RooK
Supercharged
For those having the issue of the high beam indicator staying lit after fitting LED headlights
What happens is there is voltage leakage of one (or both) headlamps sending power back into the high beam wiring from the headlamps. The problem seem to be worse as the headlamps warm up.
When cold mine had a 1.2V then as it warms up it is sending up to 5V. At some point in there there is enough voltage to keep the high beam indicator on.
FIX 1: you can install an isolation relay
FIX 2: Used a 2.8K Ohm 0.25w resistor between the high beam (Blue/White) and and neutral (Black) right behind one headlamp.
The resistor will "burn" the excess power and the high beam indicator won't turn on as it will keep the voltage around 0.2V dissipating 0.001W on low beams.
Anything over 1000 Ohm will work fie for a 1/4Watt resistor, below 1K Ohm would work too but keep in mind it will need to a higher wattage for when the high beams are used. Roughly 1K @ 13.7V will dissipate 0.2 Watts
Since both headlights are in parallel, this need to be done only at one light.
I hope this helps!
What happens is there is voltage leakage of one (or both) headlamps sending power back into the high beam wiring from the headlamps. The problem seem to be worse as the headlamps warm up.
When cold mine had a 1.2V then as it warms up it is sending up to 5V. At some point in there there is enough voltage to keep the high beam indicator on.
FIX 1: you can install an isolation relay
FIX 2: Used a 2.8K Ohm 0.25w resistor between the high beam (Blue/White) and and neutral (Black) right behind one headlamp.
The resistor will "burn" the excess power and the high beam indicator won't turn on as it will keep the voltage around 0.2V dissipating 0.001W on low beams.
Anything over 1000 Ohm will work fie for a 1/4Watt resistor, below 1K Ohm would work too but keep in mind it will need to a higher wattage for when the high beams are used. Roughly 1K @ 13.7V will dissipate 0.2 Watts
Since both headlights are in parallel, this need to be done only at one light.
I hope this helps!
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