Perry,
Well, the 7" looks a little large to me, but it is a matter of your personal
preference
I came very close to mounting a pair of 7" hella driving lights. As I was
sitting working on shaping bracket templates., I started working out my energy
budget. I have a stock 22A generator. I concluded that with all the stock
equipment running, I could not sustain the extra power demand of two 100 watt
driving lights!
I think that this is why they mounted one driving light and one fog light. And
they were less than 55 watts each, and only one would be on at a time. An
extra 40 watts is sustainable, but not 200, IMHO. So I switched out my
original Lucas headlights, and installed some H4's. I measured the originals
to draw about only 40 watts and they were pretty dim. I figure the pair of new
55/60W headlights max out my generator and they are quite bright. No need for
driving lights.
But for decoration, some Lucas flamethrower driving lights would look
perfect!
-Tony
> Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:00:01 -0400
> From: Perry Hammock <perryfly@gmail.com>
> To: triumphs@autox.team.net
> Subject: [TR] TR3A....7" versus 5 1/2" driving lights
> Message-ID:
>
> for a number of reasons, including covering up some very minor body damage,
> i am going to install
> driving lights on my 1960 tr3A. I have a set of NOS Lucas driving and fog
> lights in the smaller 5 1/2 inch size.
> I have wiring and relays already installed, thanks to advice from Randall
> some time back.
> Luckily the lights werent on the car when the doofus in teh jacked up
> pickup basked into my car ( but ever so slightly)
> it would be a bit more cosmetically helpful to use 7" lights. Birthday is
> here, so the 7" lights would make a good present ;-)
>
> Car is a ten footer, driven often and fast. Do not want to start
> shipwrights disease project because the whole body would need to be redone.
> Just want to drive, not get into body work at this time. Will save the
> insurance check for the total resoration when I find a perfect body.
>
> Any comments about which looks/fits/works better?
>
> thanks!
>
> Perry HAmmock
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