I bought a retrofit set of HID off a member here and now the Controller has died.

Can I dirrectly wire them to the GE? Eg: Halo - marker light, low beam to lights + power, and high beam to high beam + relay?

Does the controller do anything other than distribute the power to each function?

 

That depends on the HID setup. And what "controller" are you talking about.

HIDs require one thing for sure, a ballast. The ballast pumps a HUGE initial charge to "spark" the HID to life. The HID needs it because it has to have a spark strong enough to cross the gap from one pole to the next AND vaporize enough of the metallic "salts" inside. These salts are basically metallic bits and they help with the actual flow of electricity (electricity flows easier on or bouncing off metal than just through air).

HIDs sometimes "need" a second thing, a relay. The relay doesn't just distribute power, it actually draws power from somewhere else (directly from the battery or a second, but more powerful power line). Needed if the headlight harness isn't cutting it. With a relay, the harness is used as a signal to trigger the relay.

So, again I ask, what is the controller? If it is indeed, separate from the first two... then, maybe.

If I'm not mistaken, the Halo should be using LEDs... do you have a halogen marker bulb in place also? If not, the controller could possibly act as a load for the LEDs if it is needed.

There's probably a bunch of other questions... so the answer is... maybe. You need to provide a pic and some more info if you have it.

Better yet... ask the person you bought it from. If they don't know... then maybe someone else made it for them, then ask THOSE people.

 

I rewired yesterday, the Balast to low beam power and ground from headlights, the same way a plug + play setup is done.

The High beam cutoff is a little harder, like Goobers said, I used a relay so when the high beam power come on in the cars harness it keeps the low beam power on and adds power to the cutoff actuator. (Which was a bitch to find in th emess of wiring from the original "controller" harness.)

The Halo's are unfortunatly (Or not really so unfortunatly) dead for good, the controller, I would suspect, has a balast in it for the tube style halo's, and so with the melted controller, no halo. I do have one controller left, and it has occured to me that I may be able to run both halo from one balast; but that would require alot more wiring and effort which I will not do since I don't care for the halo's anyway.

Just an update if anyone uses the search function in the future, cuase I hate finding old posts with no resolution to the posted problem!