"Diamond projection headlamps" ?????

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"Diamond projection headlamps" ?????

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Saw these listed on E-bay, was curious if anyone knows anything about them.
Just a random thought, anything has to be better than the old ATLAS beams. :lol: :lol:
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These sound pretty much the same as the H4 conversions (like LMC sells) that allow you to use a more modern housing/replaceable bulb type assembly instead of the sealed beam lights we use today. I think the "Diamond cut" thing is just a trademark.

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Is anyone runnin' those new lights from the cover of the LMC catalog? Think they look cool and would work well on the '66 and '71 with the relay rewire obviously.

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yeah you would want to throw some relays on it to cause just the lights them self with the stock wiring isn't going to do any good.
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relays will even make the old atlas beams a little brighter, because there wont be such a drastic voltage drop thru the factory wiring.
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i have them but they are all 90/100 watters you probably only want a 55/65 set up. it was probably needing replaced anyways but i think the 90/100's cuased my ligh switch to kill over.
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even with a relay system that 390nut is making the light switch would not be able to handle the 90/100 system?? Am i reading this correct.
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Tim P. wrote:even with a relay system that 390nut is making the light switch would not be able to handle the 90/100 system?? Am i reading this correct.
Don't think thats what he means. The relays only draw 30milliamps through the headlight switch instead of the 10amps or so from the stock bulbs.

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So with that harness and new headlight switch I could run the 90/100 upgrades
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i run 100w hellas on the roof of my trucks , they run thru a relay and use only a standard on-off switch so it should not cause any problem with the stock headlight switch.
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Tim P. wrote:So with that harness and new headlight switch I could run the 90/100 upgrades
Correct. The common bosch relays are good for 30 amps. Ideally that would handle 12volts x 30amps = 360watts of power.

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Kewl :thup:
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