Bulb out” warning light shines up in the dash – now what?
Generally, a quality HID setup that originally came with halogen bulbs would use relays to get the power directly from battery. Which would mean that after you install your kit, load will go down from 55W to ~1W on headlight curcuit. This will most likely be recognized as a “bulb out”. There are several generic ways around this and here are some work around suggestions: • Cut off wires that goes to “bulb out detector” unit from headlight. • Remove bulb from dash or the monitor black box itself. Cars have received bulb monitoring during since early 1980s, hence cars have existed with lights since 1910-1920s. A true car enthusiast knows if one or two headlights are lit. • Wire up a separate switch for HID, similar to what you would do with foglamps. • There is solutions out there that will emulate the load of bulbs, but not give any light. That is a waste of energy, why would someone take 150W from the engine, then get 110W out of the alternator, then transform those 110W to heat in a re
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