wiring up angel eyes

[steve88]

What do I do with the 4 wires ? 2 black and 2 red ?

can anyone help me out here?

[Bludger]

hey guys,

ive fitted projectors to my ek civic and yes u gotta rewire your parks, i got a double contact socket for my signals for my park lights -5w for park 20w-ish for signals.
decided against angel eyes as ive heard they burn out and all that. Just got reflector rings and they seem fine. looks great.

what i want to know is for a 4 bulb setup, how do i get the wires set up for high beam turn on without the low beam bulb turning off - when the high beam switch is triggered to permanent on - not just temp (ie when you pull the lights towards you it clicks). even though i dont really use the highs that much anyways it still bugs me a little..

use a relays

thats what i've been saying all along in this thread

[Bludger]

What do I do with the 4 wires ? 2 black and 2 red ?

hook them up

[steve88]

on passenger side, the parker has 1 red 1 black, i hooked up the passenger side angel eyes parker and it works perfectly on dimmers/low beam/high beam

on drivers side, parker has 2 red 1 black, i hooked up drivers side angel eyes parker with the 2 reds on the car twisted together and black on its own on the black with the angel eyes. now dimmers works fine, but high beam/low beam is switched!!! when on high beam the passenger side is on high beam (correct) and drivers side is on low beam

[steve88]

here is some clarification

passenger side:


works perfectly



[drivers side]
this is the difference between passenger side and drivers side, parker has 3 cords coming out, i wired it up same anyway but low beam/high beam is swapped!!

[Bludger]

why don't you use a multimeter or 12v tester light and test what wires give an output when each switch is turned on (parker, low beam, high beam)

try hooking up the right side with one red wire only, see what happens and then try the other red wire and see what happens

these sort of problems require a trial and error type approach to fix

very hard to diagnose your problem over the net

[steve88]

nevermind solved it lol, you know the harness that attaches to each globe? it was swapped on the drivers side!! stupid me.

i still find it strange there is 3 wires for parkers on drivers side and only 2 on passenger, doesn';t matter i guess

curiously, you cant have low or high beam on with parkers can you? it'd look much more wicked if parkers where always on

[Bludger]

nevermind solved it lol, you know the harness that attaches to each globe? it was swapped on the drivers side!! stupid me.

i still find it strange there is 3 wires for parkers on drivers side and only 2 on passenger, doesn';t matter i guess

curiously, you cant have low or high beam on with parkers can you? it'd look much more wicked if parkers where always on

you can,

USE RELAYS!!!!!!!!!

[steve88]

the fact that i dont know what a relay is probably a good idea that i dont use one

perhaps hand it over to my electrical engineer of a brother or an auto electrician for that relay bit =D

[Bludger]

http://www.narva.com.au/Switches_Relays_1.html

use this page as a starting reference

this is good too

http://www.autoshop101.com/forms/hweb2.pdf

[steve88]

ill read it while at work, i got some electrical experience but mainly wiring up my sound system, thx

[Bludger]

basically, you tap the wires so that when the low beam or high beam lights go on, you still got other lights that you want on and make them stay on

sorry, hard to describe

eg, oem = 2 bulb design low beam & high beam in one

when high beam goes on, low beam goes off.....

now you want to use your 4 bulb angel eyes or whatever rice shit you bought and make it work the way you want it, which is to have all 4 bulbs on when you turn on the high beam.

use a relay to tap into the high beam wires as a signal, then get the relay to power the low beams when the high beams are on