Hi,

 

Just bought an illuminated ford badge for the front of the car. Struggled like mad tonight trying to remove the stock badge but finally got there. Everything is almost done but I’m stuck on the wiring.

 

I need to wire 3 different wires to:

 

Day time running light

Headlights

Power

 

Im not sure of the best way to do this so any help is appreciated.

have you go any pictures of the new unit as you should only need power from DRL circuit and an earth in theory.

 

constant earth any metal fixed point near the lamp and power from the DRL so when the DRL is on the badge gets power 

Unless it want's an after ignition live as its power source an earth point and the power from the DRL as a switch (signal wire) to tell it when to go on if it has 3 cables 

I wouldn’t have thought it would need an after ignition supply of its own. It should just tap into the light circuit and earth for safety. There may be a reason why it has two light circuit feeds, but I can’t think of why it would anything other than DRL feed. 

22 hours ago, Edge of Reason said:

I can’t think of why it would anything other than DRL feed. 

Don't the DRL's turn off when the main lights are on? DRL's are usually much brighter for daytime use and so are normally switched off at night! So, that might be why you need two feeds. Both are probably diode fed into the badge light to prevent cross powering the respective circuits.

14 minutes ago, simonb65 said:

Don't the DRL's turn off when the main lights are on? DRL's are usually much brighter for daytime use and so are normally switched off at night! So, that might be why you need two feeds. Both are probably diode fed into the badge light to prevent cross powering the respective circuits.

DRL's dim  at night not switch off.

How many wires does it have? If it's only 2, red and black then all you need to do is to earth the black wire and connect the red wire into your sidelight wire one side or the other.