quattro Digest, Vol 4, Issue 51- Euro Lights - Harness

[Larry C. Leung]

Robert,

Thanks for the Heads-up on the PIAA 85W lamps. Not worth it. 

The reason I ended up with the SUVLights harness had to do with access to
good wires. 
This place is sooooo suburban that the ONLY hardware store around here
(until recently)
was Home Desparate. And their wire 12 - 10 ga stranded wire SUCKS worse
than what
turns out to be the Hella 14ga  harnesses sold by SUVLights. AND the only
electrical supply
houses here are for, houses. SO, they don't carry stranded wire. The
worst thing is the stereo
installation shops around here don't carry anything larger than 14 ga.
Don't plan on having them
EVER touch my car. 

(Un)fortunately, since it's so populated around here, I don't really need
my brights. So, I'll just
stick by 55's, which are fine with 14ga. Of course, if you want more
wattage with the SUVLights
harness', you could simply order 1 harness per bulb! (still will cost
less than Blau's harness, and
from what I've seen, those are only 14ga too!). 

LL - NY

P.S. - the Dogs still have snow to play with? How about the drivers!!??
;-)

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 11:46:05 -0500 Robert Myers <robert at s-cars.org>
writes:

I think if you take a close look at those PIAA ads for 85 watt lights you
will see that they are 55 watt (input) lights and are "rated at 85 watts
output".  Which means, to me, "marketing hype".  IOW, so much
BullShipping.  

I agree with your concerns.  That's why I'm not using those SUVLights
harnesses.  And you can use the high beams around here - regularly.

At 04:26 PM 2/11/2004 +0000, l.leung at juno.com wrote:




Around the semi urban/suburban area that Chi and I live in,
for short bursts, the harness will do. Any continuous duty 
with Hi Wattage (> 100 W) bulbs, it'll get REAL hot. From 
what I read on the wire insulation, (PVC) it's only good to
104 C, so I personally wouldn't use the SUV harness for much
more than an 85W driving light, 60W Main/55W Dip Beam set-up. 
Of course, the only 85W H3's I've found are from PIAA, so I 
kinda gave up for now (can't really use Main Beams around here
or you'll piss someone off!)

LL - NY

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Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 21:17:57 -0500
From: Robert Myers <robert at s-cars.org>
Subject: Re: Euro lights - harness
To: CL Wong <montesawong at yahoo.com>, AudiFans <quattro at audifans.com>

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How well will your $55 harness handle four 130 watt bulbs?  Let's 
see...  That'd be about 40 amps.

At 05:47 PM 2/10/2004 -0800, CL Wong wrote:

>I'm currently running their standard wiring harness
>which uses 2 relays and 14gauge wiring.  It requires
>splicing into your existing harness.  Cost: $55
>
>I think they have a 4 relay heavy duty wiring harness,
>not sure what they cost.

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