Alright i put some offroad lights on.. i have pic on another thread and all but today i put a switch on and a put in an inline fuse.. well with the switch turned on everything is fine.. but as soon as you cut the switch off the fuse blows.. the lights are 2 12v 130w.. and the fuse was a 30 amp blade style fuse..

 

are you running a relay??

 

i need to run a relay too?

 

YES run a relay

 

any light you add you NEED to run a relay if you bought these new they should have come with all that..wiring relay and a switch

 

if you don't run a relay your going to have to run a huge(like trucker fuse) which will get to hot and burn out your switch and could possibly cause a fire

 

alright looks like im runnin a relay..well thanks for the help guys

 

o and i stole the lights off my dad's jeep..

 

u need to steal the relay and harness if you can

 

whoever had the jeep before ran the lights into the headlights so its all on one.. so if i steal the relay.. there goes the head light relay

 

alright so i went and got a relay.. says 12 volt 30 amp.. i hooked it up or at least i assume i hooked it up.. correct me if i am wrong please.. it says power to lamps.. i hooked my positive light lead to it.. then i grounded the ground out.. and another says fused from battery i hooked up a wire with a inline 30 amp fuse goin to it.. and then it said switching means and i hooked up the the power from the switch to that one.. what did i forgot or do wrong?

 

OK, should be 4 wires off the relay:
*Positive from Bat
*Positive to Lights
*Ground to Chassis
*Positive from switch.
If you've got them all hooked up correctly, every time you flip the switch in the cab, you should hear the relay clicking (openning and closing). If you hear that, and the lights still dont come on, check your connections to the lights and that the lights are grounded correctly.

 

i dont hear that.. you think my switch blew before i got the relay and my fuses kept blowin?

 

I know this might sound stupid, but did you run a hot wire TO the switch, then to the relay? The switch needs power to send to the relay to trigger it. You'd be suprised how many people don't know that.

 

haha well crap thats what i didnt do.. i thought that the power from the relay would power the switch as well..

 

alright thanks a bunch everybody... a reg 1 hour project turned into a whole day project.. but i got it finished..heres a pic.[IMG][/IMG]

 

damn! That's bright! I was just reading your last previous post and then scrolled down a little, and BAM! I thought my g/f turned on a flashlight and was shining it on my monitor! lol

 

Looks great !!!!!

Now, where did you run the hot wire from fro the switch? Ideally, it should be on a "switched" circuit with a 5 amp fuse between the power source and the switch.

 

just ran a a wire from the bat. pos. to the switch.. and i think those lights might be kc daylighters or somethin cuz i was readin a jc whitney mag today and there was a pair of kc's in there like mine and they had 130 watt h3 bulb which is what i have.. so its pretty possible that thats what they are... yea they are pretty dang bright