[bone]

ok, so looking on the forum there looks to be a little bit of a knack to wiring up spotties in zooks. i got a jimny, and a set of ipf 800xs lights.

its got a generic wiring diagram...




will this give me light?




also, its got this bit... note "refer to instructions before securing this wire"




but i cant find any reference to it in the actual wiring instructions.
what is this for??



and possibly the stupidest question, but easiest and most secure method of mounting the relays and fuse boxes to the body? (dont want them vibrating loose)

thanks in advance, hope im not asking to many already answered questions. just couldnt find anything immidatedly in the search.

thanks crew!!

[royce]

hook the yellow to 1 Vertical terminal on the haedlight, hook that earth they mention to the other

if the dash light lights up funny reverse them

[Scrawny]

That wire is an earth. I assume you ground it for positive switching. Just screw the relay some where close to the battery, or wherever the wiring length allows

[lordviper556]

dont forget the jimnys are negitive switched

[BAZZOOK]

this belongs to someone on here. forget who.

[atari4x4]

want33s wrote:

And for those who don't read wiring diagrams so well, try this:

On the rear of the driver's side headlight locate the red wire with silver bands around it,

if you have a 12V electrical tester check that this wire is positive when the headlights are on and it then peculiarly goes

to negative when highbeam is on.

Clip a Scotchblock onto this wire with a piece of wire in it long enough to reach back to where you are going to

locate the relay, and attach this wire to terminal number 85.

This will be the "trigger" for the relay, the relay will always have a positive feed to the normal trigger,

and live going to the "switch" of the relay for the auxiliary spots,

so the relay will click closed only when the earth terminal gets a negative feed

(as it will normally be positive...).


Take a wire off the battery's live terminal and with an inline fuse holder connect it to terminals 86 and 87,

these are the normal trigger and the input terminal of the relays switch.

Connect a wire from terminal 30 - the switched output of the relay - and connect this to the positive wire of your spotlights

, the spotlights should also be earthed to either the vehicles body or chassis, or an existing earth point

(probably the best idea I've found).

Hmm, and that's it... when you put your headlights on the wire coming from the Scothchblock attached to the red wire

with silver bands will be positive, so the relay will not click closed.

However when you "flash" your headlights or switch to mainbeam,

that red wire with the silver bands will drop from positive to negative, then, as the relay now has an earth it

will click closed and switch the positive feed to the spotlights on...

and your spots will come on so you can flash other roadusers, or when you're offroad in the dark, etc...

Ok?

stolen from here.
http://auszookers.com/index.php?name=Fo ... ght=wiring

[Benz]

put a set of ipf 800xs's on my jimny.
i just followed the instruction...

spotties will turn on and off with no lights on at all...
when you turn your low beams on the spotties turn off
and when you switch it to high beam they come back on again.

just looked at mine and i earthed the wire your talking about =]

[alien]

[zukenutter]

[4x4ish]

for the relay use the high beam wire, the wires going into the back of the car lights, as the earth [85]; and the earth, at the back of the car lights, wire as trigger on [86]. [87] goes to the spotties and [30] gets the + current from the battery.

you need a toggle switch in there to somewhere.