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Is 14swg wire a bit OTT for making a separate harness for headlights with spotlights
Is 14swg wire a bit OTT for making a separate harness for headlights with spotlights
Normal 55w x2 through a relay,70 amp rating.I would like the headlight main beam to run off the relay also
do a search. your reinventing the wheel wire ya spots etc in pairs thru switched relays fed direct from battery. with the switched live coming from the high beam feed. Make sure they can be switched off independent of the highbeam headlamps.
So if you used 6x100w lamps assuming you uprate them all (600w) at a nominal 12v (usually around 14v but we'll stick with this figure) we're pulling 50 amps alone on spots! Drop that to 60w per lamp and you're looking at 360w, which gives a more reasonable 30 amps current draw. That'd still be pretty chunky wiring required but I'd always rather over-spec than under-spec. Use a 50amp relay and you're pretty safe. LED's are the way forward IMO, less current draw and more efficient, which means less demand for equivalent lighting which can only be a good thing and the technology is getting better and cheaper as it becomes more established.
6x100w spots + 2x55w full beam headlights? Thats 710 watts of lighting! What are you trying to do? Light up a fecking runway??![]()
More lights the better!
agreed.