Re: Relay Woes

[quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)]

In message <199902030837.AAA07349@mt.arias.net> "Romeo Shayne Pavlic'" writes:

> Help!  This stupid reley is starting to drive me nuts.  How can something so
> simple be so hard.
>
> Okay, I have hi power bulbs in the 200 and decided to wire relays into the
> setup.
>
> I wired it as such.
>
> Cut the low and high beam lines under the dash and ran a feed to the relays
> from each of the respective beams.  Then, ran power from a battery supplied
> source to each of the relays.  I grounded the relays correctly.  Now, I ran
> a wire to L and R low and high beam wires from the load posts on the relays.
>   All the correct wires are going to the correct posts on the relays.

Nah.  The BR Motorsport harness uses the connector off the back of the bulb
to drive the relay.  You pull off the connector, which is female, and push
three strips of copper in to 'bend the gender', i.e., make it a male
plug.

Then you wire up the relays from another connector, and push it into the
first.  The 'ooomph' wire to the relay comes direct from the alternator
terminal, and the earth wire is secured to the body side of the main
engine mount.

This way you can pull off the original bulb connector, put in a stock
bulb, and plug the original connector back onto the bulb - hey presto,
back to stock.

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 Phil Payne
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