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Post by quico217 on Mar 16, 2011 17:31:03 GMT -5
DOES ANY ONE KNOW HOW TO WIRE FOGLIGHTS TO PARKING LIGHTS???
I WIRED BOTH FOGLIGHTS 1 TO EACH HEAD LIGHT(THATS HOW I WIRED MY CITYLIGHTS) AND 10 MIN LATER THE FUSE POPPED SOME ONE TOLD ME WIRE THEM BOTH TO ONE HEADLIGHT AND DOUBLE THE AMP ON FUSE....
BUT I'D RATHER DO IT ANOTHER/SAFER WAY THATS NOT GONNA CATCH MY CAR ON FIRE!!!!! SO PLEASE IF ANYBODY CAN HELP ME LMK!!!!
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Post by NEGRO - 7/21/83 - 9/15/13 RIP on Mar 16, 2011 18:11:47 GMT -5
Wire them to parking lights and upthe fuse from a 20 to a 30 and see what happens but be sure to put an on/off switch cuz if not you gonna keep popping fuses...
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Post by quico217 on Mar 16, 2011 18:26:35 GMT -5
Wire them to parking lights and upthe fuse from a 20 to a 30 and see what happens but be sure to put an on/off switch cuz if not you gonna keep popping fuses... IF THATS THE CASE I MIGHT AS WELL JUST WIRE TO THE SWITCH |
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Post by rolla4life on Mar 17, 2011 11:28:31 GMT -5
Hey man by what I am reading you are trying to have FOGS turn on at the same time your headlights come on ,or with your paking lamps? Anyways for that matter your going to need a relay, fogs require more power(AMPS) than parking lamps there for poping fuse occur and will not stop, uping the fuse to a higher amperage one can eventually melt and burn the fuse box even causing wiring damage. A 30 or 40 amp, four(4) prong relay will do it with no problem, using the same parking light wire as the relay trigger. Well here how to do it:On the relay Terminal 30 will be your 12V Battery power (constant power for the relay, will not drain the battery)you can run a wire with an inline FUSE from battery to relay(fuse holder should come with fogs or get one at any auto parts store for cheap,you can put a 20amp fuse in it and have no problems.Relay Terminal 86 will be your chasis ground wire. (make sure you have good stock area for ground to chasis (metal),no need to put it on battery ground since the entire car chasis is grounded). Relay terminal 85 will be your wire from your parking lights trigger wire ( you can tap into the parking light wire and run a piece of wire/ cable in to this terminal (this is going to trigger the relay everytime you turn the your parking lights on and off). Relay terminal 87 will be the wires coming from and to the FOGS (+ positive side) one for each fog of course, make sure you ground the fogs properly to chassis(metal) also, and there you go, make sure you do this right, check all your connections before you turn them on, as long as you do it this way, your good, I do this stuff for a living and for a long time. Hopefully this will work for you and others. Let me know how it goes. Berto
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Post by quico217 on Mar 17, 2011 11:45:18 GMT -5
Hey man by what I am reading you are trying to have FOGS turn on at the same time your headlights come on ,or with your paking lamps? Anyways for that matter your going to need a relay, fogs require more power(AMPS) than parking lamps there for poping fuse occur and will not stop, uping the fuse to a higher amperage one can eventually melt and burn the fuse box even causing wiring damage. A 30 or 40 amp, four(4) prong relay will do it with no problem, using the same parking light wire as the relay trigger. Well here how to do it:On the relay Terminal 30 will be your 12V Battery power (constant power for the relay, will not drain the battery)you can run a wire with an inline FUSE from battery to relay(fuse holder should come with fogs or get one at any auto parts store for cheap,you can put a 20amp fuse in it and have no problems.Relay Terminal 86 will be your chasis ground wire. (make sure you have good stock area for ground to chasis (metal),no need to put it on battery ground since the entire car chasis is grounded). Relay terminal 85 will be your wire from your parking lights trigger wire ( you can tap into the parking light wire and run a piece of wire/ cable in to this terminal (this is going to trigger the relay everytime you turn the your parking lights on and off). Relay terminal 87 will be the wires coming from and to the FOGS (+ positive side) one for each fog of course, make sure you ground the fogs properly to chassis(metal) also, and there you go, make sure you do this right, check all your connections before you turn them on, as long as you do it this way, your good, I do this stuff for a living and for a long time. Hopefully this will work for you and others. Let me know how it goes. Berto WERD!!!! I WAS THINKING ABOUT THAT THE OTHER NIGHT I WAS'NT SURE IF IT WOULD WORK OR NOT BUT IM GOIN TO PEPBOYS LATER AND GET A RELAYED FOGLIGHT HARNESS!! I'LL KEEP YOU POSTED!!!! THANK YOU ROLLA4LIFE!!!!! |
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Post by rolla4life on Mar 17, 2011 11:53:14 GMT -5
No Problem man, I'm here to help others do it right with out a headache  Just make sure you do it as I said and you'll be good man... |
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Post by rolla4life on Mar 17, 2011 12:14:41 GMT -5
Hey quiko217, just buy a relay,no need to spend mo' $,use what you have and thats it bro...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2011 1:29:03 GMT -5
Yeap rolla4life beat me to it, but a very good step by step, that's the way i have mine hooked, but i also installed a switch so i can turn off if i want to, just a relay and you can make the rest of the harness yourself...........
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Post by quico217 on Mar 19, 2011 8:36:12 GMT -5
thanks guys got it all wired up yesterday..................now i gotta rewire the constant 12v wire my battery hold down i guess was rusted and i guess it finally snapped and ripped the wire out of fuse holder!!!!!!! i was pissed!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by rolla4life on Mar 21, 2011 11:07:40 GMT -5
Glad you were able to hook it up. I wired mine to the cruise control switch, and my siren too, so if anyone looks at it looks stock. : )
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Post by quico217 on Mar 22, 2011 12:49:41 GMT -5
YEA MAN LAST NIGHT I FINISHED REWIRING MY FOGLIGHTS THANKS TO MY BATTERY HOLD DOWN!!!! YEA IM NOT A BIG FAN OF RACECAR STATUS EITHER.....  |
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Just make sure you do it as I said and you'll be good man...
Aww man, at least you tried. What are you planning to try next?