[s-cars] Keeping DRLs with a McCullough HID kit via the fogs?Is it possible?

[Sean Douglas]

Or just remove the fog relay and install 2 jumpers and leave the dash
button in the "on" position all the time. 

Voila - DRL!

Sean

> -----Original Message-----
> From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com 
> [mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of Lee Levitt
> Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 5:48 AM
> To: Igor Kessel; Dave Forgie
> Cc: s-car-list at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: [s-cars] Keeping DRLs with a McCullough HID kit 
> via the fogs?Is it possible?
> 
> 
> Why not just set up the fogs to run independently of the low 
> beam?
> 
> That's how my S6 was set up, along with my wife's '96 A6. Tap into 
> a new switched power source and run that to the indash switch.
> 
> Lee
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon Apr 24 03:56:20 PDT 2006, Igor Kessel <KBATPO at comcast.net> 
> wrote:
> 
> > Dave Forgie wrote:
> >> Contrary to many people, I actually like DRLs and wouldn't want
> >> to lose  them when converting the low beams to HID via a 
> >> McCullough kit.  I know  there are procedures to disable the 
> >> DRLs so the circuit doesn't kill the HIDs
> >>  prematurely.  However, has anyone looked at keeping a form of 
> >> DRL, i.e.
> >>  running the fogs (at 70% power) while disabling the DRL to the 
> >> low beam
> >>  circuit.  I am sure it could be done, probably just by 
> >> re-routing the DRL  power to the fogs via a relay (or relays).  
> >> I would still want to be able to
> >>  switch the fogs on full via the normal circuit as well as the 
> >> HID lows via  the headlight switch.
> >> 
> >> Any Canadian-types (Fred?) done this yet?  I like the McCullough
> >> HID conversion but I will not give up my DRLs.
> > 
> > Dave,
> > while I have nothing to contribute to the DRL retrofit question
> > (I am in the opposite camp and have disabled mine as soon as I 
> > acquired my car) I would strongly recommend going the kosher OEM 
> > HID projector route rather than doing the 9006 to D2S base hack 
> > "grafting" praying that the HID hot spot would miraculously end 
> > up in the precise focal point of where the 9006 filament used to 
> > sit. Failing that you will get a horrible beam dispersion worse 
> > than the OEM Halogen that you started with. They will still look 
> > cool in blue but the colour is probably not what you're after. 
> > Let alone the lack of the Fresnel lens in the OEM Halogen 
> > projector and the lack of the proper European 15º rise to the 
> > passenger side (the so-called European Asymmetrical Beam).
> > 
> > I am yet to be shown an aftermarket HID kit that would even
> > remotely impress me after having driven w/two sets of OEM HID 
> > projectors for a couple of years now.
> > 
> > -- Igor Kessel
> > two turbo quattros
> > both w/proper European HIDs 
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