Subject: RE: Brighter headlight
Author: Lannis
Date: Sep 13, 2004, 3:38 PM
Post ID: 1717522644
Neil wrote:
| Best way that I have found to get some "real light" out of any older Guzzi headlight regardless if it's stock or halogen H-4 is RELAYS! Go to any auto parts store and go to the accessory lighting dept. and pick up a couple of 30 amp relays. You need one each for low beam and high beam. Instructions are usually on the back. Once you have them installed all the headlight switch does is trigger the relay which then carries the load instead of the switch. Really makes a big difference. The rectangular channel under the main frame backbone makes a great place to put them. You can get them in the headlight shell, but it gets a bit crowded. Good luck. Later "Maynard" |
Yep, did that on my Eldo a few months ago and a noticeable improvement
in the headlight brightness resulted, besides not having to worry about
burning up the switch. Two 30A relays @$2.97 at AutoZone.
I didn't run a wire from the battery, just used the hot wire inside the
headlight shell. Instead of hot wire then to the switch then to the
headlight, it's hot wire to the relay to the headlight, and the the
switch just trips the relay now, hardly any current load at all.
Two relays fit tucked back into the corners of the headlight shell no
problem; I cut a piece of bicycle tube to go over them and cover up any
bare metal that might result if the spade connectors were to slip a
little bit.
Lannis