wiring to make my lows stay on when the highs are on

[Paul_]

is there any wiring mod i can do to make it sp that when the high beams are turned on, the lows don't dim to nothing?

[85crownHPP]

ooOOooo a new thread!

hhmmm Im sure it can be done... I would start by re-wiring the lights with relays like some folks around here have done, then have the high beam signal activate the relays for both sets of lights, and use a diode between the high and low beam relays so that the low beams wont make the high beams come on.... yeah that should work

[Grand Marquis GT]

This relay thing.

People should enlighten me, i wanna do it.

[marquisman]

ha, funny thing u ask that! on my 91 wagon the previous owner put a high beam lamp(2A)in place of the regular head light, so when u put the high beams on the headlight goes out!...its not a sugestion, jus letting u know! :snicker:

[Grand Marquis GT]

strange..but it would work, I think...

Id be worried bout frying a high beam, i dont think they got as much of a duty cycle...

[gsn2984]

Relays are not hard at all. There are four terminals on the bottom of a relay (most have 5 but the middle one is not needed). One you wire directly to the battery with a fuse of course, 30 Amp should be good. One of the other terminals goes to a good ground contact. One wire you cut from your original harness.

With this you just find the positive power wire going to your headlights and put that into the input terminal. The last terminal goes back to the wire you just cut from the harness. This way when the lights are turned on, it makes the relay become active and pull the power directly from the battery instead of having to go through the switch which can go bad. That would be if you were doing two headlamps for either high or low beams. I like running one relay for 2 lights, so that would equal 3 relays. 1 for Low beams, 1 for High beams, and 1 for just the middle high beams. Right now I am only running 2 relays but that is because my middle high beams are unconnected to regular lights and only my flashers. Before trips to the junkyard, I had to get my relays off of Ebay because they were prewired. I bought a nice one that had a jumper on the bottom so I only had 6 wires coming out of it (instead of 8). There was one large power wire, one negative, and then 2 inputs and 2 outputs. It worked great for what I needed. Oh, and make sure when getting relays, you get ones that go up to 30 amps. I have seen some that only do 10. If you go to the junkyard, you can find relays all over the place. Radioshack sells them for about 7 each, if that were true I have over 200 dollars worth of relays in my garage! I collect them like used oil.

Other note: When my lows are on my regular high/low beams are low in brightness, but when I turn them to high the beams get very bright. Now I was reading in another thread that they don't want their high/low beams to dim when they turn on their high beams... is it supposed to be brighter normally and then when the highs are turned on, it is supposed to get dimmer to let the highs take over? If it is I have been driving in the dark for a while.

[Paul_]

i'll have to work on this this week,lol

maybe in a couple years i'll just get a proper hid kit. a box with hids would be badass

[grimor]

hmm

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