How to isolate (switch?) LED spots from main beam?

[micken]

Hi, I think I know the answer to this but just checking with forum wisdom :bow before the inevitable surgery.

My T2 came with a LED strip attached to the bull bars that does a good imitation of the spotlights they used for dam busting. The LED flood/spots give me a lot of reflected dazzle from road signs out in the countryside and I want to make them switchable for off road use only - where there's no road signs :lol

My take on it is to run a switch from the dash to pin 86 wire (as in Workshop 30 guide) on the relay so it intercepts the main beam switching circuit.

I'm also thinking of installing some rear floods on the same basis for off road use when reversing. So I'll have switchable front and rear LED lasers :lol:lol:lol

What say you guys?

Cheers,

Mick

 

[jims-terrano]

Your strip lamp should be wired via a relay, find the trigger wire for the relay which probably comes from your high beam. I would simply wire a switch into that trigger wire.
As for the rear lights, I got a pair of LED work lights and fitted the, to the roof above tailgate. Took a feed direct from reverse light feed as a temporary feed, just not got around to putting a permanent feed using a relay and a switch.

Dropping you a pm.

 

[micken]

Hi Jim

Thanks for your pm and offer of help. I've pm'd you :thumb2

Cheers,

Mick

 

[zippy656]

There's a download for light


Hope it helps

 

[micken]

There's a download for light


Hope it helps

Cheers zippy, I think that's the workshop 30 guide that I mentioned. If not then give me a lead on it and I'll take a look.

Thanks,

Mick

 

[zippy656]

Cheers zippy, I think that's the workshop 30 guide that I mentioned. If not then give me a lead on it and I'll take a look.

Thanks,

Mick

Yep its wk30

 

[micken]

Yep its wk30

:thumb2:thumb2

 

[zippy656]

I have 4 lights on roof,

But each pair have own relay and fuse, so can go to 100w bulbs

Also if one fuse fails I only lose two lights not four

 

[micken]

Great to meet you this evening Jim. Many thanks for the help and advice, very much enjoyed the chat and it was great to see your two project cars. It will be interesting to see how the MGB develops.

Cheers, Mick

 

[jims-terrano]

Cheers Mick, just got in after finishing playing with the truck. Yeah always great to meet club members and chew the fat. Like that LED light bar, think mine is missing one of them:thumbs

 

[Fez_uk]

If you use a 3 way switch you can have 3 options for the spotlight - Off / On with main beams / On all the time.