Re: Hooking up euro lights.

["Allyn" <amalventano1@home.com>]

I've had euro lights on 3 of my sciroccos and never used relays, and never
had problems.
Just check your factory wiring is in decent shape before deciding to do it
without relays.
Also realize you will have to go to 15/20 amp fuses for the lights (fuse
block).
Al

Allyn Malventano, ETC(SS), USN
87 Rieger GTO Scirocco 16v (daily driver, 170k, rocco #6) running - for now
87 Jetta 8v Wolfsburg 2dr (daily driver, 260k, 0 rattles, original clutch,
driveshafts, wheels :)

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From: "L. M. Lloyd" <ubik@austin.rr.com>
To: "Scirocco List" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 6:36 AM
Subject: Hooking up euro lights.


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> I have been looking at the euro lights I just got, and thinking about
> how to hook them up. Now, I have looked at the procedure on
> scirocco.org, and my first question is: Why all the relays? I am
> probably missing something, but I don't understand what purpose all
> the relays serve. I realize that you have to take the output for two
> lights, and run them into one, but why use a relay for that?
> Measuring the signal on the connectors, I got 11V with the fuel pump
> running, and the alternator not running (late at night and I didn't
> want to wake anyone up, so I didn't start the car), so I would assume
> that there would be 12V when the car is actually running. So, what am
> I missing? it seems strange to me to use a switched 12V signal, just
> to switch another 12V signal. Why not just use the original
> signal/wire? It seems a lot easier to just rewire the connector,
> rather than ripping out the old wires, putting in new relays, finding
> a place to mount the new relays, and then running new wires.
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> The reason I ask, is because I hate electro-mechanical relays (they
> just seem so WWII), so was laying out a PCB to etch, when I realized
> that I was laying out a circuit that essentially did nothing, except
> use one signal to switch an identical signal, meaning it was really
> just a wire splice laid out on a PCB, which is just a waste of
> components. That was when it occurred to me that perhaps
> electro-mechanical relays had some property or benefit I was not
> taking into account. Please help me understand, because I am quite
> confused at the moment.
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> The goal is to overcome the deliberate nature of the process.
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