2008 dodge ram 1500 HEADLIGHT ISSUE!
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I just looked at the "2008 Chassis Cab Lighting Capacity Per Unit" chart, and it says that the "maximum steady output" is 13 Amps for the high beam and low beam drivers. I have no idea how much current your bulbs draw, but if the combination of both bulbs attached to the right low beam driver output draw is close to 13 amps, you may cause it to burn out and have no low beams at all.
It also under "Additional Bulbs Allowed" says "None".
There is an alternative, connect the low beams to relays and have the right low beam driver control the relays.
It also under "Additional Bulbs Allowed" says "None".
There is an alternative, connect the low beams to relays and have the right low beam driver control the relays.
Thinking about install a relay fuse,,power one lead to the battery,,one lead to ground,,one lead to hot lowbeam wire on passenger side light and the other lead to the drivers lowbeam wire. Knowing relay will help compensate low voltage and balance the power so, Instead of jumping wire what could be done to be able to use my same SWITCH rather than using an additional?
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Thinking about install a relay fuse,,power one lead to the battery,,one lead to ground,,one lead to hot lowbeam wire on passenger side light and the other lead to the drivers lowbeam wire. Knowing relay will help compensate low voltage and balance the power so, Instead of jumping wire what could be done to be able to use my same SWITCH rather than using an additional?
Connect the right low beam driver output (leave it connected to the right low beam lamp) to one side of the relay coil and the other side of the coil to ground. Connect the battery to one of the relay open contacts and the left low beam to the other. When you turn low beams on at the headlight switch, they should both come on. You don't need an additional switch.
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Connect the right low beam driver output (leave it connected to the right low beam lamp) to one side of the relay coil and the other side of the coil to ground. Connect the battery to one of the relay open contacts and the left low beam to the other. When you turn low beams on at the headlight switch, they should both come on. You don't need an additional switch.
87 87a 86 85 30 could you run me through it so i can double chck myself
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also 86 directly from battery too or just from one of the light bulb sockets is fine?... other than that i will prevent from damaging the low beams period.. right by using the relay..
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that was intresting this evening wired up to above and my headlight wires burned up!..
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to much trouble then i found this and i wanted you to take a look considering i trusted your knowledge well i did and again burned up my bulb socket harness real ****ty man....
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let me get this right so with the drivers side low (left) beam having no power do i even need to tap into the passenger side where i do get power and use that to go into 87 or leave that alone due to using the relay?//////
also 86 directly from battery too or just from one of the light bulb sockets is fine?... other than that i will prevent from damaging the low beams period.. right by using the relay..
also 86 directly from battery too or just from one of the light bulb sockets is fine?... other than that i will prevent from damaging the low beams period.. right by using the relay..
This looks like you must have done it before you got my directions in the previous post (14).
You were supposed to connect the right low beam to pin 85 NOT 87,
and GROUND TO pin 86, NOT BATTERY.
Relay pin 30 was supposed to be connected to battery voltage.
The left low beam was supposed to be connected to pin 87.
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to much trouble then i found this and i wanted you to take a look considering i trusted your knowledge well i did and again burned up my bulb socket harness real ****ty man....Attachment 27116
This is, in fact, one way the relay can be wired.
Pins 85 and 86 are the connections to the coil that operates the relay.
One of them is grounded and power is applied to the other.
Pin 87 is the one that we are controlling the power to.
Pin 30 is the one that we are controlling the power from.
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