HID Relay Buzzing

[thoss29]

I sent this same question to Jeremy at retro but I wanted to see if anyone here had a suggestion while my truck is still apart. Here's the email I sent him:

Headlights have been working great for a couple months now. Last night I could hear a buzzing coming from the relay. Lights were both on though and I decided to drive the rest of the way home. A few minutes later I could see flickering and the passenger side shut off.... The buzz continued. After being off for awhile the light came back on. Today I pulled the truck apart and checked all wiring and write brushed all grounds. Still the same symptoms. Another interesting thing that I can't make sense of is that both resistor packs are cold. They never do warm up. Maybe unrelated, I don't know. Thanks in advance for your help....

 

[Talon_66]

Relay is going bad, replace it

 

[thoss29]

Ugh, I love how bright these lights are and how they look but I'm seriously about to go back to stock...

 

[thoss29]

And no buzzing or flicker if the truck is not running

 

[Big D Z]

I sent this same question to Jeremy at retro but I wanted to see if anyone here had a suggestion while my truck is still apart. Here's the email I sent him:

Headlights have been working great for a couple months now. Last night I could hear a buzzing coming from the relay. Lights were both on though and I decided to drive the rest of the way home. A few minutes later I could see flickering and the passenger side shut off.... The buzz continued. After being off for awhile the light came back on. Today I pulled the truck apart and checked all wiring and write brushed all grounds. Still the same symptoms. Another interesting thing that I can't make sense of is that both resistor packs are cold. They never do warm up. Maybe unrelated, I don't know. Thanks in advance for your help....

Wow, that is EXACTLY the same scenario I'm dealing with right now down to the cold resistors.

Did you ever solve the issue?

 

[thoss29]

I unplugged them and flipped the plug 180°. I'll see if I still have the email he sent to see exactly which plug I flipped

 

[thoss29]

Here was his response to the email I sent. I just copied what he wrote:

Weird...........lets try this. The capacitor might have gone, but lets test it!

Unplug this plug, flip it over 180 degrees, plug it back in. Any change?

 

[Big D Z]

Cool. I'll look into that.

 

[Big D Z]

Bingo....that seems to have fixed the issue. Resistors get hot now and no more buzzing.

 

[thoss29]

Nice. Glad I could help, I know these lights can be frustrating