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Subject:Re: round > square headlight conversion / Lamp Life
From:David Brodbeck
Date:Wed, 4 Jun 2003 12:08:07 -0400

On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, mark drillock wrote:

> Some of the voltage drop in Vanagon headlight wiring is due to aging
> grounds and corrosion at the common grounding points under the dash.
> Don't overlook adding better grounds when adding relays. In some cases
> improving the grounds makes a bigger difference than adding the relays.

Yup.  I know about a third of my overall voltage drop is in the grounds,
much of the rest is probably corroded fusebox connections.  I need to go
on a cleaning-and-tightening spree one of these days.

David Brodbeck, N8SRE
'82 Diesel Westfalia
'94 Honda Civic Si