Re: Euro Switch & High Beams

[John Kilpatrick <kilpatri@evangelion.mti.sgi.com>]

On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, Chris Franson wrote:

> 
> This "overlap" is necessary to ensure that there's no momentary loss of
> illumination when switching between high & low beam. On a Jetta, which
> uses one bulb per side (dual filaments in each), it seems that the
> likelihood of blowing the bulb is pretty good if you keep both lit at
> the same time.
> Chris

Not only that, but if you old it in too long, it buzzes at you. :-)
Some sort of warning, I gather. :-) 

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