RE: Hooking up euro lights.

[Jeffrey Lowe <scirocco16v_1986@yahoo.com>]

--- "L. M. Lloyd" <ubik@austin.rr.com> wrote:
> Personally, I don't like the idea of a non
> weatherproofed electric component in the engine 
> compartment, especial given how often we have
> flash floods around where I live.
 
Well, the battery itself is just one big non
weatherproof item sitting under the hood, as are all
the contacts on the back of the lights, and the A/C
switches, and at least half a dozen others, of course
the posts on the battery are separated by a good 8" or
so. Besides, the spot where I mounted my relays is
exactly the same spot Volkswagen mounted the Hella fan
relay, a non weatherproof enclosure I might add. 
 
> > > That was when it occurred to me that perhaps
> > > electro-mechanical relays had some property or
> > > benefit I was not taking into account. 
> > 
> > Amperage!
> > 
> 
> Now you lost me again. As I understand it, a relay
> can limit the amount of amperage in a circuit, but 
> it can't add to the amperage in a circuit. Perhaps I
> got this wrong, but it seemed from the comments
> made that what was at issue here was voltage, not
> the amperage in the line, so I am unclear on what 
> this comment means.

Amperage is the strength of an electric current,
therefore if you have larger gauge wire hooked to
terminal 30 & 87 you are going to pass that higher
amperage to the bulb. I did not mean to imply that the
relay itself was an amperage booster.

It was a PITA to do the relay setup, so I can see why
people would analyze the hell out of the reasons for
doing it.

Later...

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