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Old 11-05-2008, 10:35 PM   #11 (permalink)
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In yorkshire i've been in really bad fog about 5-6t times a year, and I mean really bad fog. Once I drove with the door open and kept an eye on the white lines in the middle of the road. Couldnt even see the road out the front. Thats why I wouldn't mind them. Near the moors and all so probably prudent.

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Old 11-05-2008, 11:26 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Lovely lovely part of the country mate. If you've been in that situation where it's doors open to see carriageway markings then you really are a genuine candidate for front fogs.

They do light up the extremes of your lane/road right infront of the car.
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Old 12-05-2008, 10:04 AM   #13 (permalink)
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I tried halfords super brilliance +50's and they died in 6 months.

always wonderd why they are on BOGOF most of the time guess i must have been lucky .

DaveyL is it the 3 spots youve got on the mini or the 4 ?
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Old 12-05-2008, 06:07 PM   #14 (permalink)
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That's a perennial problem that even good alignment can't solve. In happened when tungsten halogen lamps were launch in the late 1960's and became widely available in the 1970's. Anyone with the old 60w argon filled things was stuck.

Time perhaps for a rationalisation of lighting requirements. It's no longer possible to control brightness by regulating electrical watts (power) input.
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DaveyL is it the 3 spots youve got on the mini or the 4 ?

Actually, I only have only have 2 spots. Either side of the grill. Not a standard pattern I admit but works well. When I get her onthe road.

And I agree, the roads in yorkshire are so fun. Beautiful and very fun..

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Two spots at 100w each should help things along nicely. Be careful with electrical load on the loom and switchgear. You might want to mount relays close to the lamps with a permanent live from the battery to drive the spots and just use the switched feed to energise the relays.
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I had an old Nova and put 125 watt bulbs in them. Blissfully unaware that the hot cables could be a problem. Ah those were the days
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aye been there lots of smoke under the bonnet good fun

you should get away with 1 relay for the 2 spots. even 130 rally bulbs would only pull 22 amps.
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One relay will do but using two means better current delivery to each lamp, and also you have some backup in the event of a failure ie. you won't lose both simultaneously should one filament fail and cause a transient voltage spike. These can happen even in DC systems, despite the fact that every twelve volt device is effectively parallel to the vehicle's battery give or take the internal resistance of the wiring loom.
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