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I did a good thing last weekend. Having recently moved into the country a
bit and driving now on really dark country roads, I'd begun noticing that
the headlights in my '66 Elky weren't all that bright (unless they were
really switched onto bright). I did some investigating and found only 10.5
volts making it to the lights (that voltage makes a long and perilous voyage
before getting to the lights).
I remembered an article that ran in one of the car mags not too long ago
about adding a relay into the headlight circuit. I didn't go digging for
the article, but just dived right in. I used an extra Radio Shack auto
relay I had laying around and attached it to the radiator support. I used
one of the original supply lines to the driver's headlight as the control
voltage and pulled the load voltage from the junction box. Did a little
cutting and splicing - took about an hour - and it was done.
I hadn't done any night driving until last night and had almost forgotten
the job, but once I got on the road the difference was amazing. 12 volt
headlamps work much better once they're supplied with 12 volts (or 13.5 as
the case may be).
For night driving in really dark areas, this mod is highly recommended.
Darrell Spencer
Cave Creek, Arizona
'70 Malibu
'66 El Camino
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