[urq] High beam indicator stuck on, high beam stalk has no effect- what did I break?

[Mike Sylvester]

Relays can get stuck in the closed position.
This is not necessarily due to too much current.
It is caused by switching an inductive DC load.
When the contact opens there is arch that will damage the contact area
and eventually weld them together. 

Regardless, it sounds like he has already removed the relayed harness.
It sounds like his stalk has lost the ability to latch in the low beam
position.

Mike

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [urq] High beam indicator stuck on, high beam stalk has no
> effect- what did I break?
> From: Stephen Kraus <ub3ratl4sf00 at gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, June 25, 2012 1:35 pm
> To: Steve Mills <s.b.mills at gmail.com>
> Cc: urq at audifans.com
> 
> 
> Sounds like the relay is going bad or you have too much current going
> through it for the H1/H4 Headlights.
> 
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Steve Mills <s.b.mills at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I had Susquehanna Motorsports build a relayed harness to properly power the
> > euro H1/H4 headlights on my 85 UrQ. Unfortunately the harness had some
> > wiring issues- the high beams would latch on and not shut off unless I
> > turned the headlights off completely.
> >
> > I wasn't happy with how I had the harness powered and routed, so after
> > using it on the drive up and back from Winter Driving school I've pulled
> > the harness out of the car and only have the low beams connected. Despite
> > putting the wiring back to stock, the high beam indicator is on all the
> > time and pulling on the high/low beam stalk has no effect. I can't really
> > tell whether the highs are really on or not because they're not connected,
> > but the high beam indicator certainly thinks they are.
> >
> > Did I fry the stalk, or is the problem potentially somewhere else? I
> > checked the wiring diagram in the Bentley and there doesn't appear to be a
> > relay or anything else involved in switching between high and low. All I
> > see is power from the switch to the stalk, and then from the stalk to the
> > headlights- I was expecting the stalk to trigger a relay somewhere, but
> > there's no evidence of it I can see in the wiring diagram. Am I missing
> > something? Any hints would be useful- I've created some adapter harnesses
> > so I can wire in the high beams, but I don't want to wire in the highs if
> > I'm just going to blind oncoming traffic.
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