jdogg
12-20-2006, 09:20 AM
This is taken from the Pelican site, credit for the content goes to Dave Darling and Brad Anders. Hoping someone else might find it as helpful as I did:
OK, so to make this thread useful to more than just myself, here's your easy 4-pin to 5-pin headlight relay guide:
5-pin Relay_______4-pin Relay___________Wire Colors
56b <------------------ F <-------------------- White
S <--------------------- S <------------------- Yellow/Red
56a <------------------ 56a <----------------- Yellow
56 <------------------- 56 <------------------ Red/White
| (jumper wire)
30
And to avoid having to do any soldering or stuff, Radio Shack has piggyback connectors that convert terminals from 1 prong to 2 prong, you can stick one of those on pin 56 to connect your jumper from pin 30, and still have a prong free for the wire from the harness.
Personally, I found the 5-pin relay pin positions and spacing to be very tight. There are three kinds of piggyback connectors - one that looks like a "Y", another that looks like a "T" with the top two prongs folded parallel, and a third that has one "high/low" prongs. I took two of the "high/low" connectors, broke off the low prongs, and used them to extend the height of two of the tightly spaced pins on the relay to make connections easier.
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Brad Anders
Yellow/Red -> "S"
Red/White -> "56"
White -> "F"
Yellow -> "56a"
Those are from this diagram here:
http://www.pelicanparts.com/914/par...lectric_74B.jpg
Look for the headlight dimmer relay (component "J" in the diagram) and look at the little numbers next to where the wires connect to "J". Those are the terminal numbers that Brad refers to.
--DD
OK, so to make this thread useful to more than just myself, here's your easy 4-pin to 5-pin headlight relay guide:
5-pin Relay_______4-pin Relay___________Wire Colors
56b <------------------ F <-------------------- White
S <--------------------- S <------------------- Yellow/Red
56a <------------------ 56a <----------------- Yellow
56 <------------------- 56 <------------------ Red/White
| (jumper wire)
30
And to avoid having to do any soldering or stuff, Radio Shack has piggyback connectors that convert terminals from 1 prong to 2 prong, you can stick one of those on pin 56 to connect your jumper from pin 30, and still have a prong free for the wire from the harness.
Personally, I found the 5-pin relay pin positions and spacing to be very tight. There are three kinds of piggyback connectors - one that looks like a "Y", another that looks like a "T" with the top two prongs folded parallel, and a third that has one "high/low" prongs. I took two of the "high/low" connectors, broke off the low prongs, and used them to extend the height of two of the tightly spaced pins on the relay to make connections easier.
__________________
Brad Anders
Yellow/Red -> "S"
Red/White -> "56"
White -> "F"
Yellow -> "56a"
Those are from this diagram here:
http://www.pelicanparts.com/914/par...lectric_74B.jpg
Look for the headlight dimmer relay (component "J" in the diagram) and look at the little numbers next to where the wires connect to "J". Those are the terminal numbers that Brad refers to.
--DD