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Lyon said:

Rob, I'd love to see your HID set up for the headlights. Our cherokees like many others have the sucky stock headlamp system. We were going to rewire the entire light system with relays but I'm up for something a little easier. Especially with the cold weather coming. I've seen the plug and play HID set ups. Is this what you have?

As far as my set up, I only have the stock headlights and the Delta Wrangler bumper lights. Those Deltas light up something fierce but I don't like to run them all the time. I'd love to get the headlights looking a little nicer. The only time I took pics of the lights was when I tried out the Liberty light bar on it so those pics don't count. :rofl:

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The HID system that i have for the stock lights or OEM Nissan 350z ballast rewired and retrofitted to work with the aftermarkert hi/lo bi xenon with a relay workin the whole thing for each light. There some ppl who have the pnp setup but either have no hi beam or a halogen hi beam. Ima do a wright up on how to have hi/lo beam HID's in our jeeps. Ill say this, the bi-xenon systems they have for h4 lights isnt that good and the lights flicker really bad.

For my HID spot lights, its a pnp set that i retrofitted with longer leads for the bubls. They run off a regular toggle switch but are tapped to the stock lights with a relay so i can have them turn on only when the parkin lights are turned on. The yellow drivin lights are tappen into the OEM fog light switc and have a relay. All my lights are fused so i have no type of surge goin thru the system. Like i said ill post up a thread on all the lights soon. As of now i got a small diagram on how to do the hi/lo HID setup so u can use the hi beam function to let ppl pass.

Here is a mock up diagram of how to have hi/lo beam functionon the xj. Note what when you have the lo beams on, engagin he hi beams will not make the light brighter but keep the light on. It will move the bulb back. If usin oem bulbs, this function just keeps the light on in both lo n hi.

Finally woke up and tore out one of my systems from my jeep. The pics are small but ill give explanations on them.

Here is the whole system, the wirein is messy but i havent had time to redo the whole system nor do i have the funding to get the parts either.



Here is the Nissan OEM ballast retro fitted with a 9006 male plug and longer leads for the bulb plug. You dont have to make longer leads if you use either an OEM ballast or aftermarket on, this was done if u only use OEM bulbs with H4 retrofit kit. You can use any other style ballas such as Toyota or Audi but they will all have this style bulb connectot. Aftermarket ones have 2 corespondin plugs to use.



Here is the aftermarket plug i made to work. It was elongated to work with OEM ballast that have short bulb connectors. Note the plugs at the end of the harness, these are the same style plugs that most aftermarket system use for HID's.



Here is the relay harness that i made to work with the light. I choose to do a harness per light since i feel it is safer and also i havent had an issue doin it like this before. Most bi-xenon kits us a harness that uses only one headlight plug to run the system. Ive run this system but have noticed that the power output was diminished and the lights had issues flickerin or turnin on.

Here are the plugs that do all the work, the H4 plug and the bi-xenon acutuator plug.



Here is the back side of the H4 plug, notice that the ground has 2 wires and both lo and hi have a single wire and a diode between both wires. This is what keeps the HID bulb on when goin from lo to hi. On an OEM HID bulb it jst keeps the bulb from tunin off. On a bi-xenon bulb it does the same as to and OEM bulb but also activates the Actuator to pull back the bulb.



This is the plug that goes to the HID ballast. Its 2 wires blk goin to ground and red goin to 87 on the relay



Here is the relay with the red wire or singnal in wire from the H4 plug goin to 86 on the relay and the other red wire or signal out goin to 87 on the relay



Everyone knows how the relay looks like, well here is another pic wit the fuse included. Note this is the system for the d/s of the jeep hence the long power feed.

Here is the ever popular aftermarket bi-xenon bulb. Real bi-xenon systems are actually and OEM bulb in a projector housin that has a flap that actuates the hi/lo feature.



Close up look of the bulb in both lo and hi. Its not much that the bulb moves but in the H4 housing, it has the restrictors needed to notice the hi/lo feature.

Lo



Hi



Here is the H4 housin that the bulb clips on to. Its a fairly simple design and comes wit restrictors already.



Here is the same bulb wit the H4 housing. It comes detachable since this same bulb works with 9004, H13, and any other dual filament bulb style vehicles.

Here is the pic of the H4 conversion head lamp. The H4 conversion housing is already installed, since the bulb is so much bigger its required to be in 2 peices.



Here it is with the bi-xenon bulb installed, it simply locks right in.



Here is the same housing using a home made H4 retrofit for use on an oem Osram HID bulb





Another pic using a Philips OEM buld and corespondin H4 retrofit.