How do you wire a spotlight to a high beam?
To wire spotlights to work together with your high beams is not that difficult. The diagram below shows a simple wiring diagram for connecting spotlights to work together with your high beams. All you need is some wire and lugs, a 12V 4 Pole relay and two fuse holders with the correct fuses.
What kind of wiring do you need for a spotlight?
Just make sure that you use decent sized wires and a proper fuse holder for the connection of the power between the battery and the relay as well as the spot lights.
Where is the fuse box on a Softail?
But here’s the deal: the year of your Softail will determine where your fuse box is located. Most often, it is located under the seat. But unless you have a service manual, you won’t be able to know where to look. So, the first important component is your service manual.
How do you connect a fuse to a spotlight?
Now connect a wire between the batteries’ positive (+ / red) pole and pin 30 of the relay with the bakelite fuse holder in this wire, but do not insert the fuse yet. Pin 87 is connected to the positive wires of the spotlights. Pin 86 will be connected to the existing wire that feeds your high beam.
Why are my spotlights not working after installing?
A common mistake installers make with negatively switched systems is that they tap into what they assumed was the high beam hot wire (negative switched systems have no hot-wire), when in fact it was minor current bleeding through the low beam filament. Now that the low beam filament is gone and replaced with LED, the spotlights do not work.
How does a negatively switched light trigger work?
In order to get a reliable trigger from a negatively switched wiring system, one must take two wires from the headlight, one from the common supply for low and high beam and one from the high beam terminal that will be grounded via the high beam dip switch.
To wire spotlights to work together with your high beams is not that difficult. The diagram below shows a simple wiring diagram for connecting spotlights to work together with your high beams. All you need is some wire and lugs, a 12V 4 Pole relay and two fuse holders with the correct fuses.
Just make sure that you use decent sized wires and a proper fuse holder for the connection of the power between the battery and the relay as well as the spot lights.