[AT] Tractor lighting puzzler

[Len Rugen]

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From: "Robert L. Holtzer" <rholtzer at earthlink.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 10:26 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Tractor lighting puzzler


> John, it sounds like the light filaments were going to ground through one 
> of the filament circuits -- putting the filaments in series resulting in 
> dim light.
>
> I will have to check the light switch on my TO-35 to see how it 
> switches -- 
> lights aren't installed presently.  I don't recall hearing of having high 
> and low filaments on at the same time -- is this a tractor thing?  Maybe 
> someone on the list can comment.
>
> Bob Holtzer
>
> At 01:22 PM 11/7/2004 -0800, you wrote:
>>This is a good one.  I installed two new low beam and two new high beam 
>>headlights on my MF 175--one each on each fender.  The low beams and high 
>>beams each had their separate wiring to the light switch.  They are wired 
>>so in switch position 1 only the low beams come on; in switch position 2 
>>both high and low beams come on, and in switch position 3 only the high 
>>beams come on.  The first time I tried them the lights on the right fender 
>>worked according to plan, but in ALL switch positions the lights on the 
>>left fender BOTH came on VERY dim--together.  Obviously the right fender 
>>was not grounded good enough so I added a ground wire from tractor frame 
>>to the fender--which cleared up the problem..       The puzzler to me 
>>is--before I grounded the right fender why did BOTH lights on the right 
>>fender come on (very dim) even with the switch energizing only one circuit 
>>(high or low beam)??????????????        Electricity always has been a 
>>"challenge" to this old guy!    John
>>
>>                    In the wide-open spaces of NE Oregon
>>
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