Hi Terry,
a mate of mine has just bought himself a 510, it needs a blue slip, its
all pretty good but it has some pretty decent lights on it, ive only breifly
checked it out, all the wiring is stock. The globes are hallogens, i have
no idea on wattage for either hi or low but pretty much nothing works,
ie you can only get lows with the switch 1/2 on and the beam switch foreward,
every other switch combo gives nothing,
Andrew,
[This 510 has the classic
symptoms of a blown headlight relay which is usually located on the strut
tower opposite the fuse box and just beside the horn relay. There
are 2 types of headlight relay for early & late models and they are
interchangeable but the connecting plug is different and requires a few
connectors to be soldered on. The longer rectangular type with a bunch
of red wires attached to the bottom of it is the earlier one and the later
relay is basically square but the connector plugs straight into the bottom
of the relay.]
i have an old email from you (year
or 2) explaining how to wire the high beams with a relay and the standard
wiring setup, i was wondering if you could help me out with the low beam
setup. I havent checked any under dash wiring as when i had a look at it
my multimeter went nuts, and i wasnt about to pull it apart to see what
went where. here
is the stuff you sent, i.e. is it the same sort of thing with the lows?
[No, the lows simply run off the
standard relay without any mods at all, you can run up to 90/100w inserts
without problems, any higher than 100w x 2 on outer high beams i would
suggest another relay or the dual fused New Era to run the high beams on
both inner & outer inserts]
[This
is the DIY highbeam improvement instructions]
regards
Terry
I will supply easy
to DIY details for wiring a high beam headlight relay in a
510. In this example I will use
the relatively inexpensive Bosch 30A mini
relay, although for serious lighting,
say above 300 watts use a relay such as
the New Era NLR-132 which will
supply 2 fused 30 amp circuits and works great
for 4 super oscars on the rally
car, a bit much for a road car though. The
Bosch 30A relay is found in most
auto parts shops and has numbered pins to make
it easy to wire and is rated to
take 360 watts in theory, but I usually limit
these to 260 watts for road use.
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