led running lights and hid fog light problem

[KppcRampRat420]

I bought hid conversion from ddm tuning, installed them along with hid headlamps, no problems at all. I went to buy recons led 3157 and 3156 for the four corner lights, and the fog lamps began blowing fuses in the engine bay fuse box. I put in 50w 6 ohm ressitors in all four led lights it solved the blinking issue but im still blowing #29 fuse in engine bay.
Please any help would be greatly appreciated.
P.s I have a 01 sport trac

Thanks

 

[bdmaash]

I bought hid conversion from ddm tuning, installed them along with hid headlamps, no problems at all. I went to buy recons led 3157 and 3156 for the four corner lights, and the fog lamps began blowing fuses in the engine bay fuse box. I put in 50w 6 ohm ressitors in all four led lights it solved the blinking issue but im still blowing #29 fuse in engine bay.
Please any help would be greatly appreciated.
P.s I have a 01 sport trac

Thanks

didn't wire the system up right, fuses only blow with shorts or too much current.
Older style ballasts can draw up to 20Amps each on start up.

LED bulbs draw way less current, so there's no way that's your problem unless you put the wrong style bulbs in the sockets. Adding the resistors will draw more current.

I don't know what fuse 29 is for and don't plan on looking it up, so no help there.

 

[ncranchero]

F1.29, 15A, feeds the fog lamp relay.

I'm not a proponent of of replacing OEM lighting with LED's or HID's so I am not familiar with them. IMO, if you need more light add auxiliary lights. Sorry I can't help with that.

 

[KppcRampRat420]

The fog lamps don't have a short I put the regular halogens back in and they work fine

 

[bdmaash]

The fog lamps don't have a short I put the regular halogens back in and they work fine

You put regular halogens back in the foglamps and they work fine, so the truck works perfectly fine as it was designed to right? and there is no problem.

 

[KppcRampRat420]

None just when the hids are turnib on it blows the fog lamp fuse

 

[bdmaash]

None just when the hids are turnib on it blows the fog lamp fuse

sorry haven't looked at this thread 'till now,

my response is based on the assumption you have HIDs in your foglamps.

You need a relay harness for the foglamps, or increase the fuse size,
As mentioned before startup current for older style HID ballasts is high, it appears the startup for both ballasts is more than 15A, after they are started the current will drop to 7.5A combined, but you may be pulling up to 40A when the ballasts starts up.

I suggest going the relay harness route.
- switching the battery to the ballast, using the foglamp power to control the relay.
http://www.the12volt.com/relays/relays.asp if you want to figure it out yourself, instead of buying the harness.

 

[patrick112390]

for god sakes, dont put a bigger fuse in there. we would be doing a part out of the NON burned parts off your truck.....relay harness ftw

 

[KppcRampRat420]

Yeah I didn't even for a second wanna try that saw my bro put a 30 in for a 25 on his truck cause hehaving the same issuse and I refuse to. My hid kit came with a extra harness im thinking I can switch out the fuse and relay in the harness down to 15a and that in theory should work. Well see.

 

[bdmaash]

Yeah I didn't even for a second wanna try that saw my bro put a 30 in for a 25 on his truck cause hehaving the same issuse and I refuse to. My hid kit came with a extra harness im thinking I can switch out the fuse and relay in the harness down to 15a and that in theory should work. Well see.

For some reason ^^^^ doesn't make sense.
- you received a relay harness with the kit (i presume), with a specific fuse that is supposed to work with it. now you are changing that fuse to a different size.

The harness is provided so you don't fry the factory wiring by bypassing it all (the factory wiring)

If you've followed the instruction with the harness there shouldn't be any issues. (hopefully the seller provided detailed instructions)

 

[KppcRampRat420]

Ok well I hooked up the harness that came with the hids now it blows the 20 amp fuse for the harness and leaves the 15 amp factory fuse alone and the light for the switch now comes on fine.

 

[bdmaash]

Ok well I hooked up the harness that came with the hids now it blows the 20 amp fuse for the harness and leaves the 15 amp factory fuse alone and the light for the switch now comes on fine.

definately a wiring issue then, unless the ballasts are bad.

First unplug both ballasts, and turn on the fogs to see if the fuse blows. If it's ok, plug in one ballast, if it doesn't blow, unplug the first ballast then plug in the other ballast and try again.
Test both ballasts one at a time, you never know the first one may blow a fuse, but the second one won't.

If the ballasts seem fine, swap them with the headlight ones to just for the hell of it. (just another experiment)


Get a few fuses for the experiments.


it is possible the 12V wiring to the ballast could also be wired backwards.

 

[KppcRampRat420]

How would you mean wired backwards.
I did it this way I could be wrong but this is how I took it.

The one line with fuse to relay to the battery

From the relay to two ballast each one a wire

A ground

I plugged the two clips on each they only went one way

I didn't mess with wires from ballast to lights yet
My car died and was making a clicking noise think I killed it with an open door or something
turns out it needed water in the battery but I did disconnect the harness

 

[bdmaash]

How would you mean wired backwards.
I did it this way I could be wrong but this is how I took it.

The one line with fuse to relay to the battery

From the relay to two ballast each one a wire

A ground

I plugged the two clips on each they only went one way

I didn't mess with wires from ballast to lights yet
My car died and was making a clicking noise think I killed it with an open door or something
turns out it needed water in the battery but I did disconnect the harness

The plug that goes into the ballast could be wired backwards ( even though it only goes in one way)

...clicking is low battery, only use distilled/pure water in the battery, or there may be an explosion

maybe post pics of all connectors and wires

 

[KppcRampRat420]

I put in bottled water poland spring. If its not raining maybe during th day I could futz with it got a couple of 20 amps so

 

[bdmaash]

Doesn't bottled water have minerals in it?
Personally I wouldn't want to be anywhere near that battery.
You might want to check with a battery expert to see there are safety implications with putting bottled drinking water in the battery instead of distilled water.

 

[Kendall101]

Fog lamp problem

Fog lamps on my 05 explorer dont work new relay and fuses along with new bulbs what could be the problem

 

[01STrunner]

Search around on the performance lighting sub forum. I'm sure youd get a bunch of answers and ideas there too.