Spotlight questions

[snotgoblin]

Evening all,

Done some searching and have also racked my brain... Didn't take long!

Anyhow, I am putting some LED lights on the front of my cruiser.

Running 24V they will draw under 2 Amps. I want to have them switched but legal for WOF time so only on on high beam.

1. With such a low current draw do I need a relay?

2. Will need to have a feed off the high beam lead so will that necessitate a relay?

The last time I wired up some spotties the same way I had a truck to copy off. Been googling for a diagram, but most are just for switched lights independent of the high beam.

Cheers,

Matt

[Mattman]

Are your headlights negative or positive switched?

Do you want to be able to run the lights independent of the headlights?

2 amps is nothing. If the headlights are positive switched then you could tap that feed and run it to the LEDs. Then use an earth and run it through a switch and feed the LEDs.

Matt

[snotgoblin]

Matt(man),

Cool name!

Unsure, but if negative switched I like your idea, can tap of the high beam feed and switch the negative.

Open fir other ideas too. Will bust out the wiring diagrams I think I have.

1989 BJ74

[diogenese]

This thread has a diagram for earth switched headlamps.
http://www.ausubaru.com/forum/showthread.php?t=17340


If you have positive switched headlamps use this diagram with your extra switch in the orange wire.http://www.rhinoforums.net/attachments/ ... lighrs.jpg

[snotgoblin]

Awesome thanks Diogenes

[dan88]

kind of on the same track here, want to do the same with my reverse lights because the vitara ones are pathetic, is it legal to have extra reverse lights. or should i just throw them on an extra switch?

cheers

[ChurchurDan]

If you hook up extra reverse lights just use the original wiring to switch a relay to turn them on. If you have them on an switch they need to be wired so that they can not be turned on with the headlights on (the big trucks have to be wired like this to get a COF so I am guessing cars are the same).

[diogenese]

kind of on the same track here, want to do the same with my reverse lights because the vitara ones are pathetic, is it legal to have extra reverse lights. or should i just throw them on an extra switch?

cheers

You can only have two lights and they have to work off a gearbox switch or only come on with the headlights off.
My rear facing work lamp has been on for the last two wofs without anyone complaing;)

[dan88]

thanks for that

[snotgoblin]

I did the same to my old 413 Zuk. The WOF guy got all snotty the first time he saw it, it was just a work lamp wired as a reverse lamp...

All legal, but any sized aux lamp on the back of a Zuk looks like a searchlight...

[Mattman]

Really depends where you go. My reverse lamp has a switch to toggle between running as a proper reverse lamp and also as a work light.

My front light bar has just a simple on switch. No issues at WOF time so far.

Matt

[snotgoblin]

Spotlights fitted. Bolted on the aluminium CRV nudge bar and bolted lights on to that. I can hear you all going; "What, a CRV nudge bar, on a cruiser, ugly..."

Lights bolted to that. Had a look in the engine bay, RH head light had a two pin plug hanging off it, tapped into the common and high beam leads off the H4 plug. So duplicated that on the LH side and sorted.

Next step will be a switch that will let me have high beam without the spotlights... And perhaps one that allows me to just have the spots with nothing else...

Pic(s) to follow...