I've tried several of the higher wattage ones from one of the vendors and find that they indeed get hot and ALL have burned out within a month of me putting them in. Someone actually gave me a new bulb at Everybus this year (I'll have to look and see what it is) and it works great. On Sep 12, 2006, at 7:05 AM, Frank Condelli wrote: > In a message dated 11/09/2006 3:15:22 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, > LISTSERV@GERRY.VANAGON.COM writes: > > Has anybody tried the higher wattage taillites being sold by a > vendor? > > IS the wattage ok for the wires? Do they get too hot? > > If anybody knows the part numbers, I would prefer to get them locally > (Canada) rather than order via the web. > > > > Higher wattage tail tamp bulbs WILL melt your tail lamp housing, > no problem > with the wires. I just got done replacing a set of melted housing > for a > customer cauz someone put the ordinary 1156, 21 watt bulb in the > tail lamp > socket. If you want brighter tail lamps try the new LED ones that > are coming on > the market. > > Cheers, > > Frank Condelli > Almonte, Ontario, Canada > '87 Westy, '90 Carat, '87 Wolfsburg (Forsale) & Lionel Trains > Vanagon/Vanagon Westfalia Service in the Ottawa Valley > _Frank Condelli & Associates_ (http://members.aol.com/Fkc43/ > busindex.html) > _Vanagon Stainless Steel Exhaust Systems_ > (http://members.aol.com/Fkc43/stebro.htm) > _BusFusion_ (http://members.aol.com/BusFusion/bfhome.htm) a VW Camper > camping event, Almonte, ON, June 07 ~ 10, 2007 David Prendergast dprendergast@triad.rr.com |
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