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Old May 31, 2012 | 09:41 AM
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Dual Halo Projector Help

Firstly, please refrain from any flaming, I want to make these work. Anyways, I'm in the process of installing the driver's side dual halo projectors and I tested it out and now I have no headlights. The LED halo rings work for low beams and go off when I turn on my high's which is ok. My problem is I have no low or high beam headlights! My only guess is the fault is at the plug? I'm gonna go ahead and do the passenger side and see what results I get if its a faulty plug or a wiring problem. I cannot guess why this would be problematic since its just the two wires (power and ground) and then the three plug lead for the headlights. Any help is much appreciated!

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Old May 31, 2012 | 12:38 PM
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The passenger side works fine now but the driver low and high beams do not work. I jumped over the new connector to the old one and it does not work and now the highbeam indicator will not turn on. This has become a clown show with this drivers side...
 
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Old May 31, 2012 | 12:56 PM
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Fuse or bulb blown? Check feeds going to lights for power. Plug in light and remove bulb socket & check w/ a test light to be sure power is going thru light harness.
 
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Old May 31, 2012 | 11:38 PM
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I 2nd Brain... start with testing both plugs, and trace back as far as you can on driver's side plug....

Did that head light work with hi and low with the old head lights?
 
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Old Jun 1, 2012 | 08:04 AM
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Are you sure you don't have a bad headlight? They're probably MiC and sold on eBay...
 
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Old Jun 1, 2012 | 08:55 AM
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Did you run a relay in the circuits or just the headlight harness straight into the ballast?
 
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Old Jun 2, 2012 | 09:53 PM
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Sorry, I've been away. Well I discover my problem was I had an entire Meyer wiring harness for a plow that ran wires everywhere from each side and multiple wires were corroded and just poorly spliced together. The problem I'm at now is I have a black plus with a red center that's 3-pronged with a black wire, a red/black wire, and green/black wire. The plug now plugs into nothing once I rid of the Meyer harness and now I have no headlight socket because that was on the harness too.

Long story short, does anyone have a picture or video of the inside wiring behind the headlight that I can view? I need a model to follow to figure out what to do with this plug to get to the point where I can have my actual headlight socket. The black plug I have determined has a power,ground, and I do not know what the green/black wire is.
 
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Old Jun 2, 2012 | 10:33 PM
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Firstly, please refrain from any flaming...
I was going to flame you, but I decided not to, because you posted this.
 
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Old Jun 2, 2012 | 10:40 PM
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Haha I knew there would be hate to start. Once I can get this headlight wiring squared away, I'll post pics of the new headlights on the truck. I actually think this set will look nice since I have a black billet grill and repainted my headlight trim black as well. But damn, this headlight situation is getting the best of me.
 
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Old Jun 2, 2012 | 11:03 PM
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I was just kidding...
 
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Old Jun 2, 2012 | 11:20 PM
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Originally Posted by JustDriveTwo
Long story short, does anyone have a picture or video of the inside wiring behind the headlight that I can view? I need a model to follow to figure out what to do with this plug to get to the point where I can have my actual headlight socket. The black plug I have determined has a power,ground, and I do not know what the green/black wire is.

Don't know if this will help you out or not..........................................





 
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Old Jun 2, 2012 | 11:21 PM
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It's all good man, I'm just use to people losing their marbles over projector headlights on an obs truck. Problem is most people use the ugly chrome one's instead of the black style like I purchased.
 
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Old Jun 2, 2012 | 11:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Seabiscuit-P3
Don't know if this will help you out or not..........................................





Awesome sir, thank you so much!
Now my question is, do particular wires distinguish between low and high beam? That's the part I can not figure out. I may just cut off the old black plug and wire to the new hightemp headlamp sockets I purchased and plug directly into my projectors. I'm just not sure however where the wiring distinguishes when low and highbeams are selected.
 
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Old Jun 2, 2012 | 11:48 PM
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I'm taking a leap here because I've never had to get that far into the headlights. I'm thinking the red is the low beam and the green is the high beam. I'm working on getting the switch schematic up.
 
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The red/black wire also feeds the factory installed fog lamps. My current truck does not have those. My old truck did and when you switched on the high beams, the fog lamps were automatically shut off. (At least they did until I made a modification.)
 
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