Re: Relay Woes

[Peter Golledge <petergg@mincom.com>]

Romeo Shayne Pavlic'
> 
[snipped relay setup]
> Okay, so everything works great, except my cars computer registers that the
> I have burned out headlights.  Now I reconnect the low beam wires under the
> dash.  Still the same problem except now when I turn off the lights the
> relays still stay close allowing the lights to stay  on.  I now disconnect
> the wires under the dash again, now I am back to being able to turn off the
> lights correctly.  Well, finally I discover that the wires just behind the
> bulbs and the load connections from the relay need to be clipped so that the
> burned out headlight signal on the dash is not always on.  Now it never
> comes on.  I tested it by unpluging one of the lights.  I also noticed that
> now the radio pops when I turn on the lights or turn on and off the high
> beams.  What gives with this?
> 
> Anyone know how to get my dash l warning light to display properly and to
> get rid of the pop?????

I have the same problem with my 200TQ retro lights (84 headlight
buckets with Hella H1/H4)  I drive my relays from the original
headlight sockets with the power to the relays coming directly from the
jump start post.  I have found it takes a load of around 20W on each
lowbeam headlight circuit to prevent 'tripping' the dead light
warning.  I have not fixed this yet, I could use a couple of high watt
resistors.... would rather add something useful ( maybe two fans to
cool the 80W low beams :-) )

Perhaps another lister has an idea on how to use the 2 x 20W usefully.

Cheers
-- 
Peter Golledge