Your lights will be MUCH better than original PL700 lights. They used
something like 40 watt bulbs!
As I said before I used 2 modern relays. One for low beam and one for high
beam. I mounted them mounted them under a headlight bucket, mostly out of
view.
I ran 10awg wire from the A terminal of the voltage regulator using a 1/4
quick connect to the relays. Then the origonal low beam wire went to one
relay and the high beam wire to the other relay. I used new female bullet
connectors for the job, so there is no cutting of the original harness
Then the new low or high beam hot lead comes off the "normally open" terminal
of the relay and goes to the original bullet connector junction connector.
-Tony
On Oct 15, 2014, at 2:14 AM, triumphs-request@autox.team.net wrote:
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> Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 12:58:13 -0700
> From: Jeffrey Gayton <jtgayton@icloud.com>
> To: triumphs@autox.team.net
> Subject: [TR] Headlight Update
> Message-ID: <34784E1F-114A-49BD-B834-C647D7CB66AF@icloud.com>
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> Thanks, everyone, who responded to my question about using a Lucas TR4A
horn
> relay on halogen headlights. I've decided to go with a modern relay, and
will
> figure out later whether to hide it under the dash or under the headlight
> bucket.
>
> It looks like I'll need to buy new headlights too. I thought I'd be able to
> use halogen bulbs for my Lucas PL700 repros, but it now appears that
they're
> not reproduction after all. Now I know why the PO had the ugly (IMHO) wire
> headlight protectors!
>
> Thanks again!
>
> b Jeff
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