Pop-up headlights - a dilema

[macmattom]

<font face="Comic Sans MS"></font id="Comic Sans MS"><font size="5"></font id="size5"><font color="blue"></font id="blue"><b></b>[:0]Hi - any advice greatly appreciated on my pop-up headlights. I've refurbished them and in trying out the motors they both worked great - individually [:)]. Then I wired them in together, in series, straight from the battery - only one would work at a time [:(]. Does anybody know if the lights are wired in "in-parallel" when fitted to the car, or is there a more sinister reason mine won't work together [}:)]. Thanks, Mac [?]

[Wayne S]

They have individual circuits with a relay each. The headlight switch effectively switches two circuits on and off at the same time. So in effect when on the car they also only work one at a time but both on their respective circuit.

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Wiring diagram

[Rayjones]

If you wired the two headlamp units together in series across a 12 volt supply they would divide the available voltage between them and effectively only be working on six volts each.

Ray

1980 UK BRG 2L DHC