Re: Does the BF falcon have LED tail-lights??

Bugalugs <bugalugs67@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:

>Thanks. I already have HID headlamps as OE although the highbeam is QH 
>and is not much chop. It would be easy to outdrive it.

>I was contemplating changing just the interior lights to give me a bit 
>more margin for when I have another senior moment and walk away leaving 
>a door only partly shut. There will still be the drain of the radio, the 
>clock, and the computer system but it might give me more time to find 
>out I had f*cked up. The last time someone had to come out, pick me up 
>and take me into town to get a new battery. I hate having to call on 
>people to help me out.

Think about how much current a single small festoon lamp will use, and
work
out how much energy that is... It's not a high current (roughly an amp,
perhaps a bit less) for something like a standard size of 12 volt
'festoon'
style filament lamp, and if that's on all the time it will drain the
battery
overnight. 

Few, if any, cars actually fully-disconnect the battery when the car is
turned off and locked up since at least some of the electronics has to be
working for the central-locking remote function to work, and any other
devices that need power all the time (alarm, etc.).

Craig.
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