Adding headlight relays, can't due to lamp out BS.

[Gary - K7GLD]

Most of the commonly used relays use very low coil current - which seems to be why the lamp-out issue occurs for some. Aside from that issue, locating the relay taps into the light circuit would seem most easy at a point somewhere near the lights themselves - mine are immediately at the lights, and work quite well, plus, the rest of the added circuitry remains short and close to the lights themselves.

 

[Pawpaw]

I'll second what Gary said. I recently put a pair of Hella 500FF's on my truck. I pulled the left headlight and tapped into the high-beam wire about 6" behind the plug. It worked perfectly the first time I flipped the switch I installed on the dash.



Having said that, the wiring on your '06 is vastly different than that on my '04. Still, the same principles apply.



In my case, the wire I added goes back to the new dash switch. The other side of the switch feeds the relay which I mounted on the inside fender above the left battery.



Bob

 

[monkeyman]

With my HID's the headlight switch only applies power to the relay's. All wiring is done by the batteries and is plug and play. This item number on e-bay solved all my problems: 260322805305
Rick

 

[JKloppe]

Unless I'm missing something, you end up using both the significant ampreage to "fool" the lamp-out circuit - PLUS the normal draw of lights themselves...



Seems sort of wasteful...

A 4. 7 ohm resistor at 13. 5v = 38 watts = 2. 8 amps

75 watts is the maximum power the resistor can cool under ideal conditions not the usage. Any resistor will need to be mounted on a heat sink to get the longest life possible. I wont take any chances with cheap Chinese ebay junk.

 

[MA2LA]

Its realy odd I have a low beam out on my 06 right now and i belive a brake light and I have gotten no indication from the computer they are out.

 

[monkeyman]

Fog Lights, Factory Lights, Driving Lights Etc. Do not use Ballast and starters to fire lamps.

HID lights do. The factory switch that uses power running through it cannot handle the load that the HID components use. As such you are better off if you convert to HID lamps, to use the system that I used.

Rick

 

[Matt400]

Over on another Chrysler board they are using a 470µF 35V capacitor for that function.

Its seems to work fine on the LX body cars but I wonder where the stored power goes when the lights are shut off.

 

[EDankievitch]

Gino's has a bright box kit that does most of what you are asking for... ?