Ground is shared by everything. All brown wires are good and all other lamps work. Three prong bulb with shared ground and one for each low and high. Wiring should not be dorked, as I had it all working for months.
clay On Feb 20, 2013, at 11:34 PM, Max Dillon wrote: > Probably something in the euro light is dorked, if you didn't make a mistake > in your wiring. Bad connector? > > Either the low beam element is not getting power (most likely) or ground. > > Is the ground shared with high beam? That would eliminate half the potential > problems. > > -- > Max Dillon > Charleston SC > '95 E300, '87 300TD, '73 Balboa 20 > > clay monroe <redgh...@comcast.net> wrote: > >> LED and Euro were concurrent. Prior DOT lights worked, change from >> dual 4 port to single 6 port to handle the headlights and markers was >> soldered and tug tested, then continuity tested. Bulb failure follows >> the location, no matter the three bulbs used. >> >> clay >> >> On Feb 19, 2013, at 12:56 PM, Max Dillon wrote: >> >>> Last change you made was the LED light replacements, and the low >> beams worked in the euro fixtures before? Double check your work, look >> at ground side as well as power. >>> >>> Did you try swapping the driver and passenger halogen bulbs to see if >> the problem follows? >>> >>> -- >>> Max Dillon >>> Charleston SC >>> '95 E300, '87 300TD, '73 Balboa 20 >>> >>> clay monroe <redgh...@comcast.net> wrote: >>> >>>> 450SL is being difficult. Blind in one eye. >>>> >>>> Upgraded headlights to euro and for the first few months, the low >> beams >>>> worked fine. Changed out other bulbs for LED, but the headlights >> are >>>> standard halogens. it took a few hours to get the wiring harness >>>> figured out to make all the proper connections from the two DOT hook >>>> ups. >>>> >>>> ANYWAY, the high beams work, the passenger side lows work, but the >>>> driver side low is not behaving. I check the fuse and swapped in a >> new >>>> one, but still no light. Halogen got swapped out, and still not >> good. >>>> I jumped connectors from the wire harness to the bulb, but only get >>>> high beams. What am I missing? >>>> >>>> >>>> clay >>>> >>>> >>>> 1974 450sl - Frosch - Two tone green >>>> 1972 220D - Gump - She is green, simple and ran >>>> 1995 E300D - Cleo - Used by the Queen of Denial >>>> POS 1987 SDL - Beware Nigerian Scammers >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________ >>>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>>> For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com >>>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>>> >>>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
