home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!camco1!bill
- From: bill@Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell)
- Subject: Re: fog lamps
- Organization: Celestial Software, Mercer Island, WA
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 07:38:22 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.073822.15085@Celestial.COM>
- References: <1993Jan22.055406.10248@spdc.ti.com> <1993Jan22.154407.17507@colorado.edu> <1jpieuINNod6@shelley.u.washington.edu> <1993Jan25.215055.17522@colorado.edu> <1993Jan26.003046.5265@Happy-Man.com>
- Lines: 47
-
- In <1993Jan26.003046.5265@Happy-Man.com> josh@Happy-Man.com (Joshua_Putnam) writes:
-
- :In <1993Jan25.215055.17522@colorado.edu> bowmanj@csn.org (Jerry Bowman) writes:
-
- :> How many damned times do you hane to be told ? WHEN ADJUSTED
-
- :> PROPERLY THEY DO NOT BLIND ON COMING DRIVERS! GOT IT NOW ?
-
- :Apparently, the people you really need to convince are the ones
- :looking at your lights. They seem to have misinterpreted the
- :light as glare. Maybe if you explain it to them their eyes will
- :react differently and they won't object to the glare enough to
- :flash their high beams at you.
-
- :(Remember, that's where this started, someone being tired of
- :getting high-beams flashed in his face all the time. That's a sign
- :people in a position to know think his lights are glaring in their
- :eyes.)
-
- A nice simple rule is never to let oncoming traffic ever see your
- driving lights or high beams. IMHO these lights should be wired
- to a relay on the high-beam side so they automatically go off
- when the lights are dimmed. This is how I wired the ``Super
- Oscars'' I had on my '67 Cortina the I raced in IMSA Baby Grand
- and drove on the street. I could boil water at a hundred yards
- with those lights, but nobody coming towards me ever saw them
- (unless of coarse they had their hi-beams on :-).
-
- :I assume of course you aren't using these in wet weather? You do
- :understand that a low-mounted light pointed down at a wet surface
- :reflects up in the face of oncoming drivers, right? That's one
- :problem with people claiming that any wattage of light is fine as
- :long as the beam has a sharp cutoff -- it assumes no significant
- :reflective glare, which simply isn't true in many conditions.
-
- Properly set up fog lights should probably be wired so that the
- headlights are turned off completely when the fog lights are on.
- One of the biggest problems driving in fog is the light being
- reflected back by the fog and the low position and sharp cutoff
- of the fog lights is designed to minimize back glare.
-
- Bill
- --
- INTERNET: bill@Celestial.COM Bill Campbell; Celestial Software
- UUCP: ...!thebes!camco!bill 6641 East Mercer Way
- uunet!camco!bill Mercer Island, WA 98040; (206) 947-5591
- SPEED COSTS MONEY -- HOW FAST DO YOU WANT TO GO?
-