Re: headlight relays - now fast blinker

["Joe Doty" <rocco2nr@hotmail.com>]

You probably missed a ground somewhere.


>From: "Jeffrey Wheeler" <j_dubbya@mindspring.com>
>To: "Scirocco mailing list" <scirocco-L@scirocco.org>
>Subject: headlight relays - now fast blinker
>Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 21:14:49 -0400
>
>After more than a year of having all the necessary parts at hand, I finally 
>installed 12-gauge wire and 30 amp relays for my sorry old sealed beams.  
>As I was told it would be, the improvement was dramatic.
>
>I discovered during the obligatory post-tinkering road test (sure, they 
>looked bright in the garage, but ....) that my right-side blinker now 
>flashes at two or three times its normal speed, and its brightness seems to 
>have diminished (also this could just be that it's not allowed to stay on 
>long enough to get fully lit).
>
>I used the hot leads (yellow/black and white/black) to the left-side bulbs 
>in the original harness as the triggers for the relays, and the ground 
>wires from those same plugs as the corresponding switch grounds.  The power 
>for the lights is routed directly from the battery to the relay, and the 
>ground for the lights goes directly from lights to the negative terminal.
>
>I'm guessing that by using the old power wires on the left side as 
>triggers, I'm imposing some sort of load on that side's flasher relay 
>that's no longer present on the right side, but knowing that hasn't 
>prompted me to intuit how to remedy the situation.
>
>Thoughts?
>
>Thanks,
>Jeff Wheeler
>'82 8v

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