headlight relays

[ranahan@charter.net (John Erickson)]

I used two 30 amp relays.  One for the low beams and one for the high 
beams.  That's plenty unless you're running some big lamps (100 watts).  I 
ran 10 ga. wire from the battery to the relays and 12 ga. everywhere 
else.  I created new grounds to the frame right behind each headlight 
assembly.  I connected straight to the battery (instead of the alternator) 
because it was convenient.  There are lots of different ways to do 
this.  This was mine and it works well with stock lamps (Euros, in this case).

John
Long Beach
87 16v

At 08:51 PM 6/6/2002 -0500, Bob & Ann wrote:
>okay got some new headlights to install, been looking at going the relay
>route setup and some off the setups I've seen use 1 relay for each light and
>some use 1 for high and 1 for low, is the 4 setup over kill??
>   some pick up juice from the battery and some come off the alternator, what
>is the best way??
>  plan on using 12 gauge wire or should i use 10 instead?
>  how have you guys been doing this up date?
>TIA
>Bob
>87 16V
>81 8V dead in garage still
>
>
>
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