Headlight relay repair bonus
01-13-2010, 03:53 PM
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I want a custom programmable headlight relay. When I'm popping the headlights up in a show-off situation, I want the bulbs to come on while the lights are still retracted, so they cut an arc from vertical to normal position. This is pretty cool if you have HID's, with that initial start flash point up. In regular driving, I don't need to blind other drivers as they pop up, so normal function would be fine.[/QUOTE]
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Dr. Bob,
Our car's were built before HID lamps were ever incorporated into automobile headlights. If your lights came on every time at the baseline position as you described, the momentary flash at another driver would be tantamount to the flash you get from every Audi coming at you going over a dip or hump in the road- a momentary and benign inconvenience. I would like for someone to figure out how to modify a standard relay to have the lights come on at the beginning of their travel to the end use position. (Alan?) A BOTTLE OF CHAMPAGNE FROM ME TO THE FIRST PERSON TO DETAIL THIS DESIRED MODIFICATION !
Seriously!
All Best,
Allen in Allentown, PA
Oops! I quoted and replied to the wrong excerpt.
Here we go again.....
Dr. Bob,
Our car's were built before HID lamps were ever incorporated into automobile headlights. If your lights came on every time at the baseline position as you described, the momentary flash at another driver would be tantamount to the flash you get from every Audi coming at you going over a dip or hump in the road- a momentary and benign inconvenience. I would like for someone to figure out how to modify a standard relay to have the lights come on at the beginning of their travel to the end use position. (Alan?) A BOTTLE OF CHAMPAGNE FROM ME TO THE FIRST PERSON TO DETAIL THIS DESIRED MODIFICATION !
Seriously!
All Best,
Allen in Allentown, PA
01-13-2010, 04:09 PM
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Allen--
I think we need to emphasize the phrase "in a show-off situation" for this description, and the idea that "In regular driving, I don't need to blind other drivers as they pop up, so normal function would be fine." With these thoughts in mind during design, there would be no flashing of other drivers.
For the budding relay-logic engineers whirling strategies though their minds, consider the idea that the lamps could come on from the parked position only when the high-beam stalk is pulled, from the upright position at all other times. Needs to be something really simple, no added switches or wiring, etc. The headlight relay has two major relays inside, plus the little ones for the motor. The rest of the functions could be built with discrete transistors if you want to take just one techno step up. All the terminals are there at the headlight relay socket for the motors, limit switches, stalk switch, X, etc.
I'd like to have white LED's around the perimeter of the glass too, 'city lights', and a way to have them on with the parking lights but off with parking lights and headlights. Similar to the white-eyes on the BMW cars. They would come on while the housing is retracted too.
I think we need to emphasize the phrase "in a show-off situation" for this description, and the idea that "In regular driving, I don't need to blind other drivers as they pop up, so normal function would be fine." With these thoughts in mind during design, there would be no flashing of other drivers.
For the budding relay-logic engineers whirling strategies though their minds, consider the idea that the lamps could come on from the parked position only when the high-beam stalk is pulled, from the upright position at all other times. Needs to be something really simple, no added switches or wiring, etc. The headlight relay has two major relays inside, plus the little ones for the motor. The rest of the functions could be built with discrete transistors if you want to take just one techno step up. All the terminals are there at the headlight relay socket for the motors, limit switches, stalk switch, X, etc.
I'd like to have white LED's around the perimeter of the glass too, 'city lights', and a way to have them on with the parking lights but off with parking lights and headlights. Similar to the white-eyes on the BMW cars. They would come on while the housing is retracted too.
