HIDs WITHOUT a wiring harness? (Edit: I think I figured it out!!?) - read edit in first post if you already replied please

[somerandomguy]

Can anybody either find me a video OR show me how their HIDs are set up without a wiring harness?

Here's a video how mine were set up, one of my bulbs melted so I am thinking about getting new ones, but people saying that theirs don't have wiring harnesses is kind of.. scary

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBItNnBp1m0

This is how mine were set up (like how they set them up for the regular headlights) (I have no idea how they got power to the fogs, maybe this is what you guys that don't have wiring harnesses are talking about? I just don't understand how you hook the ballast to the battery without a harness..)

EDIT: I think I figured it out. You guys that don't have harnesses, you DON'T have bixenon (hi/lo), correct? I figured this out because I was looking around on ddm tuning and found their ...instrutions.. and the bulb I need (h4 bixenon) still has a harness.. but if I look at one (instructions) for non bixenon they don't...let me know please

Edited March 7, 2010 by somerandomguy

[PUNKYOU007]

I just had to plug my stock headlight plug into the ballast then plus the bulbs into the ballast and thats it.

[somerandomguy]

I just had to plug my stock headlight plug into the ballast then plus the bulbs into the ballast and thats it.

can you take pics or vid please? How do you get power to the ballast?

[t-money]

you could just run them off of a relay i can draw a pic if u need one

[Red-navi-916]

can you take pics or vid please? How do you get power to the ballast?

mine are just like punkyou007s, you just connect them straight to the stock wiring harness and they get their power through there, i love mine i have it on both the trucks here is a pic

they are pretty bright too

[somerandomguy]

bump to get it back on the first page so I can find out if I am right

[somerandomguy]

nobody?

[tacomabanga1986]

hids dont pull hella current like stock or aftermarket halogens do

hids work off about the same principle as florescent lights do and neon type setups

they take voltage in, and then boosts it to a higher voltage to excite the xenon gas inside the bulb and u have light, vs a halogen that uses resistance in a filament that gets hot to produce light

hid ballasts bull around 35-55w depending on the type kit u run but are still lower wattage than most halogens and are more efficent

my hid kit has one plug that goes into ONE stock light bulb harness and gives the bulbs power, and u have a pos wire that runs to the battery to run the high beam relay that moves the bulb in and out from low beam/high beam

even my maxcar hids didn't need a relay kit, they just have spade plugs that go into stock bulb harness and that gives the ballasts power

just look at it this way, all the ballast is is a transformer, takes low voltage and makes higher voltage, its pritty simple really

and my kit is the h4 8000k high/low kit with 35w ballasts

it comes with a wireing harness for the highbeam relay only, the ballasts run off one of the headlights harness plugs and sends the current threw the provided wires to turn them on, all u gotta do is run the ground wires to a ground were they go into the ballasts and hook a pos wire to ur battery for the highbeam relay and ur good to go

you may halfto modify the rubber boot for the bulb to fit tho, i had to cut mine a lil bit for them to fit

i think mine took a lil over 30min to install and that includes takeing my other hids out and putting these in, but will varry depending on cars

but when u get ur hi/low kit if its like mine u halfto twist off the reflector on the bulb and install it like you would a regular headlight, then put the rubber boot on, and then install the bulb but make sure u have atleast 4inches of clearence behind the bulb to install so u dont bend the bulb when installing it and u should be good to go

hope i made sence of this topic, and hope this helps, oh and if its bixenon then i dunno how those kits work, a bixenon like futurevisionhid.com sells has 2 hid bulbs on one piece, one for highbeam and one for low beam, but i think what u get from ddmtuning is like mine were the bulb moves in and out for low beam and high beam

Edited March 8, 2010 by tacomabanga1986

[tacomabanga1986]

oh ya, i forgot to add this, u will prolly need a relay harness for a 55w hi/low kit cause i dont think a factory harness can handle that kinda load off just one plug

if u get 35w hi/lows u dont need a relay, just with 55w kit and ddm doesnt recomend a 55w kit for fogs cause they get a lil warm

[tlee2]

just follow directions its harder to hook them up WITH the harness. Without it you can basically look and tell how they go. I dont have any pics or vids to help but you might find one on youtube