[s-cars] Fog light HID upgrade?

[LL - NY]

Yeah, I figured out the jumper doesn't work for the 95.5 also. May simply
use the main switched circuit to pick the fog with a conditional relay
(signal in and out, no power) also trigged (the condition) to the p-lights
to trigger the actual fog relay. Signal relays used to be availible from
McMaster-Carr. Otherwise, going to have to dig into the old books to design
a stupidly simple logic circuit that would have to ride inside the interior.
Damn German EE's couldn't  have left things alone. Now I have to design a
circuit to defeat their circuit.

LL - NY

On 1/28/09, JC <jc at j2c3.com> wrote:
>
> Mark - Yeah what Bob is talking about is more of a type of driving light
> than a true fog application. But I can totally identify with his impulse
> having lived at the end of a 1/4 mile driveway into endless woods in the
> past. The current 'pod' type projector aftermarkets are so good though,
> that
> might be the way to go and gives you a range of choice in beam from various
> 'driving' to fog type beam diffusion. I certainly would worry about the
> heat
> in the projector housing, especially if it's simultaneous to another high
> temp bulb in the low beams.
>
> Of course think we all agree about ubiquifogs these days. IMO an OEM needs
> to make the fog on button a momentary so that it has to willfully be turned
> on every time rather than left in on constantly. Around '98 or so Audi went
> to a switch like this but the stupid German mistake they made was to assume
> that Americans would be awake enough to discern between 'front fog' and
> 'rear fog' positions, and hence drivers in the USA just crank that knob out
> all the way all the time, not even knowing that there's such a thing as a
> rear fog light glaring in someone's face...
>
> To the fogs-only point for snow - absolutely - I am irritated to have not
> figured out a clever method to activate the fog switch with parking
> lights... I have a wiring diagram on my desk now and have been trying to
> figure a clever way to get that done unintrusively.  I have a 95.5 so the
> simple relay jumper trick doesn't work...
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com
> > [mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of Mark Strangways
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 16:54 PM
> > To: lee at wheelman.com; Robert Myers
> > Cc: 'S-Car-List at Audifans.Com'
>
> > Subject: Re: [s-cars] Fog light HID upgrade?
> >
>
> > I put a second of 150W halogen driving lights on the front of my Jeep.
> > They focus way in front of you, and that combined with
> > regular bulbs yields an almost daylight in front of me whilst
> > in the back 40.
> > Not real friendly to oncoming traffic mind you, but it has
> > halted quite a few deer at the shoulders.
> >
> > For my 2 cents on this, fogs have no place on cars these
> > days. People just leave them on whenever the turn their headlights on.
> > This does very little other than light up the road in front
> > of you and piss oncoming traffic off... though I have found
> > that I have never seen a cop car with fogs on, so that kinda
> > helps determine if you need to slow down at all.
> >
> > 2 weeks ago I drove through a pretty much blinding blizzard,
> > while many where tooling along in whatever lane they could
> > create with their high beams a blazing, blinding themselves..
> > I was doing silly speeds in 4 wheel, with just my fogs on and
> > I could see much better than using low beams and fogs.
> > This is what I feel they are made for, and this only. As
> > stated they do really screw up your long range vision by
> > having too much near field light right in front of you.
> >
>
>
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