Headlight Questions: Day Time Running Lights Substitute, different headlights?

[jbsocdelica]

Hi Deli folks;

I've been looking at some of the posts about two interlinked questions that I have below but have come up a little perplexed given my lack of technical know-how.

In short:

1) I do not want the regular headlights going on (Day Time Running Light / DTRL).

2) I want to substitute them for some DTRL LED running lights.

3) What are specific steps I can take in that regard and / or experiences others have had?, i.e.

a) Add on kits that connect to battery (they're about $20 on ebay) and I have easy success wiring those to another
regular car.

b) how to disconnect the main headlight from DTR and still keep normal headlight functioning?


4) I have read in discussion that for headlight substitution, some have re-wired enough to support 100 Watts.

a. How do I do that with really specific instructions?


5) Has anyone converted their headlight system to brighter but lower wattage systems. For example, I wonder if cars like a Nissan Leaf which have to be miserly about energy use put out some much light? I dunno!


Thanks for all!

New Deli!

[lrp374]

Take a look @ this it may answer a few questions ( and perhaps cause a few more )

http://www.delica.ca/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=7815

[sfd_656]

Most drl LED set ups do not meet the requirements of the transportation act. They can and will attract the attention of the CVSE, which leads to a full inspection and all associated costs. I recommend staying with your headlight set up, or doing the research to ensure that your mods will satisfy the CVSE. These guys had my wife and baby pulled over on the side of a busy road for 45 min while they inspected the "unsafe" vehicle.

[jbsocdelica]

Thanks lrp374 and sfd_656 .

Ok, definitely each post gave me things to think about.

I don't know how yet to read the wiring diagram and then buy switches, etc. etc. etc.

And, I appreciate the point about getting pulled over ad nausea for an 'unsafe vehicle.'

So, I'll have to learn more about where to put wires safely and try contacting TardisDeli / fexlboi about where to even begin.

Thanks all!

Peace

Newdeli! / jbsocdelica

[FalcoColumbarius]

Daytime running lamps
4.08 A motor vehicle may be equipped with daytime running lamps, mounted on the front of the vehicle at a height of not less than 30 cm and not more than 2.11 m, that comply with the requirements of the Motor Vehicle Safety Act (Canada).

[en. B.C. Reg. 476/98, s. 2.]

This is from the Motor Vehicle Act, the rest of which can be found in: RHD Political and Legal Matters/Reference Library.

I just use my stock running lamps (first position on the combo-switch).

Falco.

[jbsocdelica]

Falco;

Would you please help answer these two questions (I have a 93 Chamoix L300)?

a) For testing / theoretical purposes only (kids, do not try this at home) I do not want the regular headlights going on (Day Time Running Light / DTRL) unless I turn on / off a switch.

Or

b) For testing / theoretical purposes only (kids, do not try this at home) I do not want the regular headlights going on (Day Time Running Light / DTRL) at all.

Thanks

New Deli!

[Lapprentis]

I did took off a Led Light Strip and replaced it with a Phillips DOT Daytime Running light hooked to the Stering Column Orange Wire + ground. Like it. Probably consume not that much and go on when key to on position. Open the PDF Attachement for the results on my Van.
Lapprentis

[FalcoColumbarius]

Falco;

Can help answer these two questions (I have a 93 Chamoix L300)?

a) For testing / theoretical purposes only (kids, do not try this at home) I do not want the regular headlights going on (Day Time Running Light / DTRL) unless I turn on / off a switch.

Or

b) For testing / theoretical purposes only (kids, do not try this at home) I do not want the regular headlights going on (Day Time Running Light / DTRL) at all.

Thanks

New Deli!

As I said ~ "I just use my stock running lamps (first position on the combo-switch)." According to the Motor Vehicle Act you "may" equip your motor vehicle with DRLs. Sounds like permission and not an order to me. I hate it when I have some twit behind me with his high beams lighting up my cabin and reflecting via my mirrors into my eyes, distracting me from driving and when I ask him to turn his high beams off he replies repugnantly that these are his daytime running lamps and they are for safety.

Falco.

[bosc]

Easily disconnected by removing and bypassing the drl module. I pulled mine out 8 years ago no issues.
If you want LED I would add it as an accessory. I placed mine on the switch that had the "fog lamps". Works well, but just for off road use.
B

[jbsocdelica]

Ok took off for the holidays; (and one day noted my deli was a little hot going up hills and then dropped nicely down after slowing down and going down hill). Now that I'm back in wifi connection....

1. bosc; can you provide specific instructions / links and / or photos on how to do (disconnecting / removing and bypassing the drl module).

2. Falco; I do like the 'permission' point by the way.

3. Lapprentis: I like the location of the lights! When I do mine, I'll post picture as well... Must say the front of yours looks cleaner than mine! I still have the fog lights (which I love for lighting up the immediate road)

Thanks as always

NewDeli

[FalcoColumbarius]

...

2. Falco; I do like the 'permission' point by the way.
...
NewDeli

It gets my goat, eh? Especially the Jeeps. It's illegal to drive with high beams on in built up areas or oncoming traffic &c., yet if you call them DRLs then that's "okay", yah? Constable, that is not a loaded firearm I'm brazenly brandishing ~ it's my personal safety appliance. I'm reading a little Jack Kerouac at the moment so I'm finding a little solace in that.

Falco.

[jbsocdelica]

Falco;

Birds singing
in the dark
—Rainy dawn.

Delica driving,
driven in the dawn,
It's raining.

My Delica sings,
it chortles, it snorts,
gets me there.

and...

I saw the best
minds of my generation
not driving a deli.

NewDeli!

[FalcoColumbarius]

Dude... Coming from the Great North West, Japhy Ryder would appreciate your kindly haiku sentiments.

Falco.

[jbsocdelica]

To the Gary Snyders of the world then!

So, where do I find that DTRL module to disconnect (of course for testing / scientific inquiry purposes only)

Peace

New Deli!

p.s. from an author you'd enjoy...

"Lay down these words
Before your mind like rocks.
placed solid, by hands
In choice of place, set
Before the body of the mind
in space and time:
Solidity of bark, leaf, or wall
riprap of things:
Cobble of milky way,
straying planets,
These poems, people,
lost ponies with
Dragging saddles—
and rocky sure-foot trails.

The worlds like an endless
four-dimensional
Game of Go.
ants and pebbles
In the thin loam, each rock a word
a creek-washed stone
Granite: ingrained
with torment of fire and weight
Crystal and sediment linked hot
all change, in thoughts,
As well as things.