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H4 HID conversion kit

That doesn't make sense... you are saying that your stock head lamp harness cam power halogen bulbs, but can't flip a relay over? Run me through exactly how it is wired and how you tried it originally.
 
The relay I hooked up has power and a ground. I cut the blue wire (low beams) on the stock harness before the connector that goes to the headlamp, in half. The side that is coming from the harness, I hooked up to one switch of the relay, and the wire going to the female socket (blue, other end of cut wire) to the other switch of the relay.
 
w0mps said:
The relay I hooked up has power and a ground. I cut the blue wire (low beams) on the stock harness before the connector that goes to the headlamp, in half. The side that is coming from the harness, I hooked up to one switch of the relay, and the wire going to the female socket (blue, other end of cut wire) to the other switch of the relay.
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Check fr a bad ground, double check proper wiring of the relay, try another relay.
 
I don't think it is. Shouldn't the blue wire connect to the 85 terminal, with 86 connected to ground, and not the empty headlight socket? If you just cut the stock wiring, and connected both ends to the relay, it's not grounded, is it?
 
Maybe I got ahead of myself. What kit are you using? Can you provide a link to it? Does it plug into the stock headlight plugs? Does it have it's own wiring harness, that depends on the stock headlight wiring only for switching?
 
You plug the bulb into the headlamp and the other side into the ballast. A red and black also goes from the ballast to the bulb.
 
On the bottom of the relay you will see numbers by the terminals. #30 comes from the battery, or what ever high current source you use. #87 will go to the positive side on the HID ballasts. #85 goes to ground, and #86 goes to your switch, or stock headlamp harness. One the ballast make sure the negative goes to a good ground source. One last thing.. from the battery to the relay and from the relay to the ballast make sure you use a fairly large gauge wire.. 12 or 10 gauge. Also, it would be best to pust a fuse between the battery and the relay.. the closer to the battery the better.
 
w0mps said:
The relay I hooked up has power and a ground. I cut the blue wire (low beams) on the stock harness before the connector that goes to the headlamp, in half. The side that is coming from the harness, I hooked up to one switch of the relay, and the wire going to the female socket (blue, other end of cut wire) to the other switch of the relay.
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ok ill try to help, the blue wire is a 12v + wire
the relay may have more than 4 terminals but basicly you have two parts to the relay the switch part which is just like cutting the wire in half and touching it back togeather
and the load part which requires both a positive 12v +
and a negitive- (ground the load portion is what makes and breaks the switch portion of the relay

so that being said: one side of the blue wire that you cut(the one coming from the wireing harness) not the one that goes to the headlight will go to the relay (see the above posts for the number it will be the load portion of the relay, if the relay has a diagram on the side of it the load is the little squiggly line,
the other side of the load (squiggly line) will go to ground -
the other two terminals one will be the other side of the blue wire you cut and the other side will go to another 12v source (battery) and should be fused this needs to also feed the other headlight or this has to be duplicated for the other side
after reading this over it seems confusing to me so ill keep watching the post and try along with the others on here to answer any specific questions good luck :smoker:

ok just went out and grabbed a relay i had #85 goes to ground
#86 blue wire from harness
#30 12v fused from battery
#87 to headlight low beam wire (other side of blue you cut) SORRY TALYN I DIDNT SEE YOUR POST AND LIKE TALYN SAID 87 TO + ON BALLAST (NOT LOW BEAM )
and if they still flicker you can put a capacitor purchased at radioshack inline with the ballast and thats what cured my flicker
 
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Alright, I double checked the relay and it is wired fine. But how it is setup now is the wire going back to my switch that it's hooked up to now is on #86. I swapped the wire that is coming from my factory switch onto that prong and still got nothing. Double triple checked and still nothing. It almost seems as if my factory switch isn't sending a signal to my relay, when pulled out.
 
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Alright, I double checked the relay and it is wired fine. But how it is setup now is the wire going back to my switch that it's hooked up to now is on #86. I swapped the wire that is coming from my factory switch onto that prong and still got nothing. Double triple checked and still nothing. It almost seems as if my factory switch isn't sending a signal to my relay, when pulled out.
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I'm not following the part of the #86 prong. Is it attached to the factory switch or not? Do you have good grounds?
 
its either or. either you are useing the blue wire from the harness to "turn" on the relay or your using the switch wire to do it in reality there the same wire do you hear the relay make a faint click when you turn lights on?if so that part is wired ok
 
forget the switch wire inside and use the hedlight wire whats the external switch wired to ? can u explain what wires your external switch is using
 
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I have a positive and ground going to the relay. That's a given. Then I have my wire going to the ballasts connected to the relay and a signal wire going to a switch. The switch has 12 volts where it's at. Now if I take off my signal wire going to the external switch and connect the wire going from the harness back to the stock switch, it won't work.
 
w0mps said:
My grounds are fine, the lights go on with the 12v external switch I installed, just not with my headlight switch.
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If your stock head light switch can turn on the stock halogen headlights it won't have a problem flipping a relay. Have you thought this might be above your head?
 
Instead of grounding 86 and connecting the blue wire (low beam + ) to 85, he's cut the blue wire, and has either end of it hooked up to 85 and 86, or at least that's what he described earlier. That would mean, and someone correct me if I'm missing this, that 85 and 86 are tied to the same point, electrically speaking, and the solenoid isn't properly grounded.

w0mps said:
The relay I hooked up has power and a ground. I cut the blue wire (low beams) on the stock harness before the connector that goes to the headlamp, in half. The side that is coming from the harness, I hooked up to one switch of the relay, and the wire going to the female socket (blue, other end of cut wire) to the other switch of the relay.
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