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Date:         Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:59:50 -0700
Reply-To:     Don Hanson <dhanson@GORGE.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Don Hanson <dhanson@GORGE.NET>
Subject:      Wiring in Auxilliary lights?
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'84. Hi, after some of the recent posts on headlight switch failure, I ordered a spare for my 84. It's switch has been a little sticky anyhow, hard to turn off and on and I have a tunnel I pass through a few time per day..so (a spare can't hurt, right?) But as I perused the Van-Cafe site I found that auxiliary driving light switch listing and thought..'Hey, I can take the KC lights off my truck (can't afford to drive that anymore anyhow) and put them on the van. So..

Anyone have any suggestions? The lights are some big KC Daylighters. I used a cheap Shucks Auto switch and relay on my Ford pickup..worked ok till the relay broke, then the switch broke..On the Van, I guess I'd like something a bit better. Hopefully, an appropriate switch is a good start.

One thing I'd like to try is to somehow wire in these very bright lights is to have them only work when my bright head lights are on, incidentally going off whenever I hit my dimmer switch..Is that possible or feasible? I am an electrical dunce and if it's at all involved, it would beyond my capability to do without burning out all my lighting circuits...or something equally bad..

Would this be sort of how to do it? Take power from a big source, like say the fan motor directly to the KC lights. Install a good relay (and a fuse, of course.) in that line. Now what? From my newly purchased aux light switch..I could go to that relay..but I'd like that to only activate when the headlights are on high beam mode..Would I use a wire from the highbeam circuit and a resistor of some sort...between the switch and the relay, perhaps with a second relay...Lost now... Don Hanson


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