[Healeys] Electrical Relays for Lighting System

[Bob Spidell]

I wasn't advocating anything--just passing along some info I thought interesting (and at least marginally related to the topic). 


bs 

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Bob Spidell - San Jose, CA 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Oudesluys" <coudesluijs at chello.nl> 
To: "Bob Spidell" <bspidell at comcast.net> 
Cc: healeys at autox.team.net, "Ron Ray" <ronald-ray at sbcglobal.net> 
Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 8:43:01 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific 
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Electrical Relays for Lighting System 

Bob, 
Although you are correct, it is more convenient and way cheaper to 
install old fashioned relays of say 35A. They are readily available 
including their fitting boxes from various cars in the scrap yard or 
ebay for next to nothing or you can get them new at a general car parts 
store for very little. If things go wrong they are far easier to 
diagnose (you can hear them working) and rectify if you have a few spare 
relays in the boot. 
Kees Oudesluijs 
NL 


Bob Spidell schreef: 
> Just noted in _Auto Restorer_ there is a modern, modular, solid-state 
> equivalent of a bank of relays available for retrofitting older cars. 
> Essentially, one control module sends low voltage signals to remote 
> 'slave' modules that in turn switch battery power to lights, etc. (of 
> course, this is how it's done in new cars). 
> 
> 
> bs 
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> Bob Spidell - San Jose, CA