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Driving Lights and High Beam

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Old May 11, 2005 | 08:49 PM
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Driving Lights and High Beam

I have read some of the old threads and have some questions.

You can tap into the hot wire going to the head lights to feed the driving lights and I also saw some photos where you can run a jumper from the parking light relay to the driving light relay.

Is there a way to turn the driving lights on or off, wheather on high or low beam?

Is the relay normally closed so the lights work until the high beams are turned on them the hot wire that feed the relay is shut off and the relay is now open?

If the relay beaks the hot feed to the driving lights can you just jump from the feed to the driving light to the feed to the relay therfore give it constant power and allowing you to turn them on/off any time you want?

I have not had time to get the meter out just thought I would ask to see if anyone else had.

Also I think I read somewhere that you can buy a relay or something that would also solve this issue.
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Old May 11, 2005 | 09:09 PM
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What I did was add another relay, use the high beam wire to fire the relay. But so that you can have control over high with fogs, or just highs, install a toggle switch in the wire from the high beam circuit to the trigger side of the relay. Does that make sense? Also if you have DRL's you can't just use a jumper from high to fogs or the DRL's will keep your fogs lit all the time. HTH
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Old May 12, 2005 | 01:02 AM
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As it is in the other threads you saw (likely by me) the fogs will be on when the parking lights come on, no matter if the high or low beams are on.

It sounds as if you want to still have control over that, which you can tap into the fog power wire and run a couple wires into the cab and onto a switch and if you use a lighted switch, run a third wire to ground so the light will come on to show the fogs are on.
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