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 Anthiron
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| posted on September 30th, 2005 at 12:44 PM |
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is 7 wire trailer loom thick enough wire to use for lights etc?
im rewiring my baja and want it to be nice and neat and pretty. is the wire in trailer loom to thin to use for head lights and spotties etc?
Nick
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| posted on September 30th, 2005 at 03:05 PM |
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Work it out. 55 watts divided by 12 volts = 4.6amps per headlight. The cable is rated at 10 amps I think so it should be fine for the headlights if
you run core to each headlight and not parallel them up. For the spotlights I doubt if it will cut it. 100 watt spotties? The cable would run warm at
the least. If you doubled up the wires you would be ok though.
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Anthiron
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| posted on September 30th, 2005 at 10:45 PM |
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yeah was gonna run a line of the loom to each side so should be fine. thanks for the tip. ivew just got some 50 watters on there at the moment and
will run thicker seperate lines for the 100 watters ive got o the shelf then.
Nick
62/60 model bug eye baja bug, (Full Build in Progress)
1974 Chevrolet Luv
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1979 Yamaha RX125 Two Stroke tracker project.
2004 Harley Davidson Sportster XL Custom
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| posted on October 1st, 2005 at 02:22 AM |
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7 wire trailer loom is normally 3mm^2
good for tail lights,blinkers etc
NOT for headlights or spotties
(i can give you the formulea for voltage drop per meter for the cross sectional area of a cable..)
my advice -use it for the front clearence lights and the indicators..
but for headlights-4mm for each wire(personally i use 5mm-with an indepedant wire to each)
look up ohms law
and its derivitaves(sp?)
thas why my headlights are white..
;-)
(or use a 6v beetle wiring harness-and look how thick the wires are..and how `white' the lights are)
ohms law strikes again....
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