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pie
14-10-10, 02:16 PM
mrs bought a hid kit for her corsa b......normal depo H4 lights

went to fit them and it says you got to run 20amp fuse inline?

any ideas

i aint clued up on car electrics :lol:

thanks
:thumb:
Jack
14-10-10, 03:04 PM
I reckon you need to fit a fuse. 20amp should do it.

lol

The only place you should need a fuse on a HID setup is the battery harness (if you have one), or on the OEM loom (which should already be in place - might not be a 20amp one though)
MK999
14-10-10, 03:32 PM
or on the OEM loom (which should already be in place - might not be a 20amp one though)

Contrary to popular belief the fuse is to protect the loom not the headlights etc though, so if it's not a 20amp fuse, it's not 20amp cabling either and it'll be getting a tad toasty.

If a nova loom is specced to take all 4 of the 50/55w filaments on at once though it will be a 20amp fuse/cabling to suit already.
Jack
14-10-10, 04:03 PM
True, but a decent HID kit will/should simply use the OEM loom to operate a relay, whilst the HIDs will have their own independent power supply (the battery harness kits you can get). But then if its just to do the relay, I wouldn't have thought it would need a 20A fuse lol
MK999
14-10-10, 04:07 PM
True, but a decent HID kit will/should simply use the OEM loom to operate a relay, whilst the HIDs will have their own independent power supply (the battery harness kits you can get). But then if its just to do the relay, I wouldn't have thought it would need a 20A fuse lol

Would imagine the warning to use a 20A fuse just means the battery harness kit is not supplied and it simply states that the fuse is necessary to make sure the correct fusing is present in an after market harness or DIY job then.
pie
14-10-10, 05:01 PM
the hid kit has no relays etc just the ballast thingy n bulb looms :lol:
pie
14-10-10, 05:05 PM
heres a pic

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs394.ash2/67229_1433494684467_1445917278_30949217_1386632_n. jpg
pie
14-10-10, 08:17 PM
they are now fitted but

when you flash them they r like normal headlights???

why is this

thanks
Benn
14-10-10, 08:21 PM
It looks like most kits and has a fuse build it... Cant see what the prob is?
Nova looms/wiring is really up to the power so you cant just bang in a relay..

They wont flash like normal headlights tho.. They have a delay and light up like hids...
Bubba
14-10-10, 09:03 PM
dip beam is HID high beam is normal light?
Adam
14-10-10, 09:13 PM
You have to have a Bi-xenon kit to have low and high HID beams
Jack
14-10-10, 09:19 PM
Aye, they probably have a filament high beam.

They wont flash like normal headlights tho.. They have a delay and light up like hids...
All three pairs of HIDs I have flash bright when you first turn them on for a second, then dim down and come back up to brightness. I just assumed they stored a charge to combat the slow warm up for when you want to flash the lights
Benn
14-10-10, 09:57 PM
Aye, they probably have a filament high beam.

All three pairs of HIDs I have flash bright when you first turn them on for a second, then dim down and come back up to brightness. I just assumed they stored a charge to combat the slow warm up for when you want to flash the lights

My kit was a high/low kit and it wouldn't. If i flashed it would take a few sec to come on and they would kinda surge up then out... Utter sh*te.
Benn
14-10-10, 09:58 PM
dip beam is HID high beam is normal light?

You cant do that, where would the other bulb be?
pie
14-10-10, 10:00 PM
think your right adam :)
Jack
14-10-10, 10:50 PM
Benn, were yours H4? Maybe its different for them, mine are 9005/6 and H1 (or H7, one or t'other)

You cant do that, where would the other bulb be?
http://www.xenonlink.com/images/h4hbulb.jpg
Benn
15-10-10, 07:55 AM
Sorry mine where h4 with a single bulb that moved for high and main beam.. I'll look for pics laterrr
pie
15-10-10, 09:47 AM
thats the bulb in the kit jack :)
Adam
15-10-10, 08:09 PM
Sorry mine where h4 with a single bulb that moved for high and main beam.. I'll look for pics laterrr
Yeah thats the Bi kit, same as i had on mine.
A solenoid/relay shifts alters the bulb to changed the beam height (hi/lo)
John
15-10-10, 08:14 PM
Ok so which kit is the better for h4? The bi kit?
Adam
15-10-10, 08:20 PM
If you want HID main and low beam yeah....
Lol

You dont really need main beam though with HID low, because they are so much better than normal filament bulbs.

Although i dont really rate HIDs in H4 lights, especially nova ones as they give a to** beam pattern.
John
17-10-10, 09:35 AM
Ok cool, someone post a link to a reasonable price kit? cba to trawl through the 2000 odd bits of tat on the bay to find one kit lol
Benn
17-10-10, 10:47 AM
Although i dont really rate HIDs in H4 lights, especially nova ones as they give a to** beam pattern.

Corse it will, the headlight glass isn't built to run them. Hence the total lack of beam paten.. Another reason why i binned mine.
pie
17-10-10, 01:20 PM
there in a corsa and the beam is good just got to try them in the morretts

the beam will prob be all over place :lol:
Benn
17-10-10, 02:23 PM
Beam will be just as bad in a Corsa, as again the glass makes the paten.