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1960 FOG LIGHTS NO POWER

Started by 60eldo, February 22, 2013, 10:51:10 AM

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60eldo

  Im still working on my 60 Eldo, trying to get fog lights working but theres no power coming to the lights, could that be in the swictch?
Jon. Klu

Doug Houston

Questions like this are always hard to answer without being on nthe site with a voltmeter, but hara's what you might look at.

On pretty much every car with fog lights(at least Cadillac), fogs are switched from the park light feed, on the dash. What it means is, that if you want fogs, you turn on the park light position of the light switch, then, you turn the fog light switch for fog lights, and the fogs come on, and the park lights go out.

Why all this? If the fog lights are run along with then headlights, the generator doesn't have the current capacity to run the heads and the fogs at the same time. I know that the fog light bulbs in my '41 fog lights are each 50 Candlepower. Add the two of hem to the sealed beam lights, each on low beam, at 50 CP each, and the generator just can't supply that added current. 
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38-9039
39-9057B
41-6227D
41-6019SF
41-6229D
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70-DeV Conv
41-Chev 41-1167
41 Olds 41-3929

dplotkin

Indeed, and why the alternator was introduced for late 62 & 63. Current capacity was increased with a design that allowed the current to be generated in the stationary stator (rather than the rotating armature in the generator). This avoided conveying the load through a comutator & brushes. Yet it required rectification which the newly developed solid state diodes made possible.

Dan
56 Fleetwood Sixty Special (Starlight silver over Dawn Grey)
60 Buick Electra six window
60 Chrysler 300 F Coupe
61 Plymouth Savoy Ram Inducted 413 Superstock
62 Pontiac Bonneville Vista
63 Chevy Impala convertable
63 Ford Galaxie XL fastback
65 Corvette convertable 396
68 Chrysler New Yorker

60eldo

 So with car not running,,, and I have power to the fog lights , they still dont come on,,must I start THE CAR to get them to come on?
Jon. Klu

willits

On my '58, which I imagine is the same as a '60, the car does not need to be on for the lights to work. 

Just pull the headlight switch out to the first detent.  If the fog light switch is off, the parking lights come on, if it is on the fog lights come on. 

Peter
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