[TR] Monocularity

[Tony Drews]

But then you'll no longer have the dim yellow headlights characteristic 
of the Lucas system!  I'd note that when my Dad drove up in his TR-6 at 
nigh.  I'm sure it will be a fantastic upgrade once you get it sorted.

Cheers, Tony

On 7/5/2021 4:49 PM, TeriAnn J. Wakeman wrote:
> On 7/5/21 12:45 PM, Tom Walling wrote:
>> Trying to get the headlight relay kit (Moss p/n 117-515) to work on 
>> my TR6.
>> I know I've done something wrong as only one headlight at a time will 
>> light-up. When I use low-beam, the left light lights, then high-beam 
>> and the right one lights up and the left one goes out. The 
>> instructions are not all that clear about what to hook into what, but 
>> I know I haven't switched (or mixed) the blue/white and blue/red 
>> wires and I have them connected to the bulb wires correctly too.
>> I did replace the headlight "pig tails" with ones from British 
>> Wiring. Could they have mixed the blue/red and blue/white wires? I 
>> think that may cause this interesting problem, but I'm not sure.
>
>
> Not having seen your circuit. There should be a blue/white wire coming 
> from your dimmer switch to the coil of one relay, and a blue red wire 
> coming from your dimmer switch to the coil of the other relay. Both 
> relays should have one relay contact to Battery, via a fuse. The other 
> relay contact of the relay with the blue/white coil wire gets a 
> blue/white wire from each headlamp socket. The other relay with the 
> blue/red coil wire gets the blue/red wire from each of the two light 
> sockets. Light socket black wire to chassis ground.
>
> Sounds like you wired one headlamp to one relay and the other headlamp 
> to the other relay. The Lucas wire colour code is your friend. One 
> coil gets blue/white (high beam) from both headlights and the other 
> relay gets Blue/red (low beam) wire from each of the headlamps.
>
> And if your wiring kit doesn't come with the correct colour code yell 
> at Moss for sourcing generic junk.
>
> TeriAnn
>
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