Don, do NOT put a ground lead to any of the 3 large spades on your switch!

end   spade   = wire from fuse 5
center spade  = wire to RELAY switch circuit lead
other end spade = wire from  a fused +12 source only when key on
(optional step)

leave the optional step off until things are working with only the first
2 wires above
never connect anything to the 2 small switch leads(live without a light
on the switch)

Mark

Don Hanson wrote:
> Thanks for helping, everyone.
>
>   I have all the hardware installed.  The lights work if you go to the
> battery direct.  The problem now is that the switch, as I am trying to use
> it,  causes my #5 fuse to blow when I activate the driving lights.
>
>   I'm sure I done something really elemental wrong, but I know so little
> about wiring that I'm not seeing my error.
>
>   I'll try to recount how I've done this so far, and maybe someone will be
> able to point me to my error.
>
>   First: The in-dash auxiliary light switch.  It has three positions...it
> also has three large spades and two smaller ones.  Ok, so the three big
> spades are load, current and ground, right?  and the two smaller terminals
> share that ground and power a little bulb that lights up the switch
> rocker..probably. If you use another power source to the small terminals.  I
> left those off, for now.  So, what's with the three positions for the
> switch?
>
>   Now to 'power' that switch, I've taken a wire from the #5 terminal on the
> main fuse panel. (I took it 'after' the fuse).  My owners manual says this
> is the fuse for "left high beam, high beam indicator".  In theory, this
> should put current to the switch only when the high beams are on.. I ran
> this wire to the terminal on the aux light switch, grounded that switch to
> the common ground points behind the fuse panel, and taken another (3rd) wire
> off,  from the switch to the 30amp lighting relay (four terminals relay)
> This is supposed to activate the power to the driving lights by tripping the
> relay.
>
>  ((Here is where I made my first mistake, the one that caused to continuous
> lighting of the High Beam indicator light...I took the switch feed wire from
> the wrong terminal..After about a hundred re-traces of the circuits, I found
> that, and I no longer have that problem))
>
>   So that should take care of the switching..but no, it doesn't.
>
>   To power the aux. lights, I ran a big wire (fused at the battery terminal)
> from the aux battery under the carpet and up to a relay (four connections,
> 30 amp)  near the fuse panel.  Pushed that onto the "30" spade terminal and
> ran another wire out to the lights from the One marked "load" on the relay.
> I connected the smaller wire from the aux light switch to the relay switch
> circuit and grounded the remaining  relay terminal, again to the common
> ground point behind the fuse panel..
>
>   Now as far as I can tell, this is how Joel, Walter and Marc said it should
> work.  Scott has something more complex..(thanks, everyone, BTW)
>
>   But when I throw the auxiliary light switch...to either of it's two
> positions, it snaps the #5 8amp fuse (for left high beam and indicator
> light, where I got the power for the switch)  So somewhere, it ain't right.
> I tried a 16 amp fuse and that blows, too.  When the fuse blows, the high
> beam no longer works.  Replace the fuse and all works right again, until you
> flip the aux light switch..
> Me thinks maybe somehow the full current to all the lights is going through
> that fuse circuit somehow, causing a big momentary load as the lights all
> power up..but what do I know..Total guess on my part..
>
>   Anyone care to try to figure where I went wrong?  If worse comes to it, I
> have the KC auxiliary switch that I can work into it but that will not allow
> me to control the Aux lights  to work in conjunction with the dimmer switch,
> which I'd like to do..It's dangerous and rude to be 'slow' to shut down very
> bright lights when you suddenly are faced with oncoming traffic.  I'd like
> that to happen with a flick of the dimmer..
>
>   Don Hanson
>
>
>