[Healeys] Brake Lights, BN6, Failure

[Earl Kagna]

Geez Alan:

You just might dazzle some poor old sod into running right into the back of 
you - the old 'deer in the headlights' syndrome.  Either that, or some 
bloody airliner is going to try and make a landing right behind you or worse 
yet, right on top of you!

Sorry, couldn't resist - too much vodka tonight, but I feel really good.

Earl Kagna
Victoria, B.C.
BT7 tri-carb
BJ8

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan Seigrist" <healey.nut at gmail.com>
To: "john close" <f9cougar at yahoo.com>
Cc: "Healeys" <healeys at autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 8:12 PM
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Brake Lights, BN6, Failure


John -

If you really want bright tail lights, I would highly reccommend
installing a relay in the brake light circuit.  It will make a huge
difference and will light up your third brake light with no problem.
Your TBL is probably not lighting up because it isn't getting enough
juice from the brake light circuit.

Note that since I put the relay on the brake light circuit of my early
BJ8 and early BN1, I've never had any light fluctuation with engine
RPMs or any nonsense like that - just plain old bright tail lights.  I
then switched my bulbs to 3 watt luxeon LED bulbs and that just went
psycho with the amount of light coming out of the back end of the
cars.

Alan