keel5
Member #1064
- Location
- Mercer County, NJ
I made up a HD loom for my headlights. Just like one gojeep. I used two 30A relays, 12 gage wire for the feeds, and 14 gage wire for the trips. The only thing is the F#*@ING thing is giving me a headache.
The problem in a nut shell is that if I don't have a bulb in the stock socket I get a little over 6 volt to the stock high beam wire even with just the parking lights on. With that voltage there it pulls in the high beam relay and keeps the high beam lit. If I put the bulb back in the stock socket I only get milli-volts and every thing is fine.
I tried to run the trip ground down to the stock socket and the voltage dropped to around 3 volts. this was not enough to pull in the relay but if I put the high beams on they would not shut off. Also, If I had nothing in the socket the head light delay (little silver box under the light switch behind the dash) would buzz with just the parking lights on and stop if I pulled the switch all the way out.
Please help because the lights with the 12.5 volts they got with the new wires is much better then the 9 volts they get without it.
The problem in a nut shell is that if I don't have a bulb in the stock socket I get a little over 6 volt to the stock high beam wire even with just the parking lights on. With that voltage there it pulls in the high beam relay and keeps the high beam lit. If I put the bulb back in the stock socket I only get milli-volts and every thing is fine.
I tried to run the trip ground down to the stock socket and the voltage dropped to around 3 volts. this was not enough to pull in the relay but if I put the high beams on they would not shut off. Also, If I had nothing in the socket the head light delay (little silver box under the light switch behind the dash) would buzz with just the parking lights on and stop if I pulled the switch all the way out.
Please help because the lights with the 12.5 volts they got with the new wires is much better then the 9 volts they get without it.