What the Squirrel said. I have that alarm (Van-Cafe sells it) because
I killed my start battery with the parking lights...

Jeff in Marin

On Jul 28, 2011, at 3:18 PM, Automatic digest processor wrote:

> Date:    Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:55:17 -0700
> From:    Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Re: Headlight Alarm
>
> No need? Horse hockey.
>
> Using the bulb type data from my '84's owner's manual, and not
> counting
> the bulbs in the dash:
>
> 4 x type 1034 bulbs (2 front parking, 2 rear tail), assuming the lower
> wattage filaments are lit @ 1.34A each = 5.4 amps
> 2 x type 1816 (rear side markers) @ .33A = 0.66 amps
>
> Total: 6 amps/hours.
>
> You leave those on overnight, say 12 hours, and you've pulled 72 amp
> hours out of the battery.
>
> I'm keeping my buzzer wired thankyouverymuch.
>
> --
> RJS