DIY: DRL's on with low beams

[inyong1988]

too much work for me...but i like the idea tho.

[RiceBowL54]

I looked around for the prices at Auto Zone and O'rellys

Materials:
crimpers/wire cutters - already have
male and female connectors - $3 a box
fuse - $3 a box
switch - $4 for a nice discrete looking one
1.2 Ohm resister - I couldn't find, they told me to go to Radio Shack, which I was too tired to go.


Just one question though
electrical wire - What gage am I suppose to use?


I really wanted to do it last night, but then I started thinking about all the poking and prodding and fishing I gotta do to run the wires around... I kinda gave up, haha.



*edit.. oops, i meant 1.2 ohm resister

[EntropyXIII]

^ i think i used 12 gauge but im not sure. pretty much just get the same size wire that the high beams use and youll be good. also, dont go to radioshack. all they have are little dink resistors that will crack themselves apart. if you go to oriellys again and tell them you need a resistor to knock down voltage from the battery and tell them to look in their big catalog they have it should be in there. they told me first that they didnt have them then i went in again and told a different person what i needed and they gave me this one. it didnt crack apart like the radioshack one did and its just alot beefier....also its a 1.2 ohm resistor 1.5 might make the lights too dim

[RiceBowL54]

Mmm, thanks, i'll try that tmrw then.

[EntropyXIII]

alright well let me know what happens. if you cant find it again then i could stop by my oriellys and get yall a part # or something

[RiceBowL54]

LOL... i read "yall" and I was thinking, man, you gotta be from Texas.

So I just noticed you're from Katy... I'm from Sugar Land, haha. I try not to say "yall" too much, haha.


Oh, and I asked this before: How would I wire it so I can have DRL at full power (high beam). I know I can do this by turning on the lights then highbeam, but I wanna try highbeam without lowbeam.

[EntropyXIII]

im sure you can do that by just not putting in the resistor but im not sure if that will mess up your lights by getting too much power or anything


and lol yeah im texan haha

[06blaksi]

nice write up...repped.....although, those of you with fogs...it's illegal to run with more than 4 lights on for the front

[illusionstwice]

Repped....gotta be honest. Way to lazy to f with the wires...cuz electrical aint my thing. . . BUt id love to do this. If u wanna make a trip to NJ let me know

[FG geek]

anyone ele try this yet?

[EntropyXIII]

its actually not that hard to do just as long as you take your time and keep your patience... and thanx all for the +rep keep em coming

[icrashed]

So... had the day off today and said... ehh might as well try this.... everything is all dandy all the connections are made the right way and when i turn it all on, all i see are the main feed wire from the battery to the switch start to melt itself and smoke.... i am pretty sure this happen because i used some shitty 18 awg wire i had laying around the house... looks like i am gonna buy some other wire tomorrow and redo everything... should be easier the second time around.

[SiRyan]

Justin let me know when u get this done, so you can help me out

[Alphi]

Nice. Might be doing this when I have time! Thanks. Have any more pics in different angles?

[EntropyXIII]

Originally Posted by icrashed

So... had the day off today and said... ehh might as well try this.... everything is all dandy all the connections are made the right way and when i turn it all on, all i see are the main feed wire from the battery to the switch start to melt itself and smoke.... i am pretty sure this happen because i used some shitty 18 awg wire i had laying around the house... looks like i am gonna buy some other wire tomorrow and redo everything... should be easier the second time around.

yeah im pretty sure 18awg is WAY too thin for this. and since youre most likely going to have them on for somewhat long periods of time, youre gonna want to use pretty decent gauge wire. sorry these are the only pics i have right now and i dont really have any time to take pics anymore since classes started up again. im sure whenever more people do this you'll see more pics up here...hopefully

[Alphi]

So I attempted to try this today and failed so I gave up and started to get lazy. I did everything that was mentioned and the only thing I ended up doing was blowing a fuse in the interior fuse box.

[07mugencivic]

thats looks alright...maybe try it on sunday

[EntropyXIII]

Originally Posted by Alphi

So I attempted to try this today and failed so I gave up and started to get lazy. I did everything that was mentioned and the only thing I ended up doing was blowing a fuse in the interior fuse box.

why an interior fuse? youre supposed to use a seperate fuse

[Alphi]

Originally Posted by EntropyXIII

why an interior fuse? youre supposed to use a seperate fuse

I did.

I used a 30 AMP LED switch and used a 30A fuse with 12 gauge wires. It was hard to find a resistor anywhere else so I went to RadioShack and tried a wirewound 1.0 ohm block resistor because that was the closest I could find. I did exactly like you mentioned and once I tapped into the white wire on the right headlight high beam harness, tested it and it blew the fuse inside instead. The resistor did start to get warm as you mentioned so I knew for a fact there was circuit going through but the LED light on the switch didn't seem to light up. I even tried putting a 7.5 fuse in there and got nothing. Grounded it and tried thinking why it wasn't working then just gave up. I had other plans for the day and it was too hot to be working outside.

[rcrx]

Looks good