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Florida Chapter Truck of the Year 2008  |
Anybody have an idea why the HID lights on a new install are flashing. The grounds are good and the rest of the wiring is correct. Bad relay maybe??? Has anyone seen this before?
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"Dr. John" HTC Electrical Consultant Truck of the Month September 2007  |
Yes, unfortunately we've seen this before. What's happening is the ballast for the HID system isn't providing enough of a load to the headlight circuit in the truck. The truck "thinks" there is no bulb in the socket and turns the circuit off. Then, it comes back on because the headlight switch is on. Then the cycle repeats.
You have to buy the HID kits that are computer-friendly. In other words, kits that trick the truck into thinking a regular bulb is there. One thing you could try is using relays. They *might* provide enough of a load. I've included a schematic below.      |
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"Mark" Forum Manager Former Hemi truck owner  |
Thanks John
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Florida Chapter Truck of the Year 2008 |
440 SixPak One thing you could try is using relays. They *might* provide enough of a load. I've included a schematic below.
440 Sixpack, I seem to have missed the schematic. would you list it again for us.  Thanks.
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Florida Chapter Truck of the Year 2008 |
 Never mind. It magically appeared once my computer woke up a little. Thanks 440 SixPak
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HTC.com Sponsor 3rdStrike Performance President, Missouri Chapter Truck of the Month March 2006  |
Good info John! Thanks.
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"Mike" |
Also add a 7500MF capasitor in line on each light. Not holding the right volts for the light and the computer thinks its not there. Did it for mine and now they work perfect!  2004 Flame Red Hemi, Regular Cab, Cold Air Kit, Functional SRT10 Ram Air Hood, Superchip 3815, Fullbore Cat Back Exhaust, Edelbrock Mid Headers, Silverline Tips, Fire & Ice Bar, 6000K Series HIDs in Headlights Bumper Fogs and under the grill HELLA's, LED Tail Lights, OEM SRT10 22x10s, 305/40/22 Cooper Zeons...More To Come Soon...plus I definitely see a ZEX Nitrous Kit in my truck very, very soon! See my toy pics at http://s222.photobucket.com/albums/dd72/NYHEMIBOY/ Survivor of the September '07, '08, New York GTG Survivor of the June '08 Rains of Canandaigua Hemi Truck Show GTG          |
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 great tip This is my Hemi, there's many like it but this one is mine.   |
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same thing happened to me
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installed my hids friday and they have flickered but only 3 times. i bought the 2 1000mf capacitors but am confused as to where to install them. do i need to splice them somewhere inline between the ballast and the hid bulb or the factory harness and the ballast? i have no clue here.
2008 qc 1500 hemi lone star - stock for now. |
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