New spots, disater

[Philious]

hey all
I have made a bo bo with my spot lights, I wired them into the the full beam without a fuse and relay staraight to neg on the battery and full beam wire they worked fine for a few hours then they went out as well as the light they were wire up to, have disconnected them but still the light I wired them into still won`t come on any ideas guys

[simplyshaker]

Must be the fuse (the original one for the headlights)

Unless you have blown all the bulbs !!!!

I doubt the wires will have suffered.

[griffj]

i would go with fuse for the main beam circuit.

or, you have fried the switch on the coloum, of fried the wiring, but most likely the fuse afterall you added an extra 110 Watts to the circuit!

[Philious]

I`ve checked the bulb in the other headlight and works, I`m getting the main beam lights(both) its only when I switch to full beam the one I attached the spots to goes off
is the fuse for the full beam under the steering wheel? is there a seperate fuse for each headlamp? and which fuse is it?
thanks for the help guys

[simplyshaker]

could you have bypassed the headlight when you wired up your spot lights, and now you have taken them off, there is no power getting to the bulb ?

[Philious]

Yeah that had crossed my mind today, I used a scotch block to break into the full beam wire and thought that the wire might of severed I can`t check it until the weekend but will give it a try
any thoughts on the fuses?

[tranny mhan]

Putting a straight feed to the spots from the high beam circuit puts an awful lot of strain on the HB circuit..Much better to have a relay wired into the HB circuit drawing its power direct from the battery via a 25amp fuse instead of drawing power direct from the HB circuit.

[Philious]

yes I know
I remember back in the day with my MK2 Escort and spotlights all over it wired in as I had done
I do now have the relay and inline fuse fuse ready to go on......lesson learned there.

[Steve B]

i would go with fuse for the main beam circuit.

or, you have fried the switch on the coloum, of fried the wiring, but most likely the fuse afterall you added an extra 110 Watts to the circuit!

I did try to take notice of this post but I keep looking at the avatar, sorry!