Aux Lighting (Hella) Wiring Question

[DanW]

Ok, I'm switching from a small LED light bar that is good, but frankly gets overpowered by the factory LED brights. I'm going with these Hella 5000 Black Magic incandescent driving lights as cheap insurance against my headlights icing over.

I just have a little question. I'm used to high end lighting, like Rigid Industries, which come with excellent wiring, switches, and diagrams, so I'm easily able to patch them into the auxillary switches in the JL. The diagram and wiring switch setup that came with these Hellas might as well be written in Greek. I just need to know which of these is power and which is ground. The rest will be easy, as I just get some new wire, splice the two together, ground it and power it to the Aux 1 wire. I think it is probably obviously the black wire that is ground, but I wanted to be sure and put it to the resident electrical experts here.

I'll post up a pic when I get these dudes together. I think they'll look great and be an excellent backup to the main headlights.

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[mwilk012]

It doesn't matter.

 

[DanW]

It doesn't matter.

Thanks.

I wired it up and it worked fine. I used blue as power and black as ground. They aren't as bright as LED's, but they'll get the job done if I have a freeze over. I only had that happen once on my JK. It was in a blizzard in Vail that closed I70 after I was already on it. I was on my way back from Moab. My TruckLite LED headlights froze over. Fortunately, the fog lights were still factory incandescents. They were barely adequate, but without them, I'd have been in some real trouble. That's the only time I've experienced a freeze over with LED's, but once is enough. These Hellas will be a couple steps better than the JK's fogs, so I should be good to go if it happens.

I'll post pics as soon as my garage is cleaned up.

 

[DanW]

Here they are! I'll also post in the thread on what you did to your JL today.

 

[DanW]

Funny....I just noticed they mirrored themselves in the second picture. Lol!

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