Wiring offroad lights to high beams and whenever?

[slosurfer]

Pics:

Carling Rocker Switch:


This is how it lights up when I have my parking lights or low beams on.


This is how it lights up when my highbeams are on

[slosurfer]

Some light output pics.

Stock low beams


Stock high beams


Just the 170's with clear lenses both on spot light


High beams and 170's clear lenses


Just the 170's with yellow combo spot/driving lights


Highbeams and 170's with yellow combo lenses

[Good Times]

boy that's gonna look nice for pismo good job!

[bigwapitijohnny]

Welcome to the 'Lightforce' family ...just to let you know, the colored filters do NOT dissipate the heat generated on these lights as well as the clear ones do. So be aware of the time that the lights are on with the colored filters...

Regards,

BWJ

[slosurfer]

boy that's gonna look nice for pismo good job!

Thanks! I'm still trying to get the adjustments where I like them. Right now they are aimed slightly above my high beams. I definately see how lights are addictive, once you get a set it's easy to think, "hmmmm.... if I had these other ones, I could see all the way over there!"

Welcome to the 'Lightforce' family ...just to let you know, the colored filters do NOT dissipate the heat generated on these lights as well as the clear ones do. So be aware of the time that the lights are on with the colored filters...

Regards,

BWJ

Thanks Jon, I now see what all the hype is about over these lights. Thanks for the heads up on the lenses, I did notice that the lenses were hotter to the touch than the clear. I thought it was my imagination, lol. I'm stilll trying to figure out how to put those security nuts on the adjustment bolt. It's hard to get a crescent wrench in there. I haven't spent a lot of time on it yet though.

[slosurfer]

Just an update: the way the switch is wired has worked great. I used the highbeam/LF combo coming home from Mojave Rd. while on Hwy 166, this was the first time that I really used it for any length of time. Anyways, just an update.

[slosurfer]

I want to add a third light that I will eventually wire independantly of the other two, but until I get another wire harness, I just want to add it to my existing setup. My question is, can I just tap into my lightforce wiring harness? My 170's are 35watt HID and I'll be adding a 100watt halogen(eventually a 50watt HID), so I'll still be under the original 200watts that were originally flowing through the harness. Thoughts/suggestions?
Here's the diagram with my lightforce wiring harness, so you can see what I'm working with:

[slosurfer]

After picking Sean's brain in the chatroom, I went ahead and tapped my wire harness for the third light. So far so good! Thanks Sean.

[Seanz0rz]

heres sometihgn i drew up real quick for someone else on the board, but could be adapted to any of these situations where the desired outcome is lights on with a light controlled via the vehicle, in addition to lights on via a separate switch. i think this is the easiest and most robust way of doing this, and prevents large currents through a switch, which is never a good idea, especially when using smaller switches never intended to handle the current.

[slosurfer]

Sean, is that showing 2 relays?