Issue wiring in DRL kit

[geraintthomas]

For the time being, I'm going to wire my new DRL lights to run as normal parking/side lights. It'll literally be a case of running the side light wires to these, rather than a bulb.

But I have an issue. It doesn't work.

Attaching the positive & negative of the DRL wire onto a 9v battery shows that they work fine. So in the headlight assembly, you have that small brown plug that you put a small bulb into. Well I made an adapter that plugs into this, which gives you the positive & negative wires as spade connectors. I attached these onto the DRL wire, turned them on, and nothing. They don't illuminate.

I put a standard 501 W5W bulb back into the holder, and it works fine. It just doesn't want to illuminate my DRL lights.

The DRL lights won't illuminate if the voltage is too low. I'm guessing the side light positive wire inside the headlamp is lower than 12v. Can I have someone confirm this please?

If so, is the feed that goes into the fog light bulb in the headlamp assembly a 12v feed? Because I'll probably do the front fog light DRL 'fuse jumper' hack, and just plug the DRL's into them, rather than the bulbs. Nice and easy.

Cheers!