Headlight circuit...HID upgrade harness...will this work?
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Headlight circuit...HID upgrade harness...will this work? Hey everyone. First...this isnt on a 4th gen. Its on an 87 Trans AM. But...should still apply for the 93-97 guys anyway.
My question is about building an upgrade harness for my headlights. The car uses the 6054 style bulbs...and right now I have H4 conversion housings. Ive built an upgrade harnes (relays, right from the battery) for my jeep, which is the same headlight. But...Im doing an HID conversion here in a few days. I have Infiniti FX projectors, that are bi-xenon. So I need a way to keep my low beam circuit in the harness energized with the high beams.
I wanted to try to accomplish this all from outside of the car...all with the harness so that its plug and play and easily removed and put back to stock. Basically, for those who dont know, the bi-xenons have a solenoid actuated shutter that will allow the same D2S bulb to produce the low and high beams. Hence the reason I need both circuits to work at once...which is only usually done on quad headlight systems.
I made a quick sketch of what Im thinking about doing... My questions are, will this work...Im pretty sure it will. And second, does anyone know if the split second that the low beams will lose power will hurt the ballasts??? I dont expect to be switching back and forth all that often. I dont think it will hurt because it will be such a brief interuption of power.
Anyways...check out the diagrams and let me know what you all think. I made two...just so its easier to see what it looks like with the low switch on vs. the high switch.
Low beams...
High beams...
If anyone has any better suggestions...please feel free. I can make this harness nice and neat and totally plug and play. So it will keep me from cutting wires or messing with anything inside.
Justin
My question is about building an upgrade harness for my headlights. The car uses the 6054 style bulbs...and right now I have H4 conversion housings. Ive built an upgrade harnes (relays, right from the battery) for my jeep, which is the same headlight. But...Im doing an HID conversion here in a few days. I have Infiniti FX projectors, that are bi-xenon. So I need a way to keep my low beam circuit in the harness energized with the high beams.
I wanted to try to accomplish this all from outside of the car...all with the harness so that its plug and play and easily removed and put back to stock. Basically, for those who dont know, the bi-xenons have a solenoid actuated shutter that will allow the same D2S bulb to produce the low and high beams. Hence the reason I need both circuits to work at once...which is only usually done on quad headlight systems.
I made a quick sketch of what Im thinking about doing... My questions are, will this work...Im pretty sure it will. And second, does anyone know if the split second that the low beams will lose power will hurt the ballasts??? I dont expect to be switching back and forth all that often. I dont think it will hurt because it will be such a brief interuption of power.
Anyways...check out the diagrams and let me know what you all think. I made two...just so its easier to see what it looks like with the low switch on vs. the high switch.
Low beams...
High beams...
If anyone has any better suggestions...please feel free. I can make this harness nice and neat and totally plug and play. So it will keep me from cutting wires or messing with anything inside.
Justin
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haha... ok...Im brainstorming on my own here.
I think Im just going to build a halogen H4 upgrade harness, like in my Jeep, but just have the projector shutter as an add-on. Then, Ill split the power wires for the ballasts so they will draw off the high beam connector and the low beam connector. That way, if I ever want to ditch the HID set up, I can just unplug it all, and install some 90/100 watt halogens...and they will just plug right in.
Here is the last schematic...this should work well. Some others might be intersted in it...if they ever see it.
Justin
I think Im just going to build a halogen H4 upgrade harness, like in my Jeep, but just have the projector shutter as an add-on. Then, Ill split the power wires for the ballasts so they will draw off the high beam connector and the low beam connector. That way, if I ever want to ditch the HID set up, I can just unplug it all, and install some 90/100 watt halogens...and they will just plug right in.
Here is the last schematic...this should work well. Some others might be intersted in it...if they ever see it.
Justin
