I have a set of Hella lights that have a green wire and a white wire coming out of the light assembly. The directions do not tell which wire is which because it came with the factory wiring harness for a FJ and I am putting them on my FZJ80. I have the SLEE upgrade and aux harness I am connecting it to but am trying to figure out which wire goes where. Any experience with these lights?
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one of the wires goes to positive, the other one to negative...
If it has a metal housing you should check continuity from either wire to the housing.
if there is continuity form either wire to ground you should make that one negative. Unless there is a ballast or something it shouldnt matter.
If it has a metal housing you should check continuity from either wire to the housing.
if there is continuity form either wire to ground you should make that one negative. Unless there is a ballast or something it shouldnt matter.
What he said, but it isn't as simple as tapping into your harness. Post up what you are trying to accomplish and we can be more help.
The white wire is the lead wire and the green is the ground.
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Really, I was thinking it was the opposite with white being the ground. I am pulling it apart and checking it out now.
What I am trying to accomplish is installing the Slee upgrade harness and the Aux harness I bought. The Aux harness plugs into the upgrade harness (although the option 1 and 2 are opposite what the directions read, no biggie) which is simple. The Aux harness has leads coming out to the Aux lights that have a Black wire and a Blue wire. I "assume" the Black wire is ground and the Blue is the lead. My Hella lights have 2 wires coming from them one is a Green with Brown stripe and the other is White with Black stripe.
The question is do I connect Blue to Green or White. Time to take it apart I guess.
What I am trying to accomplish is installing the Slee upgrade harness and the Aux harness I bought. The Aux harness plugs into the upgrade harness (although the option 1 and 2 are opposite what the directions read, no biggie) which is simple. The Aux harness has leads coming out to the Aux lights that have a Black wire and a Blue wire. I "assume" the Black wire is ground and the Blue is the lead. My Hella lights have 2 wires coming from them one is a Green with Brown stripe and the other is White with Black stripe.
The question is do I connect Blue to Green or White. Time to take it apart I guess.
You will find that when you take it apart that the white is the lead.
Just wired the same lights on my friends truck.
Unless it is different because it came off another rig.
Just wired the same lights on my friends truck.
Unless it is different because it came off another rig.
Thats strange because the hellas I just installed on my friends rig the white wire was the lead.
Just to be clear, your hellas are now integrated into the headlight circuit? When high beams are on, hellas are on? I found a couple of situations in fog and whiteout conditions at night that I preferred the low beams on with the hellas, or just the hellas, no headlights. I kinda like flexibility...
Since he's using the Slee Aux harness, he could have wired it so that it comes on when only the high beams are on or he could have it wired so that the light only comes on when the low beam is on....unless he strayed from the norm and tapped into the parking light or a constant hot wire.
Aztony,
My Slee Aux harness also was reversed in the directions in which plug to use if I wanted it wired with high vs low beam.
Salue
Aztony,
My Slee Aux harness also was reversed in the directions in which plug to use if I wanted it wired with high vs low beam.
Salue
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Maybe I do not know what the "lead" wire is. The "white" wire on my Hella's was connected to the metal ring the lights connected to and the "green" wire was connected directly to the bulb. I "assumed" the lead was the green wire (direct to the bulb) and the white was the ground (connected to the metal surface).
KliersLC: I have my Hella's connected to the switch and I can turn them on/off at the push of the switch but they can only come one when the lights are on (low or high beam). I can never justify in my mind when I would only want the Hella's on so I wired them this way.
Salue: It is easy enough to swap the connector but it always make you second guess yourself, "Did I do this right?"
KliersLC: I have my Hella's connected to the switch and I can turn them on/off at the push of the switch but they can only come one when the lights are on (low or high beam). I can never justify in my mind when I would only want the Hella's on so I wired them this way.
Salue: It is easy enough to swap the connector but it always make you second guess yourself, "Did I do this right?"
