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Originally Posted by Bach415
The guide you are using is for the JDM headlights. They have 7 pins opposed to the 6 pins in the monogram headlights. The 7th pin the JDM headlights is to get the constant 12V for the LED strip (hence the tapping into the live wire from DRL resistor in source #1). If I recall properly, the base headlights have the DRL wire within the 6 pin harness (which also bypasses the resistor when high beam is activated). You should be able to just re-pin the headlight harness so the DRL is with LED strip wire of the headlight. When your e-brake is down, then it will activate the LED strip. When you turn on the headlights, the strip will disappear but low beams will be on. If you want the strip w/ the low beam, you might need to add a wire with a resistor from low beam to the DRL (engine harness side). The high beam will still be within the LED strip unfortunately as the DRL on base FRS also acts as a high beam IIRC.
Also please correct me if I am wrong about what I said.
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I believe the portion I highlighted in
RED is incorrect.
There are only six pins on the FRS Base Headlight Power Connector:
- HiBeam+
- HiBeam GND
- LowBeam +
- LowBeam GND
- Parking +
- Parking GND
HiBeam + is used for DRL power in the FRS. There are no dedicated "DRL" sources. You are probably thinking of the Parking +. It doesn't function as DRL: it only comes on during Parking or Low Beam (i.e. night-time modes). Like you mentioned, if you plug HiBeam+ right into the LED Bar, you can get DRL to work while giving up actual high beam functionality.
Jumping the resistor with
a 7th custom wire is required on any version of the headlights (Euro, JDM, or USDM) if you want the DRL LED Bar, because as seen above there is no dedicated DRL source from the harness. Additionally, going through the resistor source also enables you to take advantage of the wiring for actual DRL functionality (e.g. only on with engine, turns off with ebrake).
Therein lies the problem: power for the resistor jumping circuit comes from HiBeam GND (wired in series), after having passed through the headlight. (This is how DRL dimming for stock headlights works on FRS base models). This would be an issue no matter what version of the headlights you have if applying to a base model FRS.