12V V 24V
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2003 7:41 pm
Will a 24V light work when connected to 12V? Will it work at all or just be half strength?
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Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2003 7:51 pm
It'll work, it just won't be bright. What are you trying to do?
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2003 7:56 pm
It will work but instead of being, say 100w it will be only 50w.
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2003 8:22 pm
I bought a sealed worklight from Queensland Diesel Spares (a truck acc. store for the southerners) and connected it straight to the battery and nothing happened. There is no indication of what voltage or wattage it is either so I thought that maybe it was 24V and this prevented it form working. Maybe it needs a relay 
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2003 8:25 pm
MAybe the globe is blown 
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2003 8:50 pm
It doesn't sound like there's anything rattling around inside and as I said it's sealed with a rubber outer too 
Might have to have another play 
Might have to have another play Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2003 8:54 pm
Just put a continuity tester across it.
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2003 8:54 pm
COULD IT HAVE SOME SORT OF INTERNAL ELECTRODE THAT REQUIRES 24v TO FIRE IT UP
Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 8:40 am
Guts wrote:It will work but instead of being, say 100w it will be only 50w.
Actually it'll be a lot less, a Halogen lamp can loose 30% of it's output by only losing 10% voltage.
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 8:45 pm
Drafty wrote:COULD IT HAVE SOME SORT OF INTERNAL ELECTRODE THAT REQUIRES 24v TO FIRE IT UP
doubt it, unless its an arc lamp (like the one they use to put batmans symbol in the sky)
Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 10:41 pm
I didn't realise that this thread was still kicking 
I went back to the place where I bought the lamp from and aparently it isn't a sealed light
so they sold me a bulb for it. I asked about fitting it and they said that you just pull off the rubber surround. I have since tried a couple of times but decided that it wasn't going to happen and it is still sitting on the shed floor
So yeah, the problem is the user
Thanks for the replies
I went back to the place where I bought the lamp from and aparently it isn't a sealed light
so they sold me a bulb for it. I asked about fitting it and they said that you just pull off the rubber surround. I have since tried a couple of times but decided that it wasn't going to happen and it is still sitting on the shed floor
So yeah, the problem is the user
Thanks for the replies
Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 11:47 pm
M8 what i would do is go to Queensland Diesel Spares and buy a couple (narva bull lamps) like they have on the semi's i have 2 100w pencil beams on my truck and they are awesome? and planning to put another 2 right beside e'm that'll light her up !!!!!! 
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 11:42 pm
too bad ya cant see over them!
nah they are pretty damn good specially when my old man got 2 for 30 bucks each, brand new!
and they are bright as hell. and if you plan on going to any BnS balls, the people there will compliment you on the size... ...of your lights.
nah they are pretty damn good specially when my old man got 2 for 30 bucks each, brand new!
and they are bright as hell. and if you plan on going to any BnS balls, the people there will compliment you on the size... ...of your lights.