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At the bottom of the diagram is the DRL module which shows a brown wire activating the low beams when the car starts to move. What I did is use a relay to connect the brown wire to the red wire which also comes from the DRL module and activates the high beams. I had to use a relay because if I simply spliced the brown wire to the red wire the high beams would not turn off when the low beams turn on.
Now to the problem, the wires are negative ground, and I measured the negative voltage on the brown wire when it activates the DRL's and it shows a 12.5 VDC when running as DRL's and 14VDC when tunning as regular low beams. Of course for the high beams this voltage is too high and makes the lights too bright. What I want to do is lower the voltage on the brown negative wire to around 10 VDC when the DRL's are running. I used the OHM's calculator on the site, and if I am not mistaken the lights are using around 10 AMPS. Am I also correct to assume that the voltage is around 120 watts (60 watts X2) or is the load only 60 watts? (each lightbulb is 60 watts).
So my question is can I use a resistor on the negative brown wire before it connects to the red wire, and if so what resistor can I use. If not how would I handle this problem?
TIA
Xavier
