Thread: Looking for recommendations for rear mounted work light

Originally Posted by Vern

Oh please, so you're saying all your relays are dust free?

Not hard to achieve with some heatshrink and some silicon, Not only dust free but also water resistant as well

Originally Posted by trout1105

Not hard to achieve with some heatshrink and some silicon, Not only dust free but also water resistant as well

why not keep to the kiss principle ----- this is the problem of modern cars running telemetry systems to computers on low voltages and low current inputs going bush into dusty areas and expecting to last forever

Originally Posted by muddy

why not keep to the kiss principle ----- this is the problem of modern cars running telemetry systems to computers on low voltages and low current inputs going bush into dusty areas and expecting to last forever

It isn't overcomplicated things at all.
It is doing the job properly instead of doing a half arsed job.

Originally Posted by Vern

Theres nothing complicated about it, but making the system more complicated than it needs to be then it just becomes another to for it to fail.

A bit off topic,but after 70 yrs,LR still havent worked that one out......

Originally Posted by trout1105

It isn't overcomplicated things at all.
It is doing the job properly instead of doing a half arsed job.

Who says not using a relay isn't doing it properly and half arsed?

Originally Posted by trout1105

It isn't overcomplicated things at all.
It is doing the job properly instead of doing a half arsed job.

my point is why add to a circuit to create another weak link

how many of us that go into an auto shop and ask for wipe contacts on relays

ordinary relays are not dust sealed because they are designed to carrying some form of load/current which cleans them

Originally Posted by muddy

my point is why add to a circuit to create another weak link

how many of us that go into an auto shop and ask for wipe contacts on relays

ordinary relays are not dust sealed because they are designed to carrying some form of load/current which cleans them

For a start Most relays ARE now sealed and I have never heard about self cleaning contacts on a relay and if you are paying to have the contacts cleaned (wiped) on a modern relay you are getting ripped off.

On the old school relays they had a set of contacts not unlike a set of ignition points and these Did benefit a clean periodically But we are in the 21st century and these types of older style relays only exist on cars 6+ decades old.

You mob wire up the way you want to it doesn't matter to me, Just make sure you fire extinguisher is handy

Originally Posted by trout1105

You mob wire up the way you want to it doesn't matter to me, Just make sure you fire extinguisher is handy

Ummm thats what the fuse is there for. Relay won't stop a fire