Working my way through my project and I'm at the stage where I'm trimming all my wires to length and crimping terminals on etc.
This is a full rewire using aftermarket lights and switches.
My headlight has 3 wires, ground, low beam and high beam. When lights are off and I hit the flasher button it's bringing on my tail light, the tail light and low beam are fed off the same 12v.
12v from the main beam is going back up the low beam wire and switching my tail light on. So I installed a diode on my low beam wire so current can only go one way and it's worked but on testing it with the low beam on as if riding at night, within 30seconds the diode gets bloody hot and I'm worried it may melt through the heat shrink and cause issues.
Any one used diodes before, is this heat normal? Can I get a bigger diode to stay cooler or can I wire it differently? Will confirm what diode I've used later but according to Google and multiple Internet forum sources the diode I bought was upto the job.
Not overly confident with electrical speak, Google got me this far, this is one of 3 wiring gremlins that I have to sort so looking for advice.
This is a full rewire using aftermarket lights and switches.
My headlight has 3 wires, ground, low beam and high beam. When lights are off and I hit the flasher button it's bringing on my tail light, the tail light and low beam are fed off the same 12v.
12v from the main beam is going back up the low beam wire and switching my tail light on. So I installed a diode on my low beam wire so current can only go one way and it's worked but on testing it with the low beam on as if riding at night, within 30seconds the diode gets bloody hot and I'm worried it may melt through the heat shrink and cause issues.
Any one used diodes before, is this heat normal? Can I get a bigger diode to stay cooler or can I wire it differently? Will confirm what diode I've used later but according to Google and multiple Internet forum sources the diode I bought was upto the job.
Not overly confident with electrical speak, Google got me this far, this is one of 3 wiring gremlins that I have to sort so looking for advice.