Wires from HID ballast connect to?

[Clay]

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Where do the power (Red) and ground (Black) connect to? This is the Apexcone (35w 4300k) HID conversion kit from SharpHID.com.

 

[InfiniteGSX]

Black is ground, and red is positive... ... hit it to your battery, your lights will turn on! To get the best connection, dont ground the wire to the ground wire, pin its ass down to the chassis!

Since you got one of the brighter kits... you might want to position your car on the road and re adjust your headlights a little down, not all the way, just a tad cause your puting them in stock headlights, people infront of you will get a very bright glare. I have 10000k which is white with a blue tint... so mine isn't as bright as yours should be, and I get people thinking those are my highs all the time. I have Amber highs.... very bright! hehe

 

[Clay]

Thanks a bunch! Btw, the headlights are the el-cheap'o eBay projectors.

 

[InfiniteGSX]

Oh ok... Did you do the conversion to the Projectors? Or just get a H1 HID Kit? If so, could you happen to take some pictures of the bulb, and everything turned on... I'd love to see... Check out the other HID thread, me and another guy posted pics of our HID's and ebay projectors, but we both did the housing swap with BMW or Acura Projectors.

 

[boostnhard]

isnt it simpler to just take the plug from you stock head lamp, solder the HIDs red to black on the plug and the black on the HIDs the the green on the plug?Then you just plug them in your stock location. This will allow you to turn the HIDs on with the stock headlamp switch.

And since your getting cheapo ebay headlamp, i bet youll see a sticker that says "HID balb not allowed". Having this in mind I recomend youto turn them up a bit.
otherwise you wont be able to see the road at all. this wont bother oncoming cars.

Am talking from my own experience.

 

[boostnhard]

but we both did the housing swap with BMW or Acura Projectors.[/QUOTE]


In the other hand thats a fraekin good idea. Ill do this when get a chance.

 

[InfiniteGSX]

isnt it simpler to just take the plug from you stock head lamp, solder the HIDs red to black on the plug and the black on the HIDs the the green on the plug?Then you just plug them in your stock location. This will allow you to turn the HIDs on with the stock headlamp switch.

And since your getting cheapo ebay headlamp, i bet youll see a sticker that says "HID balb not allowed". Having this in mind I recomend youto turn them up a bit.
otherwise you wont be able to see the road at all. this wont bother oncoming cars.

Am talking from my own experience.

uhm, your kidding right? ... I was just telling him to touch the red wire to the battery to show him that his lights will turn on cause those two wires were the power wires. Not to tell him to fully wire his headlights directly to his battery. You wire that red wire into the green wire on your low beams, and it would be best to bolt that wire to the chassis! Trust me on that one! If not, you can just wire it into the ground... and it will work and you might not notice any difference, but its just a full 100% ground with no distortion from the high beams.

 

[InfiniteGSX]

but we both did the housing swap with BMW or Acura Projectors.

In the other hand thats a fraekin good idea. Ill do this when get a chance.

If your just into looks, dont do this. The cheapo projectors will work fine with the HID's for just looks. But if you actually bought the HID's for peak visibility, yeah do this! You can do it cheap by going to a junk yard and getting some projectors from a daewoo... they are 9006 socket tho... Or you can do it the right way, search for a wrecked bmw, acura, lexus.. highly doubtful you'll find one... so Ebay is your friend!

Now that I think about it... He allready spent the money to buy HID's with a H1 base! It wont work properly! He'll have to buy another set for either 9006 if he does the non HID projectors, or actual D2S bulbs if he gets some Beemer proj... damn too much talking for me!

If you do this, you could allways just shove the HID into your High beams since they take a H1 also... They will be bright and look good... ususaly high beams use 55w or so... instead of 35w. But since they are HID, they will work out still.

 

[SharpHID]

Hey man!
I responded to your email. Let's get this thing working. Don't connect the kit to the battery - you'll never get the lights to turn off. I sell a special battery harness if you want that kind of setup but you won't be needing that.

 

[Clay]

Comments noted. Future plans involve getting another projector, haven't decided which yet. Still have to wire up the headlights, so pics tomorrow, if everything goes well.

**Hey Sharp, here is the pic you asked in the email. OEM headlight plug wire colors are red, red w/ black stripe, and black.

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[InfiniteGSX]

Hey man!
I responded to your email. Let's get this thing working. Don't connect the kit to the battery - you'll never get the lights to turn off. I sell a special battery harness if you want that kind of setup but you won't be needing that.

Once again, I wasn't telling him to hook the kit up directly to the battery damnit! I said for him to touch it to the battery so he would see that those are the wires for turning on the headlights! ... common guys!

 

[InfiniteGSX]

Comments noted. Future plans involve getting another projector, haven't decided which yet. Still have to wire up the headlights, so pics tomorrow, if everything goes well.

**Hey Sharp, here is the pic you asked in the email. OEM headlight plug wire colors are red, red w/ black stripe, and black.

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you need to look at your stock headlights... look at the plug and see which wire goes to your low beams, and which to your high... And if your going to wire it up like that, ahh hell I'm going to shut up!

 

[Clay]

Just rewired the ballast power wire to the oem plug and the bulb came on, thxs! If I'm going to wire it that way . . . ? Whats wrong with that way? Your making me paranoid

 

[SharpHID]

The ballasts need to wire directly to the wires that connect to the original bulb, not the actual headlight. The headlight wire harness has three wires so you can can use your lowbeams and your highs or your original headlight was a hi/lo setup in one bulb. The ballasts are just going on the low beams are will be wired inside of the headlight housing to the bulb wires. They technically are plug and play but as this is an aftermarket headlight they don't appear to be that way. You may have to splice them. So in your picture you want to wire them to your "headlight power wire" and hopefully there are two!

 

[SharpHID]

Once again, I wasn't telling him to hook the kit up directly to the battery damnit! I said for him to touch it to the battery so he would see that those are the wires for turning on the headlights! ... common guys!

I figured as much but just didn't want to get people confused. I had no doubts the kit would light up.

 

[InfiniteGSX]

Yeah and I just noticed that that wire harness I was describing on the stock headlight, is allready choped up in that picture... I was going to respond to say nevermind but my internet died for some reason.

Clay, There is nothing wrong with directly wireing them. I was just simply saying. Plus, if you use that harness from your stock headlights that I see in that image you took, you can unplug the HID's! Instead of them being crimped into your harness! The reason I said to bolt the ground to the chassis, is just because its a cleaner ground. There's nothing wrong with directly wireing it to the ground on the harness. Its just that your high beam also uses that same ground... so in the long run, and its something you might not notice, the headlights would probably run better if directly grounded to the chassis. Thats what I was planning on doing with my HID's... but I got a kit that just snapped right into the stock 9006 Plug located inside the stock headlights... it sucks having to gut stock headlights for that harness!

 

[SharpHID]

It does seem strange that the kit I sold him won't plug right in. I am not familiar but are you guys saying you had to already splice the wiring with this headlight upgrade just to get an H3 halogen to work?