chris_mack
New Member
Ok, firstly, I need to apologise, as Im young, not very good at electrics and some of the methods here may seem a little unusual!
I have bought these spotlights with this wiring kit, to put on my bull bar.
I put them on, and wired them up as below. I didn't know where to wire into the main beam for the relay, so I found the correct wire running down the drivers side wing and cut away some of the insulation so i could wrap the wire to the relay around it, then taped it all up again.
However, to start with they both worked, but not very bright. Is this because of a bad earth, not heavy duty enough wire (it should be ok as it is the wire from the supplied wiring kit!), or because they are wired in series and need to be in parallel?
Anyway the next day, I noticed that the first spot was working very brightly, and the second not at all. After a bit of fiddling I realised it was earthing through the case of spot 1.
So do I need to wire them in parallel? If so, how? There were only 4 connections on the back of the relay, only 1 of which goes to the spot... so how do I connect the second spot up?
Ive also just ordered a lightbar with 4 lights to go on the roof, which I was planning on wiring up in the same way but with an override switch for on road use. But il wait til Ive got this problem sorted before I start on that!
Cheers
I have bought these spotlights with this wiring kit, to put on my bull bar.
I put them on, and wired them up as below. I didn't know where to wire into the main beam for the relay, so I found the correct wire running down the drivers side wing and cut away some of the insulation so i could wrap the wire to the relay around it, then taped it all up again.
However, to start with they both worked, but not very bright. Is this because of a bad earth, not heavy duty enough wire (it should be ok as it is the wire from the supplied wiring kit!), or because they are wired in series and need to be in parallel?
Anyway the next day, I noticed that the first spot was working very brightly, and the second not at all. After a bit of fiddling I realised it was earthing through the case of spot 1.
So do I need to wire them in parallel? If so, how? There were only 4 connections on the back of the relay, only 1 of which goes to the spot... so how do I connect the second spot up?
Ive also just ordered a lightbar with 4 lights to go on the roof, which I was planning on wiring up in the same way but with an override switch for on road use. But il wait til Ive got this problem sorted before I start on that!
Cheers
