Wiring In 2 Relays?

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Topic: Wiring In 2 Relays?

Posted By: kevinjensen68
Subject: Wiring In 2 Relays?
Date Posted: December 25, 2006 at 11:02 PM

Hello folks.

I have the basics down about relay's and can wire in a single relay to power a pair of lights (my backup lights to be exact). I want to add a pair of them, what wires am I supposed to double up and what goes where, I tried a few different combinations of wires and kept blowing fuses.

Kevin

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Posted By: killer sonata
Date Posted: December 25, 2006 at 11:51 PM

what do you need 2 relays for? Im not fully understanding what you are trying to do here.

Posted By: bsd1
Date Posted: December 26, 2006 at 12:36 AM

Start here.

Posted By: kevinjensen68
Date Posted: December 26, 2006 at 3:02 PM

killer sonata wrote:

what do you need 2 relays for? Im not fully understanding what you are trying to do here.

Wanted to have a relay for each light.

BSD1,

Thanks for the diagram, didnt mean to wiz you off or anything man wasnt trying to double post, my POS computer has a mind of its own.

Posted By: hotwaterwizard
Date Posted: December 27, 2006 at 11:15 PM

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John DeRosa (Hotwaterwizard)
Stockton California
When in doubt, try it out !

Posted By: ff-mike
Date Posted: December 28, 2006 at 9:12 AM

][QU wrote:

TE=killer sonata] what do you need 2 relays for?

kevinjensen68 wrote:

Wanted to have a relay for each light.

[/quote]

Any particular reason why? Not wanting to do a Y-connection, or redundancy, or just ???

Posted By: hotwaterwizard
Date Posted: December 28, 2006 at 8:02 PM

It does not matter why.

He wants what he wants so we just give him the circuit. posted_image

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John DeRosa (Hotwaterwizard)
Stockton California
When in doubt, try it out !

Posted By: turbo_boss
Date Posted: December 29, 2006 at 2:25 PM

ff-mike wrote:

][QU wrote:

TE=killer sonata] what do you need 2 relays for?

kevinjensen68 wrote:

Wanted to have a relay for each light.

Any particular reason why? Not wanting to do a Y-connection, or redundancy, or just ???[/QUOTE]

Maybe he thinks he need a relay for each light or maybe he is intalling two HI amperage halogen and he wants a relay for each one.

Isaac