High Beam Wires
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Burning Brakes
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High Beam Wires
Hello All,
My '69 has 4 wires coming out of the foot switch. The two greens should go to the high beams. The blue has a tendency to be the indicator light and the brown should be the power from the low beams. Can anyone confirm or deny this?
-Adam
My '69 has 4 wires coming out of the foot switch. The two greens should go to the high beams. The blue has a tendency to be the indicator light and the brown should be the power from the low beams. Can anyone confirm or deny this?
-Adam
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One of the greens goes to the high beams and one goes to high beam indicator
The tan is low beam
The blue feeds the dimmer from the headlight switch
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Burning Brakes
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The brown wire has to get +12V from the low beam circuit. Nothing else would make any sense. I really don't understand what the dimmer has to do with the high beams. The only dimmer I know about is for the gauge lights. Can you explain this for me?
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Dimmer might be an old fart thing. Years ago we "dimmed" our lights when we saw other lights coming down the road (some cars had automatic dimmers....really they did) so as to not blind the oncoming driver , that doesn't seem to be as common nowadays. (especially when I'm down in Florida,all the grayhairs just leave their brights on all the time)"Next time" I will try to stay with your terminology (foot switch)from your OP.
GOOD LUCK.....
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I actually feel more educated saying dimmer switch. I have the blue wire going to the tan wire and the dimmer switch is powered off of a 'bus' that goes to the alternator. It is a thing of beauty. I can use all 4 Cibie headlights now. Thanks a bunch!
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The dimmer powers the relay and the current draw of the high beams doesn't flow though the HL switch nor the dimmer switch.
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He said bus , I didn't take that as a relay but rather just a connection to the red on the back of the alt. Could be wrong though.
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And I think his bus goes to a relay - I think.
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Hey fellas; I'm happy to clear this up. I have one additional +12V and one additional ground wire going to my alternator. I've made buses with screws on the side of my engine compartment. All of my new grounds and power wires go to these buses. My headlight switch now sends 200 mA to a Hella headlight relay which moves and completes a circuit. I have a new power wire going from a bus to the old 'dimmer' switch, which is now just a high beam switch. It activates another relay for my high beams. I have Cibie CSR headlights and that means two high beams and two low beams. I do technically have six filaments because of my city driving lights. I am very excited about this setup and grateful for your patience in teaching me. I used a piezo-electric buzzer as my continuity tester and everything you guys said was right on the money.
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6 filaments lit ? Never tried that,will the sealed beam take it , cause in the stock setup only 4 filaments , 1 in each bulb is lit on high ? I would have thought lighting both filaments in the low beam with them so close to each other might create too much heat and cause them to burn out.
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Hey fellas; I'm happy to clear this up. I have one additional +12V and one additional ground wire going to my alternator. I've made buses with screws on the side of my engine compartment. All of my new grounds and power wires go to these buses. My headlight switch now sends 200 mA to a Hella headlight relay which moves and completes a circuit. I have a new power wire going from a bus to the old 'dimmer' switch, which is now just a high beam switch. It activates another relay for my high beams. I have Cibie CSR headlights and that means two high beams and two low beams. I do technically have six filaments because of my city driving lights. I am very excited about this setup and grateful for your patience in teaching me. I used a piezo-electric buzzer as my continuity tester and everything you guys said was right on the money.
So as I understand it... your headlight switch just fires off the low beams, and the foot switch just fires off the high beams - both via relay?
Does that mean you can turn on the high beams with the foot switch when the headlight switch is off? Are they that independant?
Also - Why do you have 6 and not 8 filiments running when both lights are on?
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Dood.. I've a '68 since '78 and I might yet learn something here from you...
So as I understand it... your headlight switch just fires off the low beams, and the foot switch just fires off the high beams - both via relay?
Does that mean you can turn on the high beams with the foot switch when the headlight switch is off? Are they that independant?
Also - Why do you have 6 and not 8 filiments running when both lights are on?
So as I understand it... your headlight switch just fires off the low beams, and the foot switch just fires off the high beams - both via relay?
Does that mean you can turn on the high beams with the foot switch when the headlight switch is off? Are they that independant?
Also - Why do you have 6 and not 8 filiments running when both lights are on?
Also, the bozo previous owner ran all the wires and hoses above the radiator. Today, I saw the detent to the side of it. Where did you run your hoses and wires? Should I move all of them..?
