RE: Hooking up euro lights.

["Patrick Bureau" <pbureau@home.com>]

heheh, everyone keeps saying to do it for a single reason, which I
will explain
the 45/55w bulbs of the euro lights can function properly on your
car (as mine are directly wired without relays) but you end up (so
it is said) only using a less than 100% capabilities of the output
of the bulb.

Personally  I might try it one day (as I am slowly running out
things to replace on the car)
just to see if I turn my lights on will the voltage gauge still
drop 2 Volts to 12V from 14V when I turn my lights on with relays
(I believe it will still, but light output would be greater
according to many on this list)

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> From: owner-scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> [mailto:owner-scirocco-l@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of L. M. Lloyd
> Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 5:36 AM
> To: Scirocco List
> 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.
>
> 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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