<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Does the solonoid move the bulb? If it does I suspect it changes how the light hits the reflector and thus gives you a dipped/main beam. <div>The fact that the headlight on has 2 wires <br>Supports this as well as it is fitted on the left (away from on coming traffic)</div><div>Rick<br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Aug 10, 2020, at 9:58 AM, simon.lachlan@alexarevel.plus.com wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"><!--[if !mso]><style>v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Does it, or did it ever, have after-market bulbs which would have fried its tender wiring? Plainly, not modern ones……but something which, by the standards of the time, actually produced some illumination but at the cost of too many amps…..<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">If the two headlights are connected, which I’m pretty sure they must be, that might explain why there’s only one solenoid ie relay…..<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I am NOT much of an electrician to be sure, but that’d be my first suspicion.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Simon<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Healeys <healeys-bounces@autox.team.net> <b>On Behalf Of </b>S.Carr via Healeys<br><b>Sent:</b> 10 August 2020 18:36<br><b>To:</b> healeys <healeys@autox.team.net><br><b>Subject:</b> [Healeys] non-Healey puzzle<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">My mechanic (theoretically retired but who takes the occasional job that nobody else around here will touch) is working on a Jaguar SS-100. The RH (driver’s) side headlamp is “normal” – two wires. What on earth is this contraption on the LH headlamp? He’s never seen a headlamp with a solenoid and these other bits. ( I once had a late-‘30s MG-SA and I don’t remember the headlamps having anything like this!)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">TIA,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Sarah Carr<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">BN1 in PA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><div><image001.jpg></div></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><div><image002.jpg></div></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows 10<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.html</span><br><span>Suggested annual donation $12.75</span><br><span></span><br><span>Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/healeys http://autox.team.net/archive</span><br><span></span><br><span>Healeys@autox.team.net</span><br><span>http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/healeys</span><br><span></span><br><span>Unsubscribe/Manage: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/healeys/richard.ewald@gmail.com</span><br><span></span><br></div></blockquote></div></body></html>