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My 1999 R6 is draining the battery when I put in both headlight relays in? If I pull the relay out that runs the lowbeams and turn the swutch to lowbeams the battery charges fine, but when I turn the switch to highbeams to use the light at night it drains the battery? What could be causeing this problem?
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limited info generic --test the switch probable failed but since no model this link is the owners manual for e150 and pages 128 --129 tell which fuses are for headlights and multi switch https://www.fordservicecontent.com/Ford_Content/catalog/owner_guides/99ecoog1e.pdf
It is either the light switch or the headlight relay, I would say first go for the relay as it carries the actual load of the lights. It will not be a fuse, the headlights are fused individually.
there is a relay under the hood in the fuse/relay panel called drl, or daytime running lamps, that relay is most likely bad, a good way to tell is switch it with the high beam relay, if they come on you know thats it, if they dont, its the relay for the lowbeams, again switch it with the high beam relay and see.. either way i can tell you for sure one of those two are bad... but most of the time it is the daytime running lamps, or sometimes called driving lights relay. hope this helps you
The switch powers up the coil in the relay thus closing the contact points for your lights to work. Recheck switch for positive shut off and check relay for points sticking together, allowing lights run full time.
Could be the relay for the lowbeams is faulty, if your DRL's are your lowbeams, then your DRL Unit could be bad. Also did you blow a fuse cuz a random surge could blow the fuse
You seem to have a stuck H/lmp relay, Taking out the circuit breaker only disabled part of the electrics,
If you examine the fusebox / Relay housing s (there may be more than one . You should be able to identify suspect relay (it will be warm to touch) . You may need to examine the Running lights / Dimmer H/lamp circuit if it had one. Putting an Amp meter across ( in line not parallel ) the not running vehicle will indicate drain from battery . There might be a slight arc upon connection but it will level out to near zero drain.
perhaps i missed something here... lowbeams and daytime lights are about the same.... be that as it may... the merely obvious thing is that the low beams are burnt out.... next thing would be that the relay for the day time lights could be defective... it's often mounted on the firewall.
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