Yep, I know it ..... and visa versa.... makes it interesting.
Robert N. Blair Yellow 65BJ8 RNBmail at yahoo.com
--- On Thu, 11/24/11, Tom Felts <tomfelts at windstream.net> wrote:
> From: Tom Felts <tomfelts at windstream.net>
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Driving lights - spots and fogs.
> To: "Robert Blair" <rnbmail at yahoo.com>, "F Ronald Rader"
<f.ronald.rader at gmail.com>, "Oudesluys" <coudesluijs at chello.nl>
> Cc: "List Healey" <healeys at autox.team.net>
> Date: Thursday, November 24, 2011, 5:42 AM
> I'm sure you are correct, but us
> "Mericans" don't always use the British lingo:)
>
> tom
>
>
> ---- Robert Blair <rnbmail at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> =============
> Tom, Not so....maybe American divers of old British cars
> called them all driving lights, but British drivers of
> British cars called them 'spot lights' [pencil beam] or fog
> lights [fan beam]. I rallied as a kid at college in England.
>
>
> Quite simply the Brits say that all lights are for
> 'driving'.
>
> Robert N. Blair Yellow 65BJ8 RNBmail at yahoo.com
>
>
>
>
>
> --- On Wed, 11/23/11, Tom Felts <tomfelts at windstream.net>
> wrote:
>
> > From: Tom Felts <tomfelts at windstream.net>
> > Subject: Re: [Healeys] Driving lights
> > To: "F Ronald Rader" <f.ronald.rader at gmail.com>,
> "Oudesluys" <coudesluijs at chello.nl>
> > Cc: "List Healey" <healeys at autox.team.net>
> > Date: Wednesday, November 23, 2011, 5:32 AM
> > I think owners of old Brit cars used
> > the term "driving lights" to indicate the extra
> lights
> > mounted up front long before the "modern" car
> "driving
> > light" term came about.
> >
> > So---to me, with reference to old Brit cars, the
> separate
> > large lights on them were "driving lights".
> >
> > tom
> >
> > ---- Oudesluys <coudesluijs at chello.nl>
> > wrote:
> >
> > =============
> > I think there is some confusion about various types
> of
> > lights.
> > It depends how you define the various terms.
> > In my view (but others may differ):
> >
> > -Town lights (USA) are the small front lights, often
> > combined with
> > indicator lights, or incorporated in the headlights.
> > Usually 5W. They
> > are switched on together with the rear lights.
> > -Side lights (USA) are the lights front and rear on
> the
> > front and rear
> > wings on the side of a car. They are switched on
> together
> > with the lights.
> > -Side lights (EU/UK) are the lights referred to as
> town
> > lights in the
> > USA, see above.
> > -Driving lights are separate front lights that are
> used
> > during driving
> > at all time, day and night, like e.g. in Sweden. They
> are
> > switched on as
> > soon as you switch on the ignition. Modern cars have
> them
> > now as LED
> > lights. They are more intense than town or side lights
> and
> > are used on
> > their own (no rear lights) if the other lights are not
> in
> > use. Sometimes
> > they are switched of automaticly when the head lights
> are
> > on.
> > -Spot lights are long range high intensity lights
> > (blinding) and should
> > only be used in combination with high beam, as is laid
> down
> > in law in
> > many states/countries. Often referred to as driving
> lights
> > in the USA.
> > -Fog lights are short broad range high intensity
> lights
> > (non blinding)
> > and should only be used with dimmed headlights or
> town
> > lights. Only for
> > use in dense fog. Often illegal when visibility is
> more
> > than 200
> > meters/yards.
> >
> > Spot and Fog lights should be wired in using relays.
> >
> > Kees Oudesluijs
> > NL
> >
> >
> > Op 22-11-2011 23:51, F Ronald Rader schreef:
> > > Fred,
> > >> Do use a relay. I tie mine to the high
> beams
> > so they come on while hi beam
> > >> is on.
> > > and I have a switch so that i can have the
> driving
> > lights on or off w
> > > the high beams, but they only work w the high
> beams
> > on. ron rader
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