My Hellas stopped working and I don't know why.

[amgarrety]

I've tried literally everything to get them to work again. The just randomly stopped working one night, and for the past 3 or so weeks, I've been trying to solve the problem.

Basically, I have a fused wire running from my battery to another wire, which splits the current for each light. This is the black wire pictured below:
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The red connection on the left is from the battery. The two red connections on the right are to the lights. It is important to note that those two red connections on the right are the last place I have my 12V current. After that it is lost.

From that black wire, those red connections plug in to the positive wire of my lights, which are the red/purple wire pictured here:
https://sl-i.net/FORUM/images/imported/2012/03/6985241953_779e54553d_b-1.jpg

And the yellow/black wire goes directly to a ground. Simple, right?

Before I go into the rest of this, I should say I rewired EVERYTHING. Every bit of wire for these lights is new as a result of me trying to get these lights to work, and extra care has been taken to assure there are no problems with my wiring.

So, if both lights are unplugged completely, the black wire shows a 12V reading. If I plug in one light, both power and ground, and then read the other connector, I get nothing. Same goes if I switch lights. My bulbs are good and i've tried replacing them anyway with no luck. It should go without saying because I have a voltage near the light, but my fuse is perfectly fine. I know my grounds are fine because they are the same grounds i've been using for months, but just to be sure, i've also tried grounding to multiple other places with no luck.

So after completely rewiring the system and trying new bulbs, i've still had no luck. I just can't figure it out. Can someone please offer any help? Thanks.

[Legacy89]

You do run this setup with a Relay right?
All connectors in the right order?
Is there any wear/tear on the wires?

When i used aux lights i got both the ground and remotepower from the stock harness. +12v from the battery and two separate leads out to the lights. And 2 short ground wires.
30 - To battery
86 - To +12v highbeam
85 - To Ground at highbeam
87 - To the lights
This is the setup i know works for our cars.

[amgarrety]

The setup I was using worked for a good 5 or 6 months. It was all wired correctly, the way you described it. I rewired everything to eliminate the possibility of tears or bad connections.

I normally use a relay but just to test I've been going directly from the battery to the lights, which is fine, because that's what happened with the relay and the hi beams flicked on. I just removed the relay so I wouldn't have to keep turning my high beams on.

[Legacy89]

Hmmm, how is the ground inside the lights?

Have you tested the resitance trough the lights? May be a bad connection between bulb and ground inside.

[amgarrety]

My connections inside my lights are fine. They are clean and tight. I tested the resistance through my lights and they seemed fine, but looking back, I don't know if I trust how I read that. I did that test real fast and may not have switched to the right setting. I'll probably do that again. But neither light works individually, and to have them both fail at exactly the same time confuses me.

[Legacy89]

Then the problem is in the wiring somewhere.
If you have current on the end of the black wires then the problem is in your multicolored wires, either the ground or positive side.
Have you tried connecting just the lamp to the battery?
That would tell if the wires and bulbs are all okey.

[amgarrety]

You mean right from the battery to the light? Thats practically how I have it set up now, except I'm grounding to the chassis instead of the battery.

The problem has to be in the light. There is almost no other explanation at this point.

[04Legacy]

Any chance that one of your wires is bad??

[amgarrety]

Nah, I replaced them all.

I think I might have narrowed down the problem now after talking to Legacy89 on facebook.

[Legacy89]

Found the problem yet?

[amgarrety]

I just figured it out about 15 minutes ago.

My problem wasn't voltage, which explained why I was getting a constant 12v through the entire circuit. It was my amperage. I forgot about a small length of wire that I used to bridge a gap which was a smaller gauge than the rest of the wire. I replaced that with larger gauge wire and I have light!

[Legacy89]

Always the little things :P
On my first setup i used 2.5mm2 kable troughout the headlightsystem.