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Originally Posted by Dieselchessy
I read your headlight connector bit, but didn’t understand, and then got distracted. LOL
I’m not sure about what you say about wiring, connectors, and switched grounds. I need to investigate. I’d like to just run a resistor on the high beam side so my indicator works.
Right now I run just one of the resistor boxes from Super bright LED’s on the passenger side. Double sided tape holding it to the air box. It has the connectors on pigtails and 2 of the gold anodized 6 ohm resistors inside it.
It gets pretty hot.
You can easily just unplug it and plug in standard bulbs. Using just one standard bulb let’s the high beam indicator work.
I want to try just one resistor on the high beam side to reduce heat and wasted power.
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This is how I was Thinking on how to fix mine. As our headlights are negative triggered {The low and the high are connected to the ground through the switches with the positive being on pin 2 }
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...48COWZL4&psc=1
You can see parallel relays so that if one quits both your headlights don't go at once. Yet you blow the fuse they both will...:/
I don't want to mess with resisters or changing the wiring of the Rig. Now I can add resister etc to this plug and play harness and switch it to positive triggered.
However, I really want the pin-out from Super Bright LEDs as how the LEDS are actually wired. I have a feeling that they are wired to be positive triggered instead of negative triggered. Or maybe the driver has some logic in it and sensing the wiring and auto pinning the LED for us. This is possibility as well.
Also the reason I am thinking on going this way as I can add fog lights to the low beam circuit really easily too and the circuitry will be there in I just need to add an illuminated switch in the dash and run a cut off switch to control the lights. {low beam feed {spliced into } going to switch then from switch to both Fog lights }. This way my Fogs will shut off when high beams on and can be disabled by the toggle switch in the dash.
Most of my 3rd gen do not have Fog lights well only 2 do. So I am thinking of adding them to the other 3.
I am just not liking the single power source, nor I am liking only one side plugged in. As we have 2 headlight fuses for a reason. So only one can go at any given time while the other still functions.
I am going to think about this for a while before executing a fix. As I want the ability to add my fog lights in as well is see how my LEDS are actually wired.
As it seems pretty easy to fix the high beam indicator problem. ;-)
Also a Link to this issue:
High Beam Indicator - What Triggers it?
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