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Subject:Re: 12 Volt + Wire Up Rear Pillar? (vent)
From:David Beierl
Date:Sun, 17 Feb 2013 23:18:25 -0500

At 10:53 PM 2/17/2013, neil n wrote:
>https://sites.google.com/site/musomuso/canadian-west-coast-vanagon-owners-association

Whatever that thing is across the bottom, it needs casters. ;-)

>The driving light I may install has a fairly narrow (wide) beam. A
>round light might be better.

Neil dear, what's a narrow wide beam?  Does it differ from a wide
narrow beam? ;-)  Are you taking about a fog light with a fan beam?

The shape of the fixture doesn't matter, it's the shape of the beam
that counts.  A fog light will have a beam that's very thin
vertically with sharp cutoff on the top but has extreme horixontal
spread.  A driving light is typically more of a pencil beam.  You can
tell the fog light because the lens will have prominent vertical ribs
whilst the driving light typically has a clear unpatterned
lens.  Both types obtainable in round or rectangular fixtures.

What I should think you'd want for in back would be a working light
type beam, lots of spread in both directions.  GE has a nice little
4" sealed beam unit that I've seen supplied in a black rubber bumper
mount.  I had one that I meant to put on the '84 Westy but never got
a round tuit.

Yours,
David