Wes, the wand IS the dimmer switch!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wesley Pegden" <wes@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 5:09 PM
Subject: Re: headlight relay installation problems...

> Hi guys,
>
> I've fixed my problem.  Indeed, the white wire was what I wanted.  I was
> quite confused.  Neither this, nor the yellow-and-black wire, go to the
> dimmer switch.  Both run between the wand and the fuse box.
>
> -Wes
>
>
> Wesley Pegden wrote:
>
> > Hi guys,
> > I'm putting in relays for the headlights in my '84.  I'm experiencing
> > some strange behavior, and am afraid I  have shorted something out (but
> > maybe not, then again).
> >
> > To install the relays, I cut the low and high beam wires (on my '84,
> > these are yellow-and-black and white-and-black, if I've done this
> > right), between the headlight (dimmer) switch and the turn signal/high
> > beam wand to the left of the steering wheel.  If I twist these wires
> > back together, everything works.  If I hook them all up to the relays
> > (which I believe are correctly grounded and powered) then only the high
> > beams work (but they really work: i.e, they stay on, whereas with both
> > of these wires cut, the high beams will flash when you pull the wand,
> > but not stay).  If I run just the high beam wires through one of the
> > relays, but twist the low-beam (yellow-and-black) wires together,
> > everything works, REGARDLESS of which relay the white-and-black wires
> > run through (Which is why I suspect the relays are okay).  On the other
> > hand, in any configuration where the yellow-and-black wires go through a
> > relay, I can't get the low beams to work.
> >
> > Other possibly strange  behavior:  To get the low-beams to work, I need
> > to twist together both sets of wires, whereas for the high beams, just
> > twisting together the high-beam (white-and-black) wires is enough.
> >
> > Have I perhaps used the wrong wires?  There's a white wire coming out
> > the signal wand... should I have used that instead of the
> > white-and-black wire?
> >
> > Thanks for any help, guys.
> >
> > -Wes
> >
>
>
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