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Headlight wiring help please.

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Old Jan 29, 2011 | 02:28 PM
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1998 Ram 1500.
Will the factory headlight wiring be able to take the draw of a 90 / 130 watt headlight bulb ?
 
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Old Jan 29, 2011 | 03:25 PM
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I wouldn't recommend it. They're kinda marginal with the stock lamps.

The hot ticket is to use some switching relays so that the factory circuit only powers the relay coils.
 
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Old Jan 29, 2011 | 06:43 PM
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This is for snow plow lights.
The ones on the snow plow just aren't bright enough for what I want.
The snow plow wire harness ( I installed ) with light adapters.
When you turn the plow lights on, the trucks lights go out.
I bought some 90 / 130 watt bulbs for the plow lights, but they still get the power from the factory harness and I thought the wire looked a little small for those bulbs.
I was hoping they would be big enough so I could continue to use the factory light switch as well as the factory high / low beam switch.

I ended up running new legs to the plow lights and put in two toggle switches.
I ran a fused 14 gauge wire to each light ( one feed for each light ).
One toggle switch for on/off and the other for high/low beam.
Now I don't have to worry about melting down the factory harness.
I hid the on/off switch so you can not see it and the high/low I put up by the ignition key as high as I could.
It doesn't look to bad.
 
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