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I Recently purchased an HID conversion from a fellow member on the forum. It has the components pictured.
The projector assembly was built by a forum member who sells them - tuxedoblack11. I asked a few basic questions of him prior to purchasing, an he was very helpful. I hate to keep bothering him, since I wasn't original purchaser.
The housings themselves are in great shape. Original owner reports he had no issues with them other than getting a good ground. I have no reason not to believe him, as he seemed straight up. Packed them awesome with tons of wrap and such.
Truck is in my sig.
I initially hooked them up for a test fire. Nothing. Double checked connections. Hot and ground. Checked inline fuse. Good. Swapped to other headlight. Nothing. Tried other ballast. Nothing.
Noticed the morimoto controller appeared to be trying to ground where I had it sitting. Stretched the ground wire to the negative on the battery. Success!
Appeared to be firing off fine. Pull on for high beam. Nothing. In fact, light went off. Attributed this to my temporary setup.
So, assuming all is good, I start mounting ballast and controller. Mounted ball at on doublesided tape on frame below headlight. Controller on vertically on rad support. Slipped headlight into position but not all the way. Turned lights on, nothing.
Positive straight to battery. Ground to the grounding lug behind rad support. I pulled that and went straight to battery. Nothing.
I can hear the controller click when I plug it's harness into my oem halogen harness. So I know the signal is getting to the controller.
I stuck a volt meter to the Plug that goes on back of projector. No reading.
Various readings between 2-12v off pins on the controller (the wide plug that has like 12 pins).
Anyone have any ideas on what I need to check and where?
I'm pretty mechanically savvy and know a decent amount on 12v stuff. But have no idea how to check if adaptor harness is bad or what.
As it sits right now, I'm leaning toward a bad adaptor/harness.
could be a bad relay box, the thing on the right, they were known to corrode, trs updated the harness, could also be the connector that connects to the bulb output from the truck, mine corroded really bad in there
I had a bad relay about a year after I bought a set from tuxedoblack11. I ending up getting a new one from retrofitsource. So basically what kidastra said.
I had a bad relay about a year after I bought a set from tuxedoblack11. I ending up getting a new one from retrofitsource. So basically what kidastra said.
Are there multiple harnesses or one size fits all? A link to the one you purchased would be greatly appreciated.
03-30-2015, 09:01 PM
Troubleshooting: HID conversion
