Sport Headlight Wiring conversion
01-31-2019, 02:35 PM
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Sport Headlight Wiring conversion
I bought and installed sport headlights in my “95. My originals were done and the new lights are markedly better.
My question is, should I add relays to illuminate more than one set of filaments at a time for better lighting?
I have a sport schematic and know how wire the relays to power any combination of low and high beam filaments. I have four bulbs and each bulb has two filaments.
Should I run all low beam filaments or just two and then add more filaments as I need more light with an aux switch?
My question is, should I add relays to illuminate more than one set of filaments at a time for better lighting?
I have a sport schematic and know how wire the relays to power any combination of low and high beam filaments. I have four bulbs and each bulb has two filaments.
Should I run all low beam filaments or just two and then add more filaments as I need more light with an aux switch?
02-01-2019, 09:23 AM
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Don't try to run the additional filaments through the stock headlight circuit - its not up to it. If you run all filaments through relays from the batteries, you take the bottleneck of the weak headlight switch and wiring out of the equation and get best results. The headlight circuit is then used only to trigger the relays. IIRC, the conversion harness I bought runs all the lows or all the highs. Be sure to check the condition of your headlight switch and connector. When I bought my truck used, the switch/connector must have been overheated. Some of the partitions between terminals on the connector were misshapen and some of the terminals on the switch were loose. BWD (formerly Borg Warner) makes a good replacement switch and connector/pigtail.
02-05-2019, 10:56 AM
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Use the search function, there are several threads on this subject that includes diagrams.
02-05-2019, 01:17 PM
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02-05-2019, 01:23 PM
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Legally only 4 headlight bulbs can be on at one time. How LED's play into this law I guess could be up for discussion since they obviously use more than one diode per bulb.
02-05-2019, 08:13 PM
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I want plenty of light on low beams without blinding anyone.
02-05-2019, 09:17 PM
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The bulbs that have more than one element in them are high/low beam bulbs. And they're not supposed to have both elements on at the same time (continuously) otherwise they can easily overheat.
02-06-2019, 09:21 AM
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I haven't had a problem with that yet. And I've been running that way for a year.
02-06-2019, 09:23 AM
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May also have something to do with the outside temperature when I run them.
02-11-2019, 12:26 PM
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No, like I said in an earlier thread I can turn them all on plus fog lights (super bright mode) or I run all 4 low beams in low (never get flashed) or all high beams in high. In the winter up here it's dark most of the time. The hours I commute there is almost no traffic so I do have them all on most of the time.
02-11-2019, 01:43 PM
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Are you using 9007/9004 Halogen Bulbs or upgraded to different Bulbs? If you have four lights on low and four lights on High you must have all four light sockets wired the same. I installed the sports lights on my 98' Dodge Ram and the 9004 high and low beam work but the inside bulb does not change. While driving home at night my headlights went off for about ten seconds then came back on, this happened three times before I got home. Would anyone know the fix? I wired the bulbs as Alpine's drawing suggested. I'm wondering if I have the proper Bulbs or just wired wrong. I sure need some help. Thank you, Tom.