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88 Brumby dual headlights

Post by Wooster » Sun Oct 25, 2015 8:38 am

Guys, a simple question, hopefully a simple answer for this simple person. I desire to fit spot lights to the brumby, what colour wire do I need to tap into on the combo switch for high beam? Can't seem to locate on the diagram I have

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Post by Wooster » Sun Oct 25, 2015 9:32 am

Thanks for that Toonga, So the question remains which colour for high beam?

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Post by Silverbullet » Sun Oct 25, 2015 11:57 am

According to the above diagram, Red w/Black stripe. Although it's not very clear what the lighting relays in that diagram are doing :???: And the fuse box is an empty box which is no help. The Red w/black goes from the "combination switch" (indicator stalk/high beams) to one of the dual filament lights on each side, I'd say that was the high beam wire.

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Post by TOONGA » Sun Oct 25, 2015 5:03 pm

Wooster wrote:Thanks for that Toonga, So the question remains which colour for high beam?
I have a single headlight brumby can't help you there
Silverbullet wrote:According to the above diagram, Red w/Black stripe. Although it's not very clear what the lighting relays in that diagram are doing :???: And the fuse box is an empty box which is no help. The Red w/black goes from the "combination switch" (indicator stalk/high beams) to one of the dual filament lights on each side, I'd say that was the high beam wire.

Easy to test with a multimeter.
Yeah that was the only diagram I could find and yes unplug a light ground your earth on the multimeter and test all the plug connectors. once on low beam and once on high beam.

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Post by pedroj » Sun Oct 25, 2015 7:16 pm

Just eye balled my 91 brumby, quad headlights, drivers side outer headlamp, Red/Black is the wire you want to make the spot light relay come on when high beam is lit up. That is what mine is connected to and works very well.

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Post by steptoe » Mon Oct 26, 2015 7:53 am

It does not matter really, and then again - it does matter. What you need to do is use both wires to the inner high beam only light to switch the relay coz these are earth switched.

So long as you use a basic relay and not a diode protected relay relay works without polarity across 85 and 86 terminals. 85 is generally assigned to earth for anality :)

So, your relay does not use just short earth wire to the body - just tap into both wires, one to 85, other to 8 and relay will click on highbeam. Just be careful that relay does not delay off when switching down again, mine has sometimes for some reason in the past

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Post by Wooster » Mon Oct 26, 2015 12:37 pm

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Post by El_Freddo » Wed Oct 28, 2015 8:54 pm

L series is earth switched, all MYs positive switched yeah? I'm sure that's how it goes.

Also I'd be picking up the high beam wire behind te light as your relays will already be near the lights for minimal wire distance.

What sort of lights are you looking at putting up front?

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