Electrical adding 4 aux. lights
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adding 4 aux. lights
i have a 2003 mcs with aux driving lights i am removing the lights and adding the alta bar with 4 lights. does anyone know if the existing wiring can handle the load of 4 lights. ive searched but didn't find an answer.
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You could probably use the existing harness to trigger relays for the lights on your Alta bar, but I'd be leery of trying to supply four big lights with wiring designed to support two small lights. On a British car. And you'd only be able to control all four lights as a single circuit rather than being able to pair them.
OTOH, you'd be going from whatever the stock lights are (35 watts each?) to four at probably 55 watts each. What's the worst that could happen? Blown fuse? Terminally addled CPU? Small underhood fire? PFAH! There's nothing like the smell of phlogiston escaping from its imprisoning wire to remind me of the classic days of British sport cars. Unless it's the creaking of wire wheels or the stink of castor oil. Or the dull thudding of a lead hammer beating on a rusted-fast knock off hub with a wife snickering in the background and asking in faux innocence "What to they mean by UNDO and why does that arrow point the other way?"
Excuse me, I need to go out and find a nice old bug-eye Sprite while I'm feeling all nostalgic.
Your question? Oh, yeah. Well I wouldn't do it, but you could probably use the factory wiring to control relays for the lights. You're probably going to be pulling too much current to use the factory wiring to power four big lights, though.
OTOH, you'd be going from whatever the stock lights are (35 watts each?) to four at probably 55 watts each. What's the worst that could happen? Blown fuse? Terminally addled CPU? Small underhood fire? PFAH! There's nothing like the smell of phlogiston escaping from its imprisoning wire to remind me of the classic days of British sport cars. Unless it's the creaking of wire wheels or the stink of castor oil. Or the dull thudding of a lead hammer beating on a rusted-fast knock off hub with a wife snickering in the background and asking in faux innocence "What to they mean by UNDO and why does that arrow point the other way?"
Excuse me, I need to go out and find a nice old bug-eye Sprite while I'm feeling all nostalgic.
Your question? Oh, yeah. Well I wouldn't do it, but you could probably use the factory wiring to control relays for the lights. You're probably going to be pulling too much current to use the factory wiring to power four big lights, though.
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You could probably use the existing harness to trigger relays for the lights on your Alta bar, but I'd be leery of trying to supply four big lights with wiring designed to support two small lights. On a British car. And you'd only be able to control all four lights as a single circuit rather than being able to pair them.
OTOH, you'd be going from whatever the stock lights are (35 watts each?) to four at probably 55 watts each. What's the worst that could happen? Blown fuse? Terminally addled CPU? Small underhood fire? PFAH! There's nothing like the smell of phlogiston escaping from its imprisoning wire to remind me of the classic days of British sport cars. Unless it's the creaking of wire wheels or the stink of castor oil. Or the dull thudding of a lead hammer beating on a rusted-fast knock off hub with a wife snickering in the background and asking in faux innocence "What to they mean by UNDO and why does that arrow point the other way?"
Excuse me, I need to go out and find a nice old bug-eye Sprite while I'm feeling all nostalgic.
Your question? Oh, yeah. Well I wouldn't do it, but you could probably use the factory wiring to control relays for the lights. You're probably going to be pulling too much current to use the factory wiring to power four big lights, though.
OTOH, you'd be going from whatever the stock lights are (35 watts each?) to four at probably 55 watts each. What's the worst that could happen? Blown fuse? Terminally addled CPU? Small underhood fire? PFAH! There's nothing like the smell of phlogiston escaping from its imprisoning wire to remind me of the classic days of British sport cars. Unless it's the creaking of wire wheels or the stink of castor oil. Or the dull thudding of a lead hammer beating on a rusted-fast knock off hub with a wife snickering in the background and asking in faux innocence "What to they mean by UNDO and why does that arrow point the other way?"
Excuse me, I need to go out and find a nice old bug-eye Sprite while I'm feeling all nostalgic.
Your question? Oh, yeah. Well I wouldn't do it, but you could probably use the factory wiring to control relays for the lights. You're probably going to be pulling too much current to use the factory wiring to power four big lights, though.
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