I have recently purchased and received some after-market driving lamps (rally lights), Hella Optilux's "Angel Eye". It comes with everything you need to install, but nothing in great detail about what fuse to use.

What fuse do those of you who have driving lamps/rally lights have them on? I know the OEM ones are wired on the same switch as high beams, but is it also on the same fuse?

If I don't wire it to the high beams, could I still use that fuse?

Thanks in advance!!

 

I don't see why you couldn't use that fuse, but it is much simpler to tap into the hot wire of the high beam. Some prefer to do this right at the headlight (which is the method used in the sticky in this forum...it is really excellent by the way and helped me alot in my install), other are bold enough to find that wire inside the cabin (it's hiding in a wiring harness with about a hundred other wires!).

 

Oops...my bad: the sticky is over in interior/exterior mods https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...ad.php?t=29482

 

Yes, with mine, I tapped into the high beam wire right behind the driver's side headlamp, which, in my '04 MCS with xenons, is a green/yellow wire. The kit I had from IPF had a plastic snap-on bridge connecter, which you click onto the high beam wire. By doing so, the insulation is stripped enough to have a piece of metal make a bridge over to the kits' wire. Slap on some electrical tape, and you're good to go. My kit had its' own fuse, inline on the kit's wire...

This is the kit that comes with the Alta rally style light bar.

 

basically any switched fuse would work for your trigger wire.

 

No sorry Dave, do not use the same fuse.

See here http://www.rallylights.com/useful_in...amp_wiring.htm

use an inline 30 amp fuse with 12g wires for two lamps to be safe.

 

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yah, for your power supply, make a direct connection.