[TR] headlights dimmer

[Randall]

Kind of hard to say with that description.  It is possible to wire the bulbs wrong, but usually in that case you get a dim yellow glow rather than nothing at all.

I would start by verifying the voltages at the low beam relays with the low beams enabled.  You should find 12v across the relay coil terminals (85 and 86 if you used a modern style relay) (UR to black wires if you kept the original wiring colors).  And 12v from the relay output (the wire to the headlight) to ground.

-- Randall

---- Gary Nafziger <nafzigerg at yahoo.com> wrote: 
> I've installed the tripod 700 headlights (tr-3) with two relays per headlight,
> one each for high and low beams.  This includes a red wire power line from
> starter solenoid on firewall.  Today I tried the dimmer switch for the first
> time with no change.  All I have is brights and the lights go out completely
> when I hit the dimmer.
> I'm checking into the switch but also wonder about the
> red power wire and whether that needs to go through the dimmer switch?  Or is
> this comparable to the front turn signal lights in that I need to reverse the
> wires to the headlights?