L Series Spotties

alx92 · Post by **alx92** » Thu Jun 14, 2012 12:41 pm

G'day guys, spent yesterday wiring up the 100w spotties on Scoob so theyd operate on high beam with the legally required cut off switch etc, following the diagram provided with the wiring kit + dad's guiding wisdom. I found the wire in the combo switch which turns the high beam on connected everything up turned on the ignitionand the spotties turned on. Turns out the wiring for the high beam is hot on acc/ign, cold with the headlights on, then hot again for the high beam

Has anyone else had this problem, or is my wagon just reeallly reeeally special, and howd you work around it?

Much appreciated, Alex

spike · Post by **spike** » Thu Jun 14, 2012 12:56 pm

we found this sort of thing on the rally car, basically we were getting interference.

had no control over the spots for one rally, that was a serious downer.
We ended up putting 3 more relays in but im unsure where or why, all i know is it fixed the issues

purp · Post by **purp** » Thu Jun 14, 2012 3:44 pm

Early subarus (all subarus?) are wired so that the headlights are negitivly switched. There are a couple of good threads with wiring diagrams. Sorry I can't link to one as I'm posting from my phone, but I will later if no one else gets in first.

MTB92 · Post by **MTB92** » Thu Jun 14, 2012 4:21 pm

There was a post about 2 days ago where this was covered, gannon posted a riper wiring diagram. Or google 'earth switched relay wiring'. On these cars the connecton is earth switched as opposed to the normal positive switch which is the type of ddiagram yoy would have had.

spike · Post by **spike** » Thu Jun 14, 2012 4:29 pm

oh yeah forgot about that too

Also if you havent already look at upgrading your standard headlights, from the stories ive heard the original lights run power through the switch not a relay, so instead of getting 12V at the lights they get close to 9 or less with age.

Lots of threads on how to fix this too, possibly in GANNONs post

Gannon · Post by **Gannon** » Thu Jun 14, 2012 4:46 pm

Here ya go

alx92 · Post by **alx92** » Thu Jun 14, 2012 4:53 pm

hahah thanks for that guys, just found that diagram in one of the other threads, champion i can fix that up now