lights! woo
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lights! woo
Had 55w incandescent bulbs in my auxs. Well yesterday I decided to splurge and go the white xenon route..again 55w....well they worked for 2 nights but tonight it blew the fuse (its run off the factory fog lamp lines fuses and relays and all).
fuse came 20amp stock and i bumped it up to 25amp for the lights. its worked for months on the old lamps but the new one blew 3 tonight. is it safe to bump up to 30amp? dont wanna fry the line or worse..my truck. nothing is shorting out to my knowledge. and ive looked at all the connections and im good to go. so whats the deal?
fuse came 20amp stock and i bumped it up to 25amp for the lights. its worked for months on the old lamps but the new one blew 3 tonight. is it safe to bump up to 30amp? dont wanna fry the line or worse..my truck. nothing is shorting out to my knowledge. and ive looked at all the connections and im good to go. so whats the deal?
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Yeah that's what I'm figuring. Most people think they can just remove the stock ones and put in something different. The stock wiring cant handle the increased draw. The wires only have to be heated up a few times before they melt or short out. The fuse keeps blowing because its sensing it. To fix it you would either need to replace the wiring from the stock relay all the way to the lights. Or put in a relay at the lights them selves that gets you power direct from a larger gauge wire that you run yourself. If you don't change out to larger size wire your just going to keep burning fuses and start melting wire until you burn up most likely the truck.
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ah thats it, i didnt know what wattage the stock fogs were. They got ripped off the second week I owned the truck and just assumed they were just as strong as you 45w/65w headlights. So I though 55w was perfect. now I know.
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Yeah that's what I'm figuring. Most people think they can just remove the stock ones and put in something different. The stock wiring cant handle the increased draw. The wires only have to be heated up a few times before they melt or short out. The fuse keeps blowing because its sensing it. To fix it you would either need to replace the wiring from the stock relay all the way to the lights. Or put in a relay at the lights them selves that gets you power direct from a larger gauge wire that you run yourself. If you don't change out to larger size wire your just going to keep burning fuses and start melting wire until you burn up most likely the truck.
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I got away with running a pair of 55w KC's on the stock circuit for a little over a month, l only turned them on a few dozen times so it was probably only a little over an hour or two of run time. I noticed the wires were getting hot so I decided to put a relay in at the lights. I used the factory switch and wiring and the existing relay - which is just there because I didn't take it out - to run the new relay then I ran a power line off of a terminal block I installed previously that is fed off the battery. I could have run the wiring all the way to the switch but mine wasn't bad so I just took the shorter route... This way I can take mine off and put the stock ones back in place if I ever get rid of the truck... Or so the plan goes...
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+1 on running a new relay, fuse & wiring for the new lights.
The OEM wiring is only like 18ga or something tiny... I'd suggest 14ga for up to 100w lights... maybe even 12ga if the mood hit me.
You'll want to use a 30/40 amp relay and probably a 15a to 20a fuse, whatever came with the lights... I don't recommend increasing the fuse, that's asking for a fire
If you're looking to use the OEM fog switch to run the lights, I make a conversion kit for oem switches to control aftermarket or oem lights that bypasses all the oem wiring.
The OEM wiring is only like 18ga or something tiny... I'd suggest 14ga for up to 100w lights... maybe even 12ga if the mood hit me.
You'll want to use a 30/40 amp relay and probably a 15a to 20a fuse, whatever came with the lights... I don't recommend increasing the fuse, that's asking for a fire
If you're looking to use the OEM fog switch to run the lights, I make a conversion kit for oem switches to control aftermarket or oem lights that bypasses all the oem wiring.
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