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Spotlight wiring woes...
narked:
Yesterday Disco Matt kindly came over to Ponterwyd to give me a hand (read: do most of the work...) wiring up the spots on my roof bar.
A three way switch was used, to allow for: Off, On, On with Main Beam.
The 'Off' position works fine ;)
'On' is currently not operational as I've not run a switched 12v feed to it yet, need to track down a suitable wire to splice onto.
'On With Main Beam' is doing *something*. With the lights off, using the stalk to flash the main beams results in the spots flashing along with the headlights. Bingo! Turn the headlights on, switch to full beam, and the spots come on. However, switch back to dipped beam, and the spotlights remain on. Any ideas?
Guardian.:
REALAY STICKING ON GEt a decent hella one as my rooflight used to get stuck on, put a good relay in and not had a problem.
Evilgoat:
You are on or close to the capcity of the relay or theres is power comming fron somewhere else.
Buy a 100nF capacitor from Maplin, ceramic jobby, and put it accross the switched contacts. This 'quenches' the spark thats welding the contacts together.
narked:
--- Quote from: Guardian. on February 21, 2008, 19:45:48 ---REALAY STICKING ON GEt a decent hella one as my rooflight used to get stuck on, put a good relay in and not had a problem.
--- End quote ---
Could be, but it's two relays, one for the outer pair, one for the inner, and both are remaining on, so seems a bit coincidental.
wizard:
Have a look at this diagram.
Wire the main beam to switch in a relay as Mr guardian suggests.
http://www.wizardbilt.com/spotlight%20circuit%201.GIF
Or this one
http://www.wizardbilt.com/SPOTLIGHT%20CIRCUIT%202.jpg
Regards
wizard :twisted:
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