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Old 07-29-2021, 01:17 PM   #11
mrein3
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Re: Headlight Advice

Do the relay upgrade. Use the lights you got, of course after you replace the burnt out one. The difference with more voltage going to the lights is all you really need in my humble opinion.

What people fail to mention that with using relays to drive current to the lights instead of the stock wiring, you no longer have to replace your headlight switch every 10-20 years. That switch is now a relay controller where before the current from the battery to the switch to the dimmer switch then to the headlights generated a ton of heat that toasted the headlight switch. All that voltage had to go somewhere. It was converted to heat through resistance in all that wire.
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