Ebay 'projector' headlights, what're the plugs and bulbs? - Toyota Nation Forum : Toyota Car and Truck Forums

Piloter · 07-28-2010, 05:19 PM

So it's that time again, time to do something new with headlights. Putting the projectors in will mean I've had all three styles of aftermarket headlight installed at one point or another--and also leave me with a set of H4 headlights and working dual-beam relays, if anybody wants them PM me and we'll talk--but what bulbs do these projectors take? I've seen scattered references to them using a H1 bulb but nothing I'd consider canonical.

If anybody's had experience with the wiring of these, please chime in.

Rip The E Brake · 07-28-2010, 09:35 PM

Uh, pics of the headlights?

Piloter · 07-28-2010, 09:44 PM

Not entirely sure what I'll wind up doing with the outside set...fog lights? DRLs? An extra low-beam oomph, perhaps. I'm also not thrilled about the spider-eye look but who knows...they're suitable for eventual HID projector retrofitting, which is the most output I'm gonna ever get short of a Group B Stratos-esque lightbar.

***Kiwi-Corolla*** · 07-29-2010, 12:18 AM

Topnotch has those headlights installed on his Corolla. Perhaps he'll chime in at some stage. He posted pics in this thread:

Corolla #2 (resurrection) - New pics on page 4 and video on page 3

topnotch · 07-29-2010, 06:58 PM

well i havent done the wiring to these lights. i had gotten someone with experience with those lights....seeing all the wires and all. ther is another member here altho i havent seen him online for a while goldcorolla also have these lights and if my memory serves me right i think he wired those lights himself on cardomain.com so i guess you can check out his page or if your a member ther pm him.

Piloter · 07-29-2010, 08:29 PM

Off in experimental territory again, eh? I'll take pictures and write up what I find for the sake of us TNers, then, as always.

midnightmach · 07-30-2010, 12:38 PM

I think someone said they take an H1 bulb

pnyk33 · 07-30-2010, 12:44 PM

i like the 1 peace headlights . i`m planning on getting these next........

Rip The E Brake · 07-30-2010, 08:48 PM

those are H4 for sure.

Piloter · 07-30-2010, 09:50 PM

H4 wouldn't make sense, though, not with two separate enclosures. That would be awesome, though. Low beams would be a H1, low of the H4, and whatever the outside lights fit... lights like that, you could go poach nightcrawlers just about anywhere.

Everything's shipped (got the smoked bumper lights as well) and should get here on the 3rd, I'll have more info then.

Rip The E Brake · 08-01-2010, 12:41 AM

Uhm. I had a pair of those. H4 Lows, 9006/4 High. 99% sure.

Piloter · 08-01-2010, 08:22 PM

How the hell did you wire it to get everything coming on? Right now I've got a set of homemade relays that turn on low or high of my H4s based on the output to the stock bulb sockets...Toyota was lovely enough to give us a negative-switched low and a positive-switched high, making the entire rigamarole necessary.

The only thing I can think of is to set up yet ANOTHER relay, normally closed, that uses the output of the first relay to the high terminal on the H4 as the control circuit and feeds voltage to the 9005 socket straight from the battery (with a fuse) once that control circuit is completed.

Otherwise you're trying to put the full load of a high-beam H4 AND another 55/65 watts from the extra 9005 on the stock harness, and doubling wattage = meltage.

Rip The E Brake · 08-02-2010, 11:02 AM

You just wire them up? I never had any problems. I didn't use relays either. My headlights came with H4 jumper sockets that matched up with the stock harness.

Didn't need relays either.

The lights are made with HID's in mind... not running regular bulbs.

topnotch · 08-02-2010, 11:34 AM

correct the guy who installed mine didnt use any relays he just wired them up and set mine that the low beams will stay on when i swicthed to high beams and just like the JDM headlights... when the weather holds up am gonna take out one the lights to understand how exactly he wired them up and let you know how he did it.

Piloter · 08-02-2010, 06:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Rip The E Brake

You just wire them up? I never had any problems. I didn't use relays either. My headlights came with H4 jumper sockets that matched up with the stock harness.

Didn't need relays either.

The lights are made with HID's in mind... not running regular bulbs.

Iiiiiinteresting. Did you ever try them with just regular bulbs? I, uh, am a little short on funds to convert to proper projectors (D2S) /HIDs at the moment, so I may have to improvise.