil.

The contacts are the one side System Voltage the other is to the load.

The coil is the power source on one side the other goes to ground

That is why each relay is wired to the diagram on the relay case