Oracle fog lights with halo wiring question

[jjs3845]

I was looking inside my wheel wells and reading the install info on installing my Oracle fog lights . I have the white halos.

I’m confused. There’s a diagram on their site showing that you tap into the parking/drl lights and use the parking wire. Each side has 3 wires- I assume ground,DRL, and Parking . The diagram is showing tap into Black and Tan/white on the driver side and black and orange/ white on the passenger.

I would think colors on the web site vary by your monitor. Would be a good idea to also label the colors in the diagram.

Well first off I pulled both sides and on both sides I have black, yellow/white and brown/ white so I would think you would need brown/white and black on one side and yellow/white and black on the other????

Further confusing is their video shows something completely different where you tap into the side markers instead . They have 2 wires and is a no brainer.

Help?

Thanks

Joe

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[cecaa850]

Use a test light to find the wire that has power when you want it to. Tie into that one. Do not puncture the wire to test it. Either back probe the connector if its not a sealed type or unplug it and test it at the pins themselves.

 

[jjs3845]

Use a test light to find the wire that has power when you want it to. Tie into that one. Do not puncture the wire to test it. Either back probe the connector if its not a sealed type or unplug it and test it at the pins themselves.

I figured out the driver side and need to pull the passenger.

My vehicle had white/brown, white/yellow, and black. I used a meter and measured across ground and found 12v off white/ brown when I turn the parking lights on. I pulled the bulb and measured on the prongs in the base.

thanks for the help.

Edit: Oracle- if you read this , your diagram is different than your video. I understand that tapping into different sources will make the halos work differently but for someone relatively unsure it makes things confusing

 

[cecaa850]

I figured out the driver side and need to pull the passenger.

My vehicle had white/brown, white/yellow, and black. I used a meter and measured across ground and found 12v off white/ brown when I turn the parking lights on. I pulled the bulb and measured on the prongs in the base.

thanks for the help.

Edit: Oracle- if you read this , your diagram is different than your video. I understand that tapping into different sources will make the halos work differently but for someone relatively unsure it makes things confusing

Meter or light will give the same info. Glad you figured it out.

 

[jjs3845]

Well I got the fog lights installed. Took me 4 hours - mostly because I was being cautious. I would say 80% of the time spent was clipping and unclipping the 45,000 clips holding the panels to the vehicle. I'm a pro at those now.

I had a few issues but worked through them and one scary moment. It would be nice if Oracle included one extra of each wire tapping piece.

If you have a newer JT and tap into the parking lights for the halos, and have black, white/brown, and white/yellow wires to the fixture, , use the white/brown on both sides - they're the parking lights - I used a meter on them. On the driver's side, when I crimped the male plug for the halos from the light, I didn't crimp it enough and it fell right off. On the process of trying to fix it the insides fell out. Thankfully I had some at the house.

Driver's side:

On the passenger side, in hooking up the halos I had the meter and found the 12 volts on white/brown. Being cautious, I did it again as a double check only to find nothing. Tried 3 times - nothing. Plug the bulb in - nothing. I think crap - I must have shorted something and blew the fuse. Only to find the driver side still working. Now that confused me.

Thought about going to dealer, taking my beating and fix it. Turn the engine over - and both sides work again! Hit it with the meter, white/brown still had 12. Count my blessings and hooked it all up. The crimp on the ground wire for the halos gave me an issue because it wasn't happy about snapping shut - I had to get pliers and squish it with a little more force and hopefully it locked. I used a little electrical tape to hopefully help keep it closed. The passenger side didn't work at first and I had to pull it all apart and run continuity tests with the meter from the wires on the vehicle to the light. I think what the issue was that the male end coming from the halos on light missed the little slot it supposed to slide into for making contact with the tap in the white/brown wire on the vehicle. I unplugged/plugged it back in and volia!! It all worked:

All in all it wasn't difficult, only tedious and time consuming and wanting a neat install using tie wraps. But if you're going to do this to your Jeep, definitely take the air dam off! There's 2 screws underneath and about 10 of those body clips. There's a little male plastic piece from the air dam that goes into the frame and helps hold in the panels where the fog lights are. Removing the air dam makes it so much easier.

Oracle: I would take a look at your instructions and video on the web site - they conflict. the picture on the page shows the parking lights, and thre video tells you to use the side markers. Also, please consider including a spare of each of those connectors; An extra would be a life saver.


Joe

 

[eaglerugby04]

I just wish they had a plug and play adapter to their headlights. seems like such an easy upsell option for even easier use. like I want my fog halos on with my regular.

 

[jjs3845]

I just wish they had a plug and play adapter to their headlights. seems like such an easy upsell option for even easier use. like I want my fog halos on with my regular.

Well you can depending on where you hook them up. If you tie both sides together and run the ground to the ground strap next to the battery on the passenger side then run the hot to fuse F52 - cigar lighter that should should give you 12v when you start the Jeep thus giving you constant halos as far as I can tell. I’m sure there’s more knowledgeable than me here.

 

[eaglerugby04]

Well you can depending on where you hook them up. If you tie both sides together and run the ground to the ground strap next to the battery on the passenger side then run the hot to fuse F52 - cigar lighter that should should give you 12v when you start the Jeep thus giving you constant halos as far as I can tell. I’m sure there’s more knowledgeable than me here.

Yep and thats the plan, it really ended up being me seing its not easy and I would have to measure and run wire. I zip tied off the cords and 6 months later still need to run them, lol. The Halos on the main headlights look great though....

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