Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 17:41:08 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Charles D Earl <cdearl@cats.ucsc.edu>
Subject: fog light wiring questions
I'm ready to begin the project of installing my new Hella 500 fog lights
on the van (thanks for the suggestion Sean). The quality seems
excellent, however, the instructions are somewhat vague. I'm unable to
check the archives as I currently have no internet access. Perhaps one
of you has done this or knows electronics better than I :)
1)Type of installation: independant or with parking lights. If wired
through parking lights, is there a heavy load being put upon the parking
light switch/circuit even though power from the battery is being supplied
to a relay (55 watt)? To do this the instructions show a wire running
from the relay to the switch. Then you run a wire from the switch to the
parking light. The parking light has 3 wires, which one do I connect to,
the brown one (I think this is ground), blk w/white stiped one or gray
with blk strips one. The switch confuses me, the diagram only shows 2
wires running from it, relay to switch and parking light to switch. Yet,
the switch has 3 connections on it: earth, load and supply. Is the wire
from the relay the load, does supply go to the parking light (its an
illuminated switch) and do I additionally ground the earth connection?
Doing it independantly. Perhaps this is simpler, but the instructions
don't cover this. It seems the only difference would be that I can run
the fog lights by themselves, something I wouldn't do, but, thats why I
wonder if the parking light method runs the risk of burning up the
parking/headlight switch. Doing it independantly would bypass this. The
wiring/switch/relay supplied seems very heavy duty.
So if I do it independantly, do I ground the switch instead of running it
to the parking light? And again, which of the 3 connections on the
switch do I use for what.
2)1 of the examples in the instructions seems to show how to hook the fog
lights up in conjunctins with the highbeams, something I would do with
driving lights but not with fog lights. However, 1 of the 4 connections
on the relay seems to be just for connecting to the highbeams (the other
3 are: battery to relay, relay to both fog lights and relay to
switch). The instructions don't show what to do if you're not using the
highbeams. Do I just leave it empty, if I hook the fog lights up
independantly or with the parking lights, or do I need to ground it or
something else?
A lot of questions, I know. And I would be very grateful If anyone has
any advice. I'm worried about frying something! Mounting the lights and
running the wires is no problem, just the actual attachments!
TIA!
Charles
'83.5 Westy (wants to see in fog!)
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