wiring expert help needed....

Perfect! Glad someone has mad graphics skillz!

 

I want to get some FF75's into where the parking lights are now... just as soon as I can afford to get some. AutoAnything has em for $115 with free shipping...

 

i was thinking of doing the same with my lights, but the mounting behind the bumper will be tricky...so i may just use my FF75 fogs as reverse lights instead...

 

so let me get this straight....

i need to get a switch that will have 3 terminals on it? i'd be looking for the on-off-on setup...

the center terminal will be the wire coming from #86 on the relay, another terminal will be connected to a splice coming from the high beam wire, and the third will coming from my existing power, which i assume is the wire i have tapped into a wire i found that turns on when the key is on which allows my lights to be on when the truck is on...

so the rest of the wires i should be able to leave as is...and you're suggesting an additional fuse coming from the high beam splice to my switch? i think i have an extra inline 10A fuse, think that'll work or should i get a lower Ampere?

the red box with the curved line is the inline fuse you suggested?

does the new on-off-on switch have a terminal for a ground? or does the wire going to the relay which is connected to a ground through #85 count?

 

This is actually a pretty clever idea and maybe a bit simplier than the method I described. You'd need a new switch and it would be a 3 position on/off/on switch. There is only one fuse in that diagram and it's between the constant power and the relay. The high beam tap is just acting as a switch for the relay and wouldn't actually be powering the lights so you don't need an inline fuse on that wire. The wiring from your relay to the lights can remain as-is. You'd have to look at the terminals on the switch you purchase to see if it has a location for a ground but it may not be required. There should be a description of the switch poles on the back of the box.

 

The only need for a ground on the switch would be if it is illuminated. That makes the light in the switch lite up.

 

awesome...thanks for the help everybody...project begins this afternoon

 

Success! All it took was a wire from the high beams to my new on-off-on switch...thanks for the tips...next lighting mod will be to hook up some reverse lights in the same manner

 

all of the previous wiring was already set up where my hellas would go on at the flip of a switch...with the help of the guys in this thread, some extra wire and a new on-off-on switch it is now set up where one position turns the lights on like previously installed, the the other on position has it set to turn the hellas on when my high beams are on....

not the best pics but here's some pics...

tapped into the high beam wire found in this cluster fuck...


ran the new wire through the hole i made for the previously ran wire from the relay...


and got it all going to this simple on-off-on switch


thanks for all the help, it was a simple change in the end...

 

new lighting setup output...

no light


hellas only


hellas and 6000k HID low beams


hellas, HID lows and PIAAs


hellas and highs


hellas, highs and PIAAs



cell phone doesn't do the light output justice and eventually i'll get some real life output photos not what it looks like against a small shed...