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1. How much current headlights (score: 1): Author: "Hans Duinhoven" <h.duinhoven@planet.nl>; Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 09:49:54 +0200; Hi list, My GT is back on the road. I replaced the fried wire in the loom from the lights switch to the rheostat. The outer (metal) cable of the air ventilating system hit the rheostat and made a sho; /html/mgs/2002-04/msg00298.html (8,009 bytes)
2. Re: How much current headlights (score: 1): Author: "Paul Hunt $Telewest$" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>; Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 17:11:15 +0100; If you do that you run the risk of losing all lights simultaneously if any of a considerable amount of wiring should happen to ground. If you have the presence of mind you could pull on the headlamp; /html/mgs/2002-04/msg00306.html (10,002 bytes)
3. Re: How much current headlights (score: 1): Author: "Henry D. Reynolds" <hdr@jump.net>; Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 14:00:09 -0500; when i installed H4 non-sealed beam head lights in my '73 roadster i eventually wired the switch up to a relay in place of the original head light circuit and pulled power to the head lights from the; /html/mgs/2002-04/msg00308.html (8,323 bytes)
4. Re: How much current headlights (score: 1): Author: Barney Gaylord <barneymg@ntsource.com>; Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 16:45:55 -0500; Total watts/12volts=ampers Fuse should be about 50% larger than the maximum current draw. Halogen single headlamps should be 55-65 watts each on high beam. I think 100 watt headlamps are illegal in t; /html/mgs/2002-04/msg00317.html (9,890 bytes)
5. Re: How much current headlights (score: 1): Author: Skye Poier <skye@ffwd.cx>; Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 15:52:42 -0700; Have you considered putting the headlights on a relay? That way if it shorts in the future, its my guess that the less amps running through the wire would not cause as catastrophic of a meltdown...; /html/mgs/2002-04/msg00402.html (8,694 bytes)
6. Re: How much current headlights (score: 1): Author: Bill Dudley <wdudley4@attbi.com>; Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 13:24:55 -0600; My understanding is that the reason headlights were not fused in MGs was so blown fuse would not leave you without headlights at an inopportune moment. Wouldn't the same logic apply to a relay? Do "m; /html/mgs/2002-04/msg00404.html (8,498 bytes)
7. Re: How much current headlights (score: 1): Author: "Rick Lindsay" <ROLindsay@Emeraldgrc.com>; Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 15:00:36 -0500; That sounds like Lucas logic. I can just imagine the Lucas engineers... "Okay mates, how do we want to play this, a headlight failure or a melted wiring harness -- and a headlight failure? Right. Oh; /html/mgs/2002-04/msg00405.html (10,246 bytes)
8. Re: How much current headlights (score: 1): Author: "Bob D." <bobmgtd@insightbb.com>; Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 21:35:08 -0500; This no fuse philosophy is used on battleships. When a battleship goes into battle they throw switches across the fuses, effectively taking them out of the circuit. The thinking is that minor shorts; /html/mgs/2002-04/msg00429.html (8,979 bytes)
9. Re: How much current headlights (score: 1): Author: "james" <jamesnazarian@netzero.net>; Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 00:10:38 -0600; I put my lows on one fuse/relay circuit and the highs on a separate one with the switch power coming from the dash/instrument power but then again I have about 20 fuses in the whole car. I took the; /html/mgs/2002-04/msg00432.html (8,857 bytes)
10. Re: How much current headlights (score: 1): Author: "Telewest $PH$" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>; Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 09:01:19 +0100; Also if you relay them it makes sense to have two relays, if you only use one it has to be positioned between the main lighting switch and the dip switch, so the dip-switch and the bulk of the wiring; /html/mgs/2002-04/msg00438.html (9,161 bytes)
11. Re: How much current headlights (score: 1): Author: "Hans Duinhoven" <h.duinhoven@planet.nl>; Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 21:18:13 +0200; Thanks Barney, I'll make astudy of this. It looks as it is quite some work though. The car is in a fine shape and the cause has been eliminated - air control cable has been rerouted onder the steerin; /html/mgs/2002-04/msg00474.html (10,792 bytes)
12. Re: How much current headlights (score: 1): Author: "Hans Duinhoven" <h.duinhoven@planet.nl>; Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 21:25:33 +0200; Thanks Skye, The low beams already had a relay installed from the time I converted to H4's. But the short was in the circuit on the rheostat, which is unfused, so this line will be fused next saturda; /html/mgs/2002-04/msg00476.html (9,749 bytes)

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