Need help wireing up my hella 500s..

[WannaXP8]

Im gunna use the switch that comes with the kit, and the relay, but I wanna be able to turn the lights on at any point, with the car on or off, with the lights on or off..but in the instructions they say you gotta run a wire off the high beam wire, and I dont see why you have to do that?? Then its got another wire running from your battery to the relay? Does the wire that you connect to your high beam mean that you can only use them when the high beams are on?? OR could I just run that wire thats suppost to go to the high beam wire, to the fuse pannel?? Help me please..

 

[JoshC]

Yeah don't worry about the directions, just wire up to the fuse panel, don't go strait to the battery. There's no reason to wire it to the highbeams, seems like it's a bigger waste of time then anything else.

 

[Alec]

I would run main power for the lights from the battery. I would not run main power for 55W lights from any other circuit, but that's just me.

The switch power is what Hella tells you to run from the highbeam circuit. This wire you can tap into any always-on fuse or run it off the battery too.

 

[WannaXP8]

well josh how do you have yours ran???

 

[JoshC]

I have it off another fuse box i've wired up. I did use the relay too. They work great. I've 3 sets of lights on my truck. But Alec does have a good point about the 55w's. I just try to stay away from wiring directly to the battery.