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So right now you get high beam and driving lights on or off togther, right? Last car I had with driving lights I found places where I liked to have high-beam only. Especially when using the high beam flasher signal, so I had a separate switch for the driving lights. BTW the D-lights were great for west Texas highway trips.
Whether you use one relay or two is your call. The problem is that the wire from the battery through the headlight switch to the headlights now carries the full current. That may be OK for just the headlights, but adding the draw for the D-lights will - as you saw - overheat things.
Plus, you get a voltage drop and therefore less than maximum light output.
The high beams are not incorporated into the bulb failure warning system. You could mount one relay under the hood, near to the stepping relay rail over by the battery. Tap into the high beam wire to relay terminal #85, grond #86, that will do the coil. Then run the #10 wire from the battery to the relay #30 and from #87 or #87b to both D-lights. Stick in an in-line 10amp fuse, too.
The relays I mentioned in the earlier post have a standard terminal number ID system. The coil is between #85 and #86. The armature is #30, and it contacts #87 or #87b when closed, #87a when open. Relays with only 4 terminals do not have the normally open contact, but you don't need that here.
Good Luck,
Bob
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