Ok before i start i have to say i know i am overlooking the obvious solution. I was tired and in a hurry and i am sure i was just missing something here. I need to pull 12V switched positive from my high beams to activate the relay on my light bar. I also have a switch in line so i can choose to have no light bar on at all. But with the switch depressed and the high beam activated the light bar will be on. I am 99.9% there. But i am missing something dumb.
So this is where i am. I HAD Slee auxiliary light harness and Slee high beam adapter in place and everything was great. Dont ask why but i pulled the Slee auxiliary harness and installed a Morimoto harness. The Morimoto is wires like every diagram you see on the Internet. The Slee is wired a little differently. The difference is that the Slee has poles 85 and 86 BOTH coming off the high beams.he Morimoto and every other diagram has one of them grounded and the other being switched 12v to activate you lights. This all good both look like they work. If i hook the wire from 86 up to my batt everything works great, the switch turn the relay and light bar on and off. So i see no problems with the new harness at all.
I still have the Slee high beam trigger harness installed. high beams work perfectly normal as always. But i have a empty plug with one red and one black wire now coming off the high beam. Perfect I thought. just hook the red positive line off the high beam into the Morimoto switched wire. It should only have power when the high beam is on.
Like i said i was tired and in a rush but looking at the multi meter i was getting 12v power on the red line comming off the Slee high beam trigger harness any time the low or highs were on. So in other words the light bar would not dim when i dimmed high beams. It will have power anytime the lows OR highs are on. I tried messing around to see if the ground was switched or something but i had to stop working and take care of other things. I went round and round in my head because it is so simple. The positive lead tot he high beams should ONLY HAVE POWER when the high beam is activated. So what am i missing? But whey does the Slee harness pull both positive and neg off of the high beam to trigger both 85 and 86 on the relay? Is there something strange about how our headlights are wired?
So this is where i am. I HAD Slee auxiliary light harness and Slee high beam adapter in place and everything was great. Dont ask why but i pulled the Slee auxiliary harness and installed a Morimoto harness. The Morimoto is wires like every diagram you see on the Internet. The Slee is wired a little differently. The difference is that the Slee has poles 85 and 86 BOTH coming off the high beams.he Morimoto and every other diagram has one of them grounded and the other being switched 12v to activate you lights. This all good both look like they work. If i hook the wire from 86 up to my batt everything works great, the switch turn the relay and light bar on and off. So i see no problems with the new harness at all.
I still have the Slee high beam trigger harness installed. high beams work perfectly normal as always. But i have a empty plug with one red and one black wire now coming off the high beam. Perfect I thought. just hook the red positive line off the high beam into the Morimoto switched wire. It should only have power when the high beam is on.
Like i said i was tired and in a rush but looking at the multi meter i was getting 12v power on the red line comming off the Slee high beam trigger harness any time the low or highs were on. So in other words the light bar would not dim when i dimmed high beams. It will have power anytime the lows OR highs are on. I tried messing around to see if the ground was switched or something but i had to stop working and take care of other things. I went round and round in my head because it is so simple. The positive lead tot he high beams should ONLY HAVE POWER when the high beam is activated. So what am i missing? But whey does the Slee harness pull both positive and neg off of the high beam to trigger both 85 and 86 on the relay? Is there something strange about how our headlights are wired?
