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bully3176 Member Since: 07 Feb 2019 Location: Cookley Posts: 27 |
No do you have a link for the yellow led parts? |
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11th Feb 2019 11:41 am |
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Largered Member Since: 10 Jul 2016 Location: UK Posts: 1978 |
I used these from eBay. (for the LEDs)
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11th Feb 2019 12:16 pm |
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bully3176 Member Since: 07 Feb 2019 Location: Cookley Posts: 27 |
Nice one thank you |
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11th Feb 2019 12:27 pm |
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Bobupndown Member Since: 26 Dec 2014 Location: Upside down behind the TV! Posts: 2791 |
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3rd Jan 2023 5:58 pm |
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Lakelander Member Since: 07 Nov 2019 Location: Cumbria Posts: 238 |
Great - that looks really professional!
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3rd Jan 2023 6:23 pm |
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Martin S Member Since: 23 Apr 2022 Location: Buckingham Posts: 18 |
Hi, I like your conversion but I have a bar with a bracket that fits behind the numberplate. I am planning to drill the bumper and go as far as the metal cross member to find a solid mounting. Question is how far back - behind the bumper - is the crossmember and are there any wires, tubes etc that could be in the way. I plan to fit rivnuts to secure the bracket and can make up an ally spacer on the lathe so the bumper does not distort. I also plan to wire the bar into the headlight main beam - via a relay - with a switch so that I can have turn the bar off if not needed. Where do I take the main beam sensor take off from. My car is a very late 2014 production SE Tech with the H7 bulbs. In previous vehicles I have just taken this off the main beam wire of one of the head lights but these don’t have a 2 filament bulb?
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6th May 2023 5:06 pm |
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Nodge68 Member Since: 15 Jul 2020 Location: Newquay Posts: 2071 |
Personally I'd not be drilling holes in a £10k vehicle.
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6th May 2023 6:31 pm |
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Martin S Member Since: 23 Apr 2022 Location: Buckingham Posts: 18 |
Thanks for the reply. The holes would be covered by the numberplate so will never be seen and I don’t think to fit the bracket with big self tappers would be engineeringly sound and the bar would flutter across bumps etc, so that’s why I want to bolt it on to something strong.
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7th May 2023 9:06 am |
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BossBob Member Since: 30 Sep 2010 Location: Bristol Posts: 1369 |
FET is short for field effect transistor. They are in effect, solid state fuses. They stop conducting in an over current state and reset when the condition is corrected and power cycled. |
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7th May 2023 9:30 am |
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Nodge68 Member Since: 15 Jul 2020 Location: Newquay Posts: 2071 |
The FETs (Field Effect Transistors) are the power switches used in modern vehicles instead of relays. They work an a similar fashion to a relay, only they are smaller, solid state and much faster switching than a relay, oh and are soldered to the circuit board in the CJB. They are also very low resistance compared to a relay, and so can be used to monitor current flowing in the circuit they are switching, eliminating the need for fuses, as well as monitoring bulbs in the circuit, although this ability isn't utilised in the Freelander 2.
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7th May 2023 10:45 am |
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Martin S Member Since: 23 Apr 2022 Location: Buckingham Posts: 18 |
Hi Norge, thanks for the reply. As I said in my earlier post ‘ electrics are a dark art to me’ ! I know that a diode is but does this diode have a ‘rating’ or will just any diode do I can get one off eBay or Amazon. And where do you fit it? Does it go between terminals on the relay or between one of the relay terminals and earth? I haven’t a clue on these things! 😕😩🤓. Does anyone have a photo of one one fitted? |
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8th May 2023 7:48 am |
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Nodge68 Member Since: 15 Jul 2020 Location: Newquay Posts: 2071 |
A diode used as in a reverse blocking diode configuration is easy.
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8th May 2023 12:27 pm |
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