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Yorkshire90

Member Since: 22 Sep 2011
Location: West Yorkshire
Posts: 193

boode wrote:

Excellent product and very good service from Tim.

Seconded. Excellent product. If I can get these kids reports finished off I'll be adding a review with plenty of day and night pictures. The DRL side lights are bright enough for use as headlights

"Big green" 2000 Td5 90 IRB Developments modified (2004-2011)

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15th Jul 2012 4:20pm

mobilecentre

Member Since: 05 Mar 2012
Location: Evesham
Posts: 645

Voltage sensing relays start at £10

http://www.mobilecentre.co.uk/index.php?ma...cts_id=536

You input a permanent live and it will then switch the output live on only when the engine is running, this can be used on the DRL to simplify the process and enable connection underbonnet.

I would not advise using the alternator trigger wire, and the output is of course permanently live as it is connected to the battery. Our DRL kits uses less than than 1A of power to drive both lamps.

16th Jul 2012 9:04am

Tazz

Member Since: 24 Mar 2011
Location: Harrow
Posts: 90

Thanks for all the replies.

Looks like I may need to start saving if I want to go the whole way and switch completely to LEDs. You've given me plenty to think about in the meantime.

19th Jul 2012 11:31pm

davew

Member Since: 02 Jan 2012
Location: North Yorkshire
Posts: 888

1990 Defender 90 V8 Petrol PU Auto Rioja Red

You could use a changeover (5 pin) relay as a simple way to kill the lights when you turn the sidelights on. The extra contact provides a "normally closed" circuit that is connected when the relay isn't activated. Configure it so that it is activated by the sidelight circuit and the normally closed circuit goes open.

20th Jul 2012 12:18am

WelshGas

Member Since: 01 Oct 2010
Location: Vale of Glamorgan
Posts: 935

2010 Defender 90 Puma 2.4 XS CSW Santorini Black

Hi, I'm not an electrical guru but I if you use a 5 pin switch relay you would wire the feed from the side lights to pin 87a????

Any advice much appreciated. :thumbsup:

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20th Jul 2012 5:21am

LR90XS2011

Member Since: 05 Apr 2011
Location: bickenhill
Posts: 3641

2011 Defender 90 Puma 2.4 XS CSW Galway Green

Halfords do RING LED DRL kits with everything in them for you to get the Killer or Alive DRL Bumper look, alternatively you could fit MINI head lamps that have a side light in them and swap the bulbs in the Land Rover side lights to LEDs and do the associated wiring changes either way it wont cost more than £100 probably much less if you are good with wiring DEFENDER 90 TDCI XS,

I hope everyone is well and your land rovers make you happy

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20th Jul 2012 6:43am

blackwolf

Member Since: 03 Nov 2009
Location: South West England
Posts: 17382

2007 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 DCPU Stornoway Grey

If you have a Puma and need an "engine running" signal, there is one available from the connector on the instrument cluster. It's normal use is for the heated windscreen circuit - the heated screen is only powered if the engine is running. Details are available on at least one of the heated screen threads on this forum.

20th Jul 2012 8:07am

mobilecentre

Member Since: 05 Mar 2012
Location: Evesham
Posts: 645

Our kit comes with a pre made loom that will plug into any Defender after 1996 and requires a single connection to an igntion live. All the rest is done automatically and as they replace existing lights no hole drilling / bumper cutting is required.

We have changed our bumper fabricator recently and have got a batch of different bumpers coming in with "various" options including our DRL version so watch this space!

20th Jul 2012 8:35am

WelshGas

Member Since: 01 Oct 2010
Location: Vale of Glamorgan
Posts: 935

Sorted. Thanks for the info about the 5 pin relay. Already had an ignition powered relay that supplied power to a unit with 3 cigarette type sockets for the sat nav and phone which also powered the DRL's . So I've used the output from that to provide the power input to the 5 pin relay and hence DLR's and then a feed from the side lights which switches that relay off when they are switched on which breaks the DRL circuit. Thanks for the tip. Totally legal now.

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20th Jul 2012 6:45pm

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