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I supported Toymods
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Bottom of the hill, Sydney
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Re: TA22 - H4 time.
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Wed, 12 May 2004 07:28
 
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Are your headlights running through relays?
If not it is advisable to fit them as there will be extra load on the headlight wiring/switching which will cause premature failure. The added bonus of relays when wired correctly is a better power supply to the headlights giving a brighter light.
| Grega wrote on Wed, 12 May 2004 16:34 |
i'm going to change it to low beam on both and hi beam on both while i'm here - far better lighting setup.
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Is it legal to have 4 low beam headlights?
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Re: TA22 - H4 time.
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Wed, 12 May 2004 08:38
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Pity i dont have my ta22 still greg - i could have shown you the ultimate ta22 l;ight setup
Outers 90/110 Semi sealed beams
Inners clear lense 150W rally spotlights
Was running relays - HAD AWESOME BUG MELTING POWER
totally illegal i think but you need uber-lights for the country
Gt4 will be copping a similar setup if i can find a good set of neat spotlights
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I supported Toymods
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Re: TA22 - H4 time.
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Wed, 12 May 2004 09:56
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like bradw has suggested, relays are MANDATORY
and i don't know if its illegal to be honest....good question will let you know when i find out.
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Re: TA22 - H4 time.
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Wed, 12 May 2004 10:00
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Its not. I got pulled over for the exact thing. I never got fined though, but they said I couldnt drive the car away untill it was fixed 
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Kita-Ku, Sapporo, Japan
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Re: TA22 - H4 time.
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Wed, 12 May 2004 15:59
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90/120 for the outsides and 150 for the insides 
i had 90/120's in my poor little rolla... were nice and bright and i aimed them extra low so as not to piss off too many ppl.. can see every detail in the road
mmmm low beam 2x 90 = 15amps
high beam 2x 120 + 2x 150 = 45 amps!!!!!!!!! holy moly!!!!
if you are using k-mart or other cheapy "horn relays", use one for each light and circuit as they may only like 10A continuous...
there are better relays around that can run 40A continuous, such as the P&B (Potter & Brumfield)
http://www.jameco.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/ExecMacro /jameco/searchResult.d2w/report?sort=BPA&searc h=171441
AUD$3.15 or so before postage....
i'm going to grab a few of these when i eventually have relays in my car 
Cya, Stewart
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I supported Toymods
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Re: TA22 - H4 time.
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Wed, 12 May 2004 19:35
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i normally use narva relays, never had any issues with them to be honest.
that or the original ones from VNs (fit in pockets well from wreckers)
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Re: TA22 - H4 time.
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Thu, 13 May 2004 06:38
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I love the look of what you're doing with this and it has gotten me thinking...
I want to improve the lighting of the car (it can't get any worse can it?) and the immediate thought is to reduce the load on the light wires by reducing them to switching current only and driving all the headlights from relays. So wiring the original wires to the relays and then wiring the relays to the headlights while keeping the original headlights (at this stage - I will move to better units when I can).
Firstly, is it appropriate to add one relay per pair or better to have one per light? I would have thought that it would be better to have one relay per light in case of failure (so you could at least get home on one light). While doing this, the fuses in the interior relevant to the headlights become less useful and so I'm thinking that there should be fuses installed with the relays as well?
My 22 has only about 3-4 relays in it now. Adding another 2-4 relays plus fuses will make that section of the engine bay fairly messy. What ideas are floating around for installing more relays and keeping the install neat? Does anyone know of an appropriate later model car that would have a fuse/relay box that would be appropriate for this conversion?
Sorry for the ramble...
Cheers,
Dan
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