One note with the headlight relays is that most installations do not fuse
the relay coils.

Dennis

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Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2013 12:57 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Loss of head lights, wipers and rear heater blower

I have experienced that downside. Had a failure of the rely that controls
the dim-lights for my Volksiebus. Very peculiar - but it happens. One must
just deal with it when it happens. And electrical faults are gong to happen,
sooner or later. Sometimes things fail right out of the box. Had a brand new
$5000 Distance Measuring Equipment (DME) device - the big thing back in it's
day - fail right out of the box. Had to send back to the manufacturer for
replacement weith another brand new replacement. And it can happen so quick.
Jus4t had a coil failure.
Yesterday it worked - this morning it doesn't (actually a few days ago now).
If it's electrical - things just happen that way sometimes.

John

On 12/26/2013 11:18 AM, Dennis Haynes wrote:
> The relays can
> increase headlight output but more should also be done. The downside
> of the relay upgrade is that they do introduce another point of failure.