Re: Foglight/high beam bypass
 

Roughly 1/6/04 16:39, Jerry Newton's monkeys randomly typed:

> Pardon my ignorance, but I am wondering what the point is. Why in the heck
> is it so popular to modify the circuit so that you can run high beams and
> fog lamps simultaneously? Do you not have fog where you live?

If you have high beams with a good top cutoff pattern, they
are actually useful in fog, particularly in combination with
low attenuation high polarization glasses...you can see further
with the high beams than you can with a low beam *IF* they
have a good top cut. This can be kinda useful in seeing
the road in west coast or imperial valley tule fog, particularly
so in the daytime where the sun tends to scatter and overwhelm
a low beam for spotting road beads, etc.

However, the high beam doesn't do that good in lighting up
right in front of you... a fog light works better and can
be aimed a bit downward from normal to do even better yet
if you hack it so it comes on any time you want.

I use this in the really scary tule fogs that love to set
just east of I-5 in the inner california valley all the
way to the sierra foothills, where you may not see sunlight
for days.


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Fan of the dumbest team in America.

Re: Foglight/high beam bypass
 

Roughly 1/6/04 16:39, Jerry Newton's monkeys randomly typed:

> Pardon my ignorance, but I am wondering what the point is. Why in the heck
> is it so popular to modify the circuit so that you can run high beams and
> fog lamps simultaneously? Do you not have fog where you live?

If you have high beams with a good top cutoff pattern, they
are actually useful in fog, particularly in combination with
low attenuation high polarization glasses...you can see further
with the high beams than you can with a low beam *IF* they
have a good top cut. This can be kinda useful in seeing
the road in west coast or imperial valley tule fog, particularly
so in the daytime where the sun tends to scatter and overwhelm
a low beam for spotting road beads, etc.

However, the high beam doesn't do that good in lighting up
right in front of you... a fog light works better and can
be aimed a bit downward from normal to do even better yet
if you hack it so it comes on any time you want.

I use this in the really scary tule fogs that love to set
just east of I-5 in the inner california valley all the
way to the sierra foothills, where you may not see sunlight
for days.


--
Fan of the dumbest team in America.