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nascarfreak88 
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Posted: April 30, 2005 at 11:46 PM / IP Logged  

My buddy picked up a pair of foglights that i installed today. It was a straight foreward install. Ran the switch from the dash to the little control box (i imagine its basically a relay inside of that box), then plug the lights into that little box.

well, now he wants to use his aux terminal on his alarm to turn on the fog lights, and i'm not sure if i know what wires i need to plug into the relay. is this how it should go?-

85-gound

86-(+) aux terminal on alarm

30-fused battery link

87-positive foglight wires

is that correct or should 85 and 86 be switched around???

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Aux is prob gonna be a negative output. So 87 is gonna be your positive output to the foglight relay that will turn the lights on. 86 will go to the aux output of the alarm, and 86 along with 30 to 12v power.
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Aux is prob gonna be a negative output. So 87 is gonna be your positive output to the foglight relay that will turn the lights on. 86 will go to the aux output of the alarm, and 85 along with 30 to 12v power.
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Posted: May 01, 2005 at 11:22 PM / IP Logged  

Disregard the first post.

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Posted: May 02, 2005 at 2:36 AM / IP Logged  

you know with this aux output you are only going to have them be on while you're holding the button,

is that all you are going for or are you trying to have them stay on? if you want to do it a good way i'd get a dei pulse timer, this way you can hit the button once, and they will stay on for 30 seconds or so (you can change how long this is)

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Posted: May 02, 2005 at 2:51 PM / IP Logged  

correct, i want them to say on.

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how do you want them to stay on? if you want them to stay on untill you hit the button again, you will have to do a latching / unlatching relay set up,

https://www.the12volt.com/relays/page5.asp#lsp

check that out,, if you want them to stay on for like a min or so after you hit it once, then look for a pulse timer

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ok ive been looking into that DEI thing, and i think that is what we will go with, though now another question-

can i run the power straight to the power wire on the foglights?? the setup he has is already remote controlled. they came with a little black box, and everything was a basic plug and play into that box. He then uses the supplied remote to turn them off and on.

two problems- He now had two big 'ol remotes on his key chain, and the lights stay on untill pressed off. Plus there have been a few times the lights have come on becuse the buttons on the remote were pushed while in his pocket.

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oops, just saw the post above-

yeah i just want to hit the button once, and then have them time out. 1-90 seconds isnt all that long to wait for them to shut off.

though if i was to use that setup in the link you posted, where would the timer go??

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oops, just saw the post above-

yeah i just want to hit the button once, and then have them time out. 1-90 seconds isnt all that long to wait for them to shut off.

though if i was to use that setup in the link you posted, where would the timer go??

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