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Offline Cameron 77C3

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« on: June 28, 2006, 12:05:02 PM »
Found this on another site.

One note though.  Do Not use the jumper option.  That is not quite correct but the rest is.

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« Reply #1 on: November 24, 2006, 08:13:35 PM »
I was about to ask what's wrong with the jumper option, but i think i figured it out.

  Is it that your dimmer switch would now be trying to power the high beam directly from a low capacity circuit thus possibly blowing a fuse or burning out the wiring?

  If so, wouldn't a large diode ( such as in my invisible auto resetting killswitch on the 4by ) sort out this problem??

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« Reply #2 on: November 24, 2006, 08:36:10 PM »
Yes, the problem is the dimmer switch, as labeled on drawing (low/high beam switch or dip switch), when on low beam the high beam comes on via the dimmer switch.  Hence dimmer switch carrys full load current.  A diode in the jumper would resolve the problem of the back feed.
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