Re: Consider buying American!

In article <7glcr3p8r7csldkt9t0tkpfr2g7a3e9kvg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
   still just me <wheeledBobNOSPAM@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >Are you saying every US car ever used relays for this? Besides, 20 amps
> >or so is hardly much of a task for a switch.

> 20 amps is one heck of a load on a simple rotary or light duty level
> switch. 

No it's not. You can make manual switches that handle many times that
load. In any case I've never known a Lucas main lighting switch to fail on
the dozens of old cars I've owned before relay operation became the norm. 


> And I didn't make the original post, but I've never seen an American
> car without a relay for the headlights (Not that I like them at all
> :-). 

Well we would be going back many years if you're talking about when Lucas
didn't use relays for this job. Probably pre '80 or so - although earlier
designs which didn't have them continued to be made.

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