About E-brake cables and other things...

[Huw Powell]

> ...for my urQ.

>  Cosmetic news: urQ 900463 is now 100% original, with its new quad DOT headlamps (lows are GE 4656High-Output, highs are Sylvania 4651CoolBlue variety, all sealed-beam DOT approved).  I don't want any blue-tint glow, that's why I sticked with sealed-beams.  To my eye, looks nicer too (not ricer, I said, nicer).  But they are a little dim, I should say.  There is only 8.5V for the lows and a bizarre combination for the high-beams: 9.2V inboard and 7.4V outboard. All these figures are engine non-running.  But even with such low voltage, the CoolBlue high-beams are the whiter (meaning very, very white) headlamps I ever saw. I will install the 4 relays tonight.

I hope your relays get those voltages up, you will be really impressed
with the lighting if you can get 12-12.5 volts to the bulbs... Certainly
sounds like some new wires and sockets are in order.

> Q4- Fellow lister Brady Moffatt told me to relay the parking lamps circuit too, is this overkill now?

Not necessarily, overall that circuit draws a fair amount of current
through the headlight switch.  That relay can be easier to mount behind
the instrument panel, get the power source from the big 12v wire going
to the switch.

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> And being into it, I also acquired 2 normally-closed relays to make the little position lamps on the side of the car blinker off-sequence with the bumper-blinkers.  This will not prevent them to lit normally when not-flashing. Now, when changing lanes, others will see me better I hope.
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> Q5-I have a concern tough; will this setup upset the circuit and make the flashers blink slower (or faster)?

The flasher circuit needs to be "loaded" with a real bulb front and
rear, it sounds like you are simply going to add these relays' coils in
parallel with the front bulb to interrupt the side markers' power.  No
problem there.

A cooler way to go (IMO) is to use a SPDT relay, with the coil energized
by the parking light circuit and the turn signal circuits (each of these
is grounded when off).  Make the relay simply switch battery power on
and off to the side markers.  Then your side signals will run when the
lights are off as well.

Remember to make sure any wires you add are properly fused at their
power source.

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Huw Powell

http://www.humanspeakers.com/

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