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Any effing idea what this is?
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yella
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fook knows, looks like a voltage stabiliser or something, put it on ebay as a rare electric circuit, it'll fetch a fortune 
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hmm, you reckon I could get a Yank to buy it an authentic British Land Rover Special Edition part?
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probably, they are a bit like that, the old sceptics, did your landy have any special lights on the front or any wierd equipment, being ex jcb and all that
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the aluminium part is a heat sink, which points towards a voltage transformer, take it off the plare and see whats inside
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Re lights, nothing special by the time I came to buy it from Land Rover Centre in Huddersfield anyway. Will go down to garage and have a play with it. Photo to follow...
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It looks like a high wattage load / choke resister or coil to me.
As to why its in the lighting circuit I no idea unless you have some odd lights, in which case they must have a very low starting resistance and this acts as a surge protector.
As to why its in the lighting circuit I no idea unless you have some odd lights, in which case they must have a very low starting resistance and this acts as a surge protector.
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That's a resistor, must have been wired for dim-dip, when side lights are on and engine is running the dip beam comes on at about half brightness.
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Ok, that was a resistor, now go and put it in the bin.
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Resistor was already buggered and was stopping the lights working. Took it off and lights now work fine.
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i notice its an aeriel shot, not showing the ground, does this mean the ground is a barren wasteland covered in dog **** that no one can be bothered to clean up, or are you just showing off cos you got palm trees, not much of a view either, palm trees and the back of a building, pah, id rather live in swindon
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yeah you got me... 'course we live in a squalid mossie infected barren waste land. It is Africa after all... If can sort out the size of the blooming photos will post photos of barren wasteland. Not a touch on Swindon I grant yeh
... sunday at the beach! Better than Swindon v. Macclesfield...
... sunday at the beach! Better than Swindon v. Macclesfield...
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I think you will find that this is wot yu had!
it is a high watt resistor - as already suggested - if it has gone open circuit - that why your lights didnt work. The anodised aluminium can wuth fins is designed to act as a heatsink - coz they get flippin 'ot!
it is a high watt resistor - as already suggested - if it has gone open circuit - that why your lights didnt work. The anodised aluminium can wuth fins is designed to act as a heatsink - coz they get flippin 'ot!
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Hey Mad Hat Man - thanks. Do tell me though please - what exactly does a high watt resistor do and why do you think it was on my Landy?
PS. Ormus - nice shed. Couple of palm trees in the post for you!
PS. Ormus - nice shed. Couple of palm trees in the post for you!
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e resistor reduces the voltage down a wire, but it also has to carry the current (amps) of the device being used (Lights) - assuming these are two 65watt bulbs - this is 130 Watts - it has to disipate this as heat - hence the big heat-sink. I would imagine the idea is to do one of two things.
1) to power the headlights in a dimmed (lower voltage) manner when the side lights where on (as already suggested)
2) to reduce the short circuit load on the rest of the system on cold start of the lights when the filaments are effectively short circuit, therby increasing the bulb life.
Unfortunately without knowing the value of the resistor (do you have one on the other side?) it is almost impossible to determine what it was there for.
I also dont think it matters if your lights now work ok
1) to power the headlights in a dimmed (lower voltage) manner when the side lights where on (as already suggested)
2) to reduce the short circuit load on the rest of the system on cold start of the lights when the filaments are effectively short circuit, therby increasing the bulb life.
Unfortunately without knowing the value of the resistor (do you have one on the other side?) it is almost impossible to determine what it was there for.
I also dont think it matters if your lights now work ok
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ffs daft, yer here agin, i said it was a heat sink three feckin hours ago, nice garden EN bit tidy fer manc innit, i bet the neighbours are envious
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the aluminium part is a heat sink, which points towards a voltage transformer, take it off the plare and see whats inside
which bit of "as already suggested" dont yu understand, Yella - to much time wiv ya hed up a sheeps arse!
I think yu might notice yu also suggested a transformer - only in its widest context in as much as anything that changes summat must transform it in some way - usually not applied to a resistor!!!
now stop arguin and answer my q - or answer the piggin phone!
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