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I am installing the fog lights and the approprate relay. I am installing them so they go off when the high beams come on (California law). Obvious to use the high beam foot switch. Where is the best place to attach to it? My diagrams don't tell which color wire is to the low beam. Slider has been a great help but has connected his in a way I cannot use here. Has any one else had success California style. Also is there a proper color wire to use?
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There are probably several ways to do this. Another way to state it is that the fog lights can only be switched on when the low beams are on.
1- connect a new wire (18 gage) from the dip switch LOW beam, blue/red wire, to one side of a new DASH SWITCH.
2- Connect the other side of the new dash switch with a new wire (18 gage) to the coil of a new relay that has a CLOSED CONTACT WHEN ENERGIZED. (Called a normally open relay contact)
3- Connect the other side of the relay coil with a new wire (18 gage) to ground.
4- Connect a new 12 or 14 gage wire to a convenient 12v source, such as one of the brown wires at the voltage regulator, to one of the relay contacts.
5- Connect a new 12 or 14 gage wire from the other relay contact to both of the fog lamps.
6- Connect the other side of the fog lamps with a new wire to ground.
Any color wire that you wish is ok. You can carry through the existing colors if you wish. The relay contact should be capable of handling about 15 amps of resistive load.
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