The plan was to try upgrading the headlights to LED too, check the resulting pattern with a local garage and hopefully drop the headlights power requirements into the bargain.
Picked up some reasonable lamps from ebay which appear to have the right sort of light guide/baffles in place. However...
These particular LEDs only permit high OR low beam on at any one time, turns out the Zero loom leaves both high and low beams on when on high beam mode and when flashing high beams.
It should be a relatively simple mod to the loom to have only high or low beam in all scenarios - but the weather is just not conducive to messing around in the fusebox / lighting loom in an unheated garage. So the car currently sits - headlights removed thus:
A little warmer weather closer to 10ºC and I'll get back on it.
Update - loom adjustment made and installed here.
Update - loom adjustment made and installed here.
So what happens if you use those bulbs with the existing loom? Don't all the LEDs just come on at once on high?
ReplyDeleteNope - the bulbs only ever light high or dip.
ReplyDeleteSo if dip is already lit they simply ignore high and stay on dip.
Just needs a tweak on the loom to use 1x relay for light power and 1x relay feeding from it to select high/dip - forcing only high or dip.