In a message dated 8/29/98 2:25:48 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
vanagon@VOLKSWAGEN.ORG writes:

<< The next day I looked at my lights.  The H4 is a Phillips "All Weather"
 rated 55/60W and the H3 is an Osram (Bosch) 55W.  These are nothing more
 than what the factory would use.  The only other thing that I am running
 off of the high beam circuit is a relay that controls my two 150W KC
 Daylighters.  Is the factory switch under engineered for the additional
 lights they added in 86 - or it is bad luck in the used switch department? >>

The switch is okay, but VW runs ALL of the current for the lights through the
switch. As far as your relay, it sounds like you may be getting the *current*
(mega-amps) for your Daylighters from the high beam wire. That's a no-no. You
could get the *signal* (mili-amps) from the highbeam wire, and get the current
from the big-main-fat-red-from-the-alternator-to-the-fusebox wire. I used to
run four 150w Daylighters on the front of my 1976 loaf this way. Better set-
up, but of course, it was a better switch, too.

By the way, do any of you have my old loaf? 1976, 2.0 FI refurbished after a
motorfire, secondary external oil cooler mounted in left rear wheel arch (ala
Porsche), VERY clean, no rust, CA original, re-upholstered to mint green
interior, GTi-front seats, white-over-mint-green metallic exterior (originally
marigold yellow), tinted windows, curtains, great Kenwood stereo, four
spotlights on the front. Sold to Alex Deiselkant, student at UNC-Wilmington,
NC in March, 1994. Just curious. We have replaced it, but I sometimes wonder
if it is still loving people and roads, or being used as a chicken coop.

gmbulley
cary, nc
mostly lurkin' and deletin' these days, business is good.