Edited by mayfairjimmy, 31 January 2007 - 05:34 PM.

two main beams
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mayfairjimmy
, Jan 31 2007 05:31 PM
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#1
Posted 31 January 2007 - 05:31 PM
I have recently fitted angel eyes and driving back from work along some gnarly country roads and touched my headlight lever and noticed that if you push it right forward it goes to normal main beam but if you pull it back about 1cm the main lights not the spots become brighter?? any ideas why?
#2
Posted 31 January 2007 - 05:46 PM
I think with the switch gear, When you pull the "Flasher" Stick back just enough for it to get brighter, but not until it clicks onto "High beam". you are actually activating both the High beam circuit and the dipped beam circuit. So really you are running both filiments in your head lamps.
But because its not clicked onto "High Beam" mode, Your Dipped beam lights are still on, And your highbeam dash light wont have come on either.
But because its not clicked onto "High Beam" mode, Your Dipped beam lights are still on, And your highbeam dash light wont have come on either.
#3
Posted 31 January 2007 - 08:40 PM
It is normal. It's because the flasher part of the lighting stalk gets it power supply independantly of the lighting system which supplys the high and low beam section. So when you pull the stalk to the flash position it doesn't extinguish the dipped beam lamps, it merely switches on the main beam filaments as well. When you knock the stalk forward into main beam mode it extinguishes the dipped filaments first because the power for this comes from the lighting circuit which can't supply both at once. The reason is that if you were to flash the lamps at night and the dipped beam was extinguished while doing so there would be a split second of total darkness which would be fairly scary and since the flash is only supposed to be used for a short time there is no real danger of overloading the system. You can dangerously overload the system if you keep the switch pulled into the flash position for a long time while the dipped beam lamps are on though so don't do it. The lamp flasher shares power supply with the horn.
Your spotlamps can't get any brighter as they only have one filament, they are either on or off. The headlamp bulbs have two, high and low beam. One or the other or both can be on at any time.
Your spotlamps can't get any brighter as they only have one filament, they are either on or off. The headlamp bulbs have two, high and low beam. One or the other or both can be on at any time.
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