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dennis@home wrote:
On 23/10/2019 08:30, Tim+ wrote:

About 40 years ago my mother bought a Fiat 124 which was the first
car I ever saw with a boot light. I was demonstrating this to my
future father-in-law when we discovered it had no switch but was
permanently on


Um, sounds like ******** to me. So the battery was running flat every
day?

Tim


Car batteries don't run flat every day just because there is a 5W load
on them.
If yours do then buy a working one.

Some of us remember the days of parking lights. No street lighting, so had
to be on all the hours of dark. And with a weedy dynamo.

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*It was all so different before everything changed.

Dave Plowman London SW
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