Great question! I added a pair of halogen lights to my badge bar with the
plan to run them as day lights for additional safety. I ended up running
down the battery. I then tried to convert to an alternator, which I bought
from Gerry Felper. I got pretty far along in that project before
discovering that it would not work for a positive ground system. Since I
had already transistorized my clock and fuel pump I wasn't willing to switch
over to negative ground. Finally, I tried tweaking the voltage regulator to
increase generator output, which after several weeks fried my battery. I'm
still in the relative dark, and frustrated by the project. I'd be happy to
know what others have done to solve this problem.
Andy Moyce
52 TD
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nels Anderson" <nels@flightsim.com>
To: <mg-t@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2003 12:32 PM
Subject: Additional Lighting
> Having now done some driving at night with the TD it's clear that some
> additional lighting would be nice. I see quite a few TD's do have fog or
> driving lights but the electrical system makes me wonder...the TD
> generator only puts out 19 amps so it seems like there's not a whole lot
> of excess capacity for adding additional lighting. Or am I worrying over
> nothing? If it matters, I have the Moss part #140-300 generator which is
> supposed to be an exact duplicate of the original. Is this up to
> powering a pair of fog lights?
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