After realizing my ghetto way of wiring my JDMs is BAD....I bought the Relays...them seem simple enough to wire, I'm just curious as to where you guys put them....and how you covered them up? Thanks in advance!
I just used some wire loom and wrapped the whole mess in black tape. If the relays came with a hole for a screw you could find a bolt and attach them there. I kept the relay for each headlight on it own side but if you wanted to string wire that long you could locate all the relays on one side.
Originally posted by phatfarm Joel i need you too hookup my JDMS at my body shop.. how much those relay cost? I buy you wendy's, come on boss!
Yup I can do it for ya....Wendy's? It's a deal...the relays cost $13 at some parts place I can get them for you...Just bring me a soldering gun. Do you want the H1's (middle) to work? Personally I don't need them but we can hook them up to a switch if you want....
I just used some wire loom and wrapped the whole mess in black tape. If the relays came with a hole for a screw you could find a bolt and attach them there. I kept the relay for each headlight on it own side but if you wanted to string wire that long you could locate all the relays on one side.
Good luck
Cool, I was thinking about doing something with the stock headlight relay under the fuse box....that would be clean and it would only require 1 relay....basically get some prongs with wire ends to solder to, then run short wires to the relay and somehow make it all clean in the box...would that work?
Yeah that might work if you get all the wires right. I decided to upgrade the feed wires while I was at it and installed a seperate relay to power the headlights straight from the battery as well. If you don't plan on putting in some higher wattage bulbs and you can figure out how to put relays in the box then go for it. It would definately be a clean install then.
The DRL's on my work van come on when the parking brake is released.
You could wire up another relay to turn on the H1's when your car in on and the e-brake is off. True DRL.
Does anybody know id the H1's turn off when the regular headlamps are turned on?
I don't understand why you can't just hook up the JDMs on your old headlight wiring, I know it's not the same bulbs but can't you just change the sockets?
Originally posted by Forbidden I don't understand why you can't just hook up the JDMs on your old headlight wiring, I know it's not the same bulbs but can't you just change the sockets?
That's the way I used to do it, but there's a problem:
On the old headlight setup, when you turn on the highs (inside bulb), the low beams (outside) stay on as well.
So when you switch to JDM H4's, the Hi/Lo is in the same bulb. Thus when you turn on your highs your lows stay on, which is a no-no...it will overheat the bulb, as it was designed to only have one filament at a time lit....so the relay will turn the lows off when the highs come on...
I plan on ordering some JDM one piece headlights soon, would any of you guys tell me how you guys wired the headlights, and what materials you used? I'm not really electronic savy, but I have soldering expierence.
Originally posted by hasrice I plan on ordering some JDM one piece headlights soon, would any of you guys tell me how you guys wired the headlights, and what materials you used? I'm not really electronic savy, but I have soldering expierence.
I understand what you say but I always thought that is was inside one for the daytime driving light and the outside one for the Hi/Lo beam? I'll have to check this out when I get my car back... cause one way or another we have 2 bulbs and 3 different light settings
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