Question for NMILNE Re: UFO headlight wiring

[firebladejr]

Hi,

I 'm trying to hook up my new UFO headlight (it's the same one as in NMILNE's gallery). I took the four wires out of the original headlight ie. one white pair and one yellow pair. Which combination do I have to join to get one light on low beam, and both lights on high beam?

So far I can only get one light to work, high beam does nothing.

[Wobbly]

I've got mine set up so that they are both OFF when in low-beam and both ON when in high beam. If you want to have it toggle one or both then you'll need to run a relay of sorts to split the inputs. Dicky is probably the one who can work that bit out in more detail, but for me they're either off or on flat out. And I run 2 50watt lights as well :D

[Muzzard]

I split the system on the WRF and use a 36 degree 50 watt in the low beam and a 10 degree 50 watt in the high beam, only one on at a time...
Take the power wire from the low beam and fit to the globe, take the power from high beam and attach to other globe, run a common earth...
Should switch between the 2 then...
Still gives me enough light, even out here with no street lighting...

[firebladejr]

I split the system on the WRF and use a 36 degree 50 watt in the low beam and a 10 degree 50 watt in the high beam, only one on at a time...
Take the power wire from the low beam and fit to the globe, take the power from high beam and attach to other globe, run a common earth...
Should switch between the 2 then...
Still gives me enough light, even out here with no street lighting...

Excellent, that's exactly what I want.. Could my problem simply be that I'm not running a common earth?

[dicky]

Excellent, that's exactly what I want.. Could my problem simply be that I'm not running a common earth?

Most likley.
I haven't seen the switch on the DRZ but what Muzz says makes sense.

dicky.

[Muzzard]

Its as simple really as powering one side of the globes and earthing the other..
So it shouldnt matter regards the common earth I think..

[firebladejr]

Its as simple really as powering one side of the globes and earthing the other..
So it shouldnt matter regards the common earth I think..

Well that's how I hooked it up last night.
Each light has two wires (+ & -).
The original headlight had two sets of wires going to it (Yellow +/- and White +/-).

I connected one light to the yellow set, and the other light to the white set and I get nothing.

When I cross them, ie. run the wires from one light to a yellow + and white -, then I get one light working. I can't seem to get both working from any other combination.

[dicky]

Is your original headlight globe a three pin jobbie?
If so, one of those pins is the common for both Hi and Lo and it should have two of the four original wires connected to it.
To get both lamps on together you need to wire the Lo so that it bypasses the light switch (ie, directly to battery via key switch) and the Hi stays as normal.
You don't really want to do this with the normal headlight as it can overheat the globe, but with two seperate halogen spots it is OK.

and where is nmilne when you need him?

dicky.

[Wobbly]

Hey I already replied, sir dickens :lol:

The headlight on the DRZ is a 3 prong type. From memory the horizonal one is the earth (run that to a common earth on both globes) and the verticle ones (parallel to each other) are the high and low. I just wired up the high to both globes so they both go on flat out when the hi beam is on and nothing on low beam. But as dicky says if you want a low/high setup, use a 30w wide spread beam like muzz says and wire that into a fixed 12v wire in the loom (not attached to the hi/low switch) and plumb the high circuit into a narrow beam (10-15 deg) 50watt jobbie, again sharing the ground between both...

[jakestein]

I feel like Ralph Wiggum :(

[Muzzard]

Shutup Ralph.... :lol: