What alt did you go to? did it bolt straight on? Got a winch and twin batteries but you can never have to much power!Mudzuki wrote:I didn't have problems with running high beam and 4 x 100W on the roof, just had to switch them off at idle.
Now i have upgraded the alt due to the winch.
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Light setup ideas
Built swb sierra, building a lwb sierra ute and have a dmax for family camping
lights
i have allways liked this idea ( a bit different )
^ That looks like a similar mount to those swivel spotties on cop cars in those American movies. Interesting way of doing it.
Can't imagine that they'd normally do that unless something short circuited as the normal current through spotties, shouldn't be anywhere near enough to weld the contacts together.
Anyway, it's pretty easy, depends on how you want it setup as to how you go about it. I had my dad who's a sparky do it on mine before I started electrotechnology at TAFE, piece of piss for me now.
How it was done was it was spliced off either the high or low beam headlight wire, can't recall exactly and can't be bothered checking, with a relay and an illuminated switch to turn it on and off
So you flick the switch to turn them on and the light will show if they're on, but if you put the lights in low beam with the switch for the spotties even in the on position they will turn off and the light will turn off to show that. That way you can be going down a country road with the spotties and high beams on and you dip em back down to low if anyone is coming the other way then put back to high and you don't have to worry about turning the spotties off as well.
Hope that makes sense. There are a heap of possible ways to set it up, but that's a pretty good one.
Did you fuse it ?Red_Zook wrote: umm no LOL
u will need like a relay and stuff, i ran mine of one relay but it kinda welded its self together once. so 2 relays and 50W globes is the go.
when you buy the kit it should come with the relay, swich and instructions etc
Can't imagine that they'd normally do that unless something short circuited as the normal current through spotties, shouldn't be anywhere near enough to weld the contacts together.
Anyway, it's pretty easy, depends on how you want it setup as to how you go about it. I had my dad who's a sparky do it on mine before I started electrotechnology at TAFE, piece of piss for me now.
How it was done was it was spliced off either the high or low beam headlight wire, can't recall exactly and can't be bothered checking, with a relay and an illuminated switch to turn it on and off
So you flick the switch to turn them on and the light will show if they're on, but if you put the lights in low beam with the switch for the spotties even in the on position they will turn off and the light will turn off to show that. That way you can be going down a country road with the spotties and high beams on and you dip em back down to low if anyone is coming the other way then put back to high and you don't have to worry about turning the spotties off as well.
Hope that makes sense. There are a heap of possible ways to set it up, but that's a pretty good one.
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