need help with relay

[TooSlowMonroe]

Okay...I feel like a complete noob right now.

Trying to add some additional lights to the truck. Am using the original fog light +12V as my trigger. Have +12V from battery. Have ground. Have Relay (Potter & Brumsfield vf4-45f11.)

So:
+12V trigger is coming in on 86
Ground is on 85
87a has nothing
30 is my +12V from battery
87 is +12V out to lights

Problem: I can't get the trigger to switch on the lights. I have checked trigger, it has +12V. When I connect battery +12V directly to lights, they turn on (of course right...this is how I verified ground and light operation.)

If my trigger is not switching the relay (trigger should activate coil, which throws 30 from 87a to 87...right??) is the relay bad?

Any help would be appreciated.

-Too Slow

[antichrist]

If everything you say is right, yes, the relay is bad. Without a diagram of the relay, I couldn't say definitively.

[rmuller]

try a new relay... I recently had two blow for no good reason.. I have 3 of them in there so I was able to swap in the good one and that was definitely the problem. After taking one apart, I could tell that the metal stopped making contact for some reason... Hella relay's cost about $15 for the ones with the inline fuse... I heard that you could pick up generics for about $1.. then just throw an inline fuse in the + line.

[TooSlowMonroe]

Thanks for the help. Bad relay it was (something wrong with the actual harness provided with relay.) Bought a few replacments this morning, blew one up and diagnosed the problem when I bypassed the provided harness. It's all good now...I'll try to get pics later.

-Too Slow