[AT] tractor hauler a pain to install headlights.

[farmallgray at aol.com]

Actually there were at least two lighting attachments available on the McCormick 10-20 (and other IHC tractors of the era).
One was acetylene (gas generator) powered and the other used a DC generator that looked similar to a magneto. Later on the F-series (and including the 10-20) they offered one with an inline generator that went between the mag and the governor. 

Todd MarkleSpring Mills, Pa.

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Speaking of tractors.  😀 
When my father bought his new 9N Ford and equipment at the start of WW-II he didn't buy the lighting option. He had a pair of kind of large fog lights and he installed them fender mounted. They were possibly already antiques back then. I do recall that they had flat yellow lenses that were ribbed and chrome housings. I know it had a plow light on the back but I can't make my brain bring up a picture of it. I don't remember a red tail light at all.
When he bought the new Ferguson TO-20 about 1949 he did buy the lighting option and also again on the Ford Jubilee. I think all of the later tractors came with lights as standard equipment. Neither the John Deere MC crawler nor the 40-C that replaced it had any lights, not sure why... Of course the McCormick 10-20 had no idea what a light was other than maybe a flash light.I recall working in the fields early on, mostly in the spring, late at night by moon-light. Plowing was not so bad but sometimes disking or especially drilling it was easy to "lose your place a bit at times. While most of the tractors had lights sometimes they had spells of not working or a generator not charging for a time etc.

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On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 7:35 AM Robert Brooks <rbrooks at hvc.rr.com> wrote:

We had an issue with Joans Suzuki the sensor went bad so all the lights were always on. It was fixed under warranty. Apparently the mechanic had a hard time replacing it

Bob

On Jan 21, 2020, at 10:10 AM, Steve W. <swilliams268 at frontier.com> wrote:
> 
> Phil Auten wrote:
>> I haven't checked my Ford Fusion, but then I just turn the lights on and never use the "auto" position on the switch. My F-150 does not have that option.
>> Phil in TX
> 
> I think there is a bit of confusion in regards to the auto light function and the DRLs.
> 
> Many DRL systems do not turn on all of the lights. They only activate the headlamps at reduced output. There are some that turn on all the lights but they are not the most common.
> 
> The automatic lights usually have a sensor on the dash that detects the exterior light level and turns on all of the lights once the light is below a set level, just as if a human turned the switch.
> 
> I have seen those get fooled though, usually in bad weather where the light gets reflected back to the sensor by for or heavy rain or snow. The backscatter is enough that it exceeds the threshold and the system switches back to the DRLs.
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