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KC Hilite Switch is backwards. Please Help!

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Old Jun 4, 2012 | 10:09 PM
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Default KC Hilite Switch is backwards. Please Help!

I finished installing my KC Hilite Daylighters and flipped the switch and it seems to be working backwards. The green light comes on when my Daylighters are off and turns off when the KC lights are on. It is simply operating opposite of what it should. Can I just swap the ground and power wires to fix it? I want to make sure there isn't something weird with a parallel vs series circuit making this happen and wanted am looking for input before I tore my dash apart again to get to the back of the switch. Currently it is wired exactly like the KC diagram shows. Ground on the top prong. Middle wire to my relay. Bottom wire to 12v power/ battery. Thanks for your help!

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Old Jun 5, 2012 | 01:48 AM
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Originally Posted by jimmiePoison
I finished installing my KC Hilite Daylighters and flipped the switch and it seems to be working backwards. The green light comes on when my Daylighters are off and turns off when the KC lights are on. It is simply operating opposite of what it should. Can I just swap the ground and power wires to fix it? I want to make sure there isn't something weird with a parallel vs series circuit making this happen and wanted am looking for input before I tore my dash apart again to get to the back of the switch. Currently it is wired exactly like the KC diagram shows. Ground on the top prong. Middle wire to my relay. Bottom wire to 12v power/ battery. Thanks for your help!
Assuming that your ground is in the correct location, I wouldn't recommend swapping it. Try swapping the other two.
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Old Jun 5, 2012 | 10:38 PM
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I was using a Napa auto parts 5 pin relay. The harness that plugged into it had the yellow wire running into 87A instead of 30 into the relay. When I purchased it I was told the yellow ran into the 30 pin which is standard but upon further investigation, that was not the case. Swapped the yellow wire with the white wire which was actually running into 30 and everything worked perfectly.
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