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hey guys basically been working in my quadlight conversion all day everything was going well all lights working high beam main beam etc sidelights and indicators so i thought great job done

then i turned my lights on and nothing , so ive been running around all evenin with a multimeter and all the conections have continuity bar the hids and theres no power from the hids ( the lil black box connected to battery)

my high beam , sidelights etc still work so WTF

im thinking maybe the hids have died , so i was wondering if i use the hid bulb but cut the ends off n wire it to earth and the main beam wire on the car will it work as a normal bulb ?

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Is that the transformer thing that's died? I don't think you can use them as normal because HIDs need 1000s of Volts to run which is what that transformer thingy does. Besides it won't pass MOT with HIDs now :(

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