confussed on wiring spot lights

[ian,s zuki]

Hi all

 i'm a bit confussed on wiring up some spot lights tring to get them to come on with main beam . i have wired up the relay i just need the switch wire to operate the relay. sounds simple just come off the poss going to the lamp hears the problem there is 12v on wire untill you switch it then it drops to 0. but the high beam comes on and the spots go off? any help i,m using the passenger side as there is less wires i have a red, red& white & white&blue.

[ian,s zuki]

P.S

 i forgot to mention it's on a jimny



    Cheers Ian

[lift man]

you will need to test which wire is live when you switch to main beam,then connect to it...

[lift man]

here is the wireing of the relay,,,

[ian,s zuki]

hi lift man


the relay is wired up correctly and i know which wire is the high beam, the problem is that there is 12v on the wire all the time evan when the keys are out and the lights are off ? when you put main beam on the voltage drops to 0 . so the switch wire has no voltage to power the relay. the only way i can think of is to use a normaly closed relay instead of a normaly open . the problem with this is the relay will be draining power from the battery even when the engine is off the only time it won't be pulling power from the battery is when the lights are on !! and i don't know if these relays are designed to work with the coil of the relay being pulled in all the time while the lights are not on .

    any idea's

    any one

[generation-x]

ian/lift man
you do no suzuki run a switch earth system?
so wiring a relay as it shud be wont work

simon

[ian,s zuki]

no i didn't know that! thanks
any suggestions how i can get around this problem, cos you seem to have a better idea than me!

cheers ian

[generation-x]

hang on ian ill find you the right relay diagram for ya m8y
why is it when u no its about but cant find it ill dig it out for ya ian

simon

[generation-x]

found it lol
thanx to dave jones for the info
http://www.k9rdj.co.uk/spotwiring.html

simon :lol:

[colin]

had the same problem on my jimny and i am an auto electrcian and found when it was wired covetional via relay it put on main beam warning lap on dimy all the time

the anser we found is as follows take the two wires from the coil contacts of the relay to the back off the headlamp bulb plug and conect to the cable that give 12v across them only when on high beam and the other two contacts on the relay ..take one to battery with 15 amp fuse the other to the new lamps  

hope this helps if not i can pm you tel no
colin

[colin]

pm,d you my phone no call if you need help

[Mart]

told you its was the switched earth matey    your avatar would look better with this pic

[ian,s zuki]

hi all


 it's easy when you know how !!!!!

  thanks for all your help that link was very usefull cheers simon ! i didn't get your pm colin but thanks anyway.

    Cheers ian


P.S  has the zuk gone yet mart do you fancy an other outing

[Mart]

its not gone yet mate but dont wanna nacker it up before it goes lol

[Evilgoat]

Glad you sorted it. Its a pig if you dont know about it. I had a wiring diagram for it specially for zooks. It'll turn up again when my website comes back.

Rich