Burning up HID relays?

[Coherent]

Nevermind I figured it out.

 

[Trippen Out]

that's nice. instead of deleting the post how about leaving the question and then posting the resolve so we can all learn from it. that would be swell

 

[Frogman]

I'm thinking he wired the relays up incorrectly. I remember the original post, and from his description, the relays were blowing out. No effing way that could happen on such little draw unless you wire the relay up incorrectly.

 

[Coherent]

Long story short I have a 98 that came with HIDs and they ran off 80VDC rather than 12V(which I expected) and had a 'pre-ballast' which was basically a voltage multiplier. I didn't know about it and thought that I'd just wire up the stock headlamp wires to the relay like you'd do on like 99% of other cars. As a result I fried like 2 relays before figuring it out. Anyway I have it all done now with the HID's and relay mounted and working properly. I'll post some pics tonight.

TLDR version=Make sure you take out the voltage multiplier when putting aftermarket HIDs on a 97-98 mark VIII.