furryeggs
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| posted on 31/7/16 at 10:34 AM |
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Wiring time, Adding side lights.
It's time i started the wiring, after a visit to tiger yesterday i am 90% sure all of the wires are correctly labelled and id'd. The one
thing i completely forgot to ask is regarding my side lights. My head light units have main beam and dip beam only, no side lights. As these were a
present from the wife i'd like to keep and use them so can i add a sidelight bulb into them?
I'm thinking of Either a small 3 LED strip stuck to the inside of the reflector or drilling a hole for a bulb fitting. I'm rewiring the
units to extend the wires and plug into the nose cone so doing it all at the same time would help.
Am i correct in thinking that DRL's aren't allowed to be used as side lights.
cheers guys
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coozer
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| posted on 31/7/16 at 11:05 AM |
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LEDS on the inside sounds good to me.
1972 V8 Jago
1980 Z750
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benchmark51
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| posted on 31/7/16 at 11:44 AM |
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Yes, go with leds. Apart from head lights, all mine are leds. I thought DRL's have to go out when headlights are on? So would have thought using
DRL's as sidelights would be ok?
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SteveWalker
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| posted on 31/7/16 at 12:37 PM |
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DRLs should go out or dim when any lights other than main-beam are on I think (as they are too bright to be used normally in full or partial
darkness). If they are e-marked and can dim, they can be used as sidelights.
[Edited on 31/7/16 by SteveWalker]
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gremlin1234
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| posted on 31/7/16 at 08:21 PM |
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iva section 22
Daytime running lamps;
23. The correct number must be fitted to the vehicle ( Table 1 ) [optional or 2]
24. They must be operational
25. They must only emit white light to the front
26. They must be positioned to meet
a. the positional requirements of Table 1
b. the angles of visibility requirements of Table 1
27. They must extinguish automatically when headlamps are operated. (see note 6)
Note 6: Daytime running lamps. The lamps must be connected so that they switch off automatically when the headlamps are on. (Except for when the
headlamps are flashed).
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snowy2
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| posted on 1/8/16 at 08:17 PM |
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sides can be more or less anywhere.......they dont need to be part of the main lights
sometimes you are the pigeon, most of the time the statue.
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furryeggs
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| posted on 1/8/16 at 08:27 PM |
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So if i go down the route of adding an LED in the headlight unit that is a "side light" not a DRL, it'll be ok at IVA?.
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furryeggs
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| posted on 3/8/16 at 07:46 PM |
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it works.
mocked up one of my lights today with a side light. I had some left over LED strip so I got soldering and here's the end result hooked up to a
12v supply.
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hope they aren't to bright?
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