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#40963 Mark7 (Moderator) Look for me on MSN chat if you want. Moderator Posts: 2051 Re:My OWN Light bar wiring problem 4 Years, 8 Months ago   pic one   Logged       The administrator has disabled public write access. #40964 Mark7 (Moderator) Look for me on MSN chat if you want. Moderator Posts: 2051 Re:My OWN Light bar wiring problem 4 Years, 8 Months ago   pic two   Logged       The administrator has disabled public write access. #40966 Flashback (Moderator) Just the facts, Ma'am.. Moderator Posts: 9221 Re:Light bar wiring problem 4 Years, 8 Months ago   Huh? sorry mark, I just realized there was a previous page.. saw the pics and wondered what the heck is this about..   Logged     Last Edit: 2007/09/13 16:06 By Flashback.     The administrator has disabled public write access. #40969 Mark7 (Moderator) Look for me on MSN chat if you want. Moderator Posts: 2051 Re:Light bar wiring problem 4 Years, 8 Months ago   Guess I wasn't clear. The lights I have are grounded through the lights themselves, so I need to connect a hot wire to the them. Seems to me there should be one in the headlight bucket that I can splice into to get power to the lights. I thought the pics would show up larger and now realize that they're fairly useless posted here since they show up so small. Other posts have indicated that a blue light wire should be used, but I can not find one in my headlight that fits that description. I just need to know which wire I can get power from to make the lights work. Thanks, M   Logged       The administrator has disabled public write access. #40970 Flashback (Moderator) Just the facts, Ma'am.. Moderator Posts: 9221 Re:Light bar wiring problem 4 Years, 8 Months ago   Well maybe I can help ya, first off, Do you have a test light or a multi meter? They come in handy..if not, all you need is a test light, turn the ignition on and then touch your positive lead to the headlight wire until you find the positve lead . If you splice into the wire going to the headlight bulb you should have power anytime your headlight is on..provided you have a separate switch for the passing lamps.. does that make sense? not sure?   Logged       The administrator has disabled public write access. #40973 Lakecharles (User) Jeremiah 29:11 and Semper Fi! Gold Boarder Posts: 745 Re:Light bar wiring problem 4 Years, 8 Months ago   I gave up trying to wire to the headlight - just tapped into the running light wire - it's the only solid blue wire in the bucket and it plugs into the two turn signal blue wires. I simply used the quick splice that came with the Cobra lights. The advantage is that I have the switch to use if I want them off; otherwise I can leave them on at all times or turn them off anytime that I want. I don't know when it might be, but I might want the opportunity to have them off sometime and this way I can do that. If they were plugged into the headlight I would be limited at times. Just my 2 cents   Logged       The administrator has disabled public write access. #40975 Mark7 (Moderator) Look for me on MSN chat if you want. Moderator Posts: 2051 Re:Light bar wiring problem 4 Years, 8 Months ago   I have 3 wires going into the headlight plug: One black (which I assume is ground), one green with tan dots, and one yellow with tan dots. Am I correct that the other two wires will be the hot wire for the high and low beams? If that is the case then if I splice into the green/tan wire and it's the high beam hot wire, then will the passing lamps only work when the high beams are on? That will mean that when the low beams are on, the passing lamps will be off. Am I correct on this? If I am correct that won't work for me since I want the passing lamps on all the time. I have a switch on the passing light housing to turn them off manually if needed.   Logged       The administrator has disabled public write access. #40976 Flashback (Moderator) Just the facts, Ma'am.. Moderator Posts: 9221 Re:Light bar wiring problem 4 Years, 8 Months ago   That even makes more sense, LC, I didn't know if he had a running light connection, just wanted to see if he could find something that was hot when the ignition was on..   Logged       The administrator has disabled public write access. #40979 Mark7 (Moderator) Look for me on MSN chat if you want. Moderator Posts: 2051 Re:Light bar wiring problem 4 Years, 8 Months ago   LC I think you may have just resolved this for me. I think I remember you saying that's how you have yours wired, and it's working for you. I'll give that a shot. I too have a small switch (mounted on the side of the passing light bucket) to shut the lights off if needed. I think another poster somewhere said that he killed his passing lights if he was in slow moving, bumper-to-bumper type of traffic. Not sure if it was to keep from annoying whoever he might be following or what, but it sounds like a good practice anyway. Thanks again, M   Logged     Last Edit: 2007/09/13 16:35 By Mark7.     The administrator has disabled public write access. #41039 Mark7 (Moderator) Look for me on MSN chat if you want. Moderator Posts: 2051 Re:Light bar wiring problem SOLVED 4 Years, 8 Months ago   Many thanks to everyone who weighed in on this. Esp. LC who gave me the winning combo to have this install turn out right.   Logged       The administrator has disabled public write access.

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