Date:         Sat, 15 Dec 2001 05:26:55 +0800
Reply-To:     Tim Hannink <tjhannink@EARTHLINK.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Tim Hannink <tjhannink@EARTHLINK.NET>
Subject:      Re: Quick, cheap and easy headlight relay
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You bring up two excellent points.

For the first, if use a relay socket, it is easy to either replace the relay or install a temporary jumper between terminal 87 and terminal 30 on the socket to get you on your way again. The relay is easy to access underneath the instrument panel cover. If you choose not to use a relay socket, it is simply a matter of unplugging the wire from terminal 57 of the light switch, pulling the white/black wire off terminal 30 of the relay and plugging it into terminal 57 on the light switch, and your back to the stock set-up.

As for the second, I agree that if you will be pulling more current, you will be better off running a fused lead directly to the battery. The fuse block should be more than capable of supplying current to the stock bulbs.

Tim Hannink
Goldibox - 1987 Vanagon Camper, Wolfsburg Edition
Winter Park, Florida
http://home.earthlink.net/~tjhannink/


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