A few people have asked me about the indicator setup on my headlights. Now I'm no electrician and unfortunately I didn't record a step by step process but hopefully this brief reference piece might help a few people who are interested. Please note this requires cutting open your headlights with a dremmel sealing them back up with silicone.
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The halo conversion has been done to death on here already so I won't go into it here. I simply followed one of the few guides on here, but for anyone who isn't so clued up on wiring up your drl's I used this http://drldimmer.weebly.com/ little gizmo which does much of the work for you. This will switch on your halo's or whatever you choose to use as your drl's when you switch on your ignition, and it will also dim them by 50% when you switch on your headlights at night (required for road legality). This is much safer than alternative wiring harnesses that operate according to the power drain on your battery.
Since my lights are sealed up and I don't fancy prising them open again I have tried to show what I can with some bits I have left over, which may or may not be useful to anybody. I spent quite a lot getting these over here from the States, there are cheaper alternatives but I can't vouch for their quality or reliability.
First off, when you actually look at what you're getting for your money it's all rather underwhelming. You will receive a white rubber sheath which is a lot longer and a lot thicker than I had expected, and will therefore need cutting down and shaping in order to fit into your headlights.
Inside this sheath are two inexpensive looking LED strips, one with white LEDs and the other with amber LEDs. The white LEDs are your constants, these are meant to be used as your DRLs but having already fitted my halo's I had no use for this feature so I didn't connect the feed for the white strip. Of course you could hook this up if you want to but for me it was too much.
It's all pretty straight forward from here. Your red wire goes to your live, black is your earth, if you want to hook the white LEDs up then the white wire can hook up to your halo's, and your yellow wire hooks up directly to your indicator bulb feed.
These then feed into your driver which in turn controls the LED strips. When you switch on your indicators or hazard lights, this will signal the driver to cut off the white strip and ignite the amber LEDs in a sweeping motion. With the LEDs inside the rubber sheath this emits a nice smooth beam of amber light.
As for the original indicator bulbs I pulled these back and tied them up behind the headlight as you never know when you might need them again. I also needed a resistor on each indicator to cancel out any bulb errors which I got from here http://www.horizonleds.co.uk/50w-canbus-led-resistor. Seal your headlights back up and thats your lot. For reference here are the instructions that came with which covers all of the above:
Sorry for such a basic guide but like I said, I'm not an electrician or anything, just passing on for those who have asked. Cheers everyone!
[youtube]FSLInun9VSw[/youtube]
The halo conversion has been done to death on here already so I won't go into it here. I simply followed one of the few guides on here, but for anyone who isn't so clued up on wiring up your drl's I used this http://drldimmer.weebly.com/ little gizmo which does much of the work for you. This will switch on your halo's or whatever you choose to use as your drl's when you switch on your ignition, and it will also dim them by 50% when you switch on your headlights at night (required for road legality). This is much safer than alternative wiring harnesses that operate according to the power drain on your battery.
Since my lights are sealed up and I don't fancy prising them open again I have tried to show what I can with some bits I have left over, which may or may not be useful to anybody. I spent quite a lot getting these over here from the States, there are cheaper alternatives but I can't vouch for their quality or reliability.
First off, when you actually look at what you're getting for your money it's all rather underwhelming. You will receive a white rubber sheath which is a lot longer and a lot thicker than I had expected, and will therefore need cutting down and shaping in order to fit into your headlights.
Inside this sheath are two inexpensive looking LED strips, one with white LEDs and the other with amber LEDs. The white LEDs are your constants, these are meant to be used as your DRLs but having already fitted my halo's I had no use for this feature so I didn't connect the feed for the white strip. Of course you could hook this up if you want to but for me it was too much.
It's all pretty straight forward from here. Your red wire goes to your live, black is your earth, if you want to hook the white LEDs up then the white wire can hook up to your halo's, and your yellow wire hooks up directly to your indicator bulb feed.
These then feed into your driver which in turn controls the LED strips. When you switch on your indicators or hazard lights, this will signal the driver to cut off the white strip and ignite the amber LEDs in a sweeping motion. With the LEDs inside the rubber sheath this emits a nice smooth beam of amber light.
As for the original indicator bulbs I pulled these back and tied them up behind the headlight as you never know when you might need them again. I also needed a resistor on each indicator to cancel out any bulb errors which I got from here http://www.horizonleds.co.uk/50w-canbus-led-resistor. Seal your headlights back up and thats your lot. For reference here are the instructions that came with which covers all of the above:
Sorry for such a basic guide but like I said, I'm not an electrician or anything, just passing on for those who have asked. Cheers everyone!
