On 11/28/2020 02:13 PM, Steve W. wrote:
micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Sat, 28 Nov 2020 06:18:47 -0600, Vic Smith
wrote:

On Sat, 28 Nov 2020 01:13:08 -0500, micky
wrote:

In alt.home.repair, on Fri, 27 Nov 2020 18:05:44 -0600, Hank Rogers
Remember when we had sealed beam headlights? Plain, cheap Glass.
And they never burned out. Though I decided to get fancy and I
replaced them once with halogen, and those did burn out.
Your memory of sealed beams is different than mine.

Well maybe I didn't drive as much as I could have.



Besides replacing a few on my own
cars, I saw many "one-eyed" cars on the road. That's a rare sight
nowadays.

But I drive less now than I did then, and I was one-eyed twice in the
last two years. Occasionally when I'm facing something reflective, a
store window, certain cars, I test my headlights but I don't know how
long they had been out. There are enough street lights here that
unless I go to the next town at night, I can't tell by how well I can
see.

The trade off with modern lighting is that to get brighter lighting with
the smaller reflectors used they run the bulbs at a higher voltage than
they used to. So an older sealed beam may have been tagged as a 12 volt.
but the filament was set up to run at 14 or higher. So the sealed beams
tended to last a while, unless they were the cheap ones and in poor
mountings.


Also one fog light burned out. Will the police stop you for that? I
guess, if allowed, it would make a good excuse and they like to stop
people.

Nope, fog lights are not required lighting. They can stop you for
headlights, tail brake (although technically the laws state you need two
rear facing brake lights so if the CHMSL is working they cannot give you
a ticket for one out UNLESS it is also the turn lamp) And these days for
not having them on in the rain.


A different situation: I'd bought an old Dodge pickup where someone with
big truck envy had installed clearance lights on the cab. According to
New Hampshire law while they certainly weren't required if they were
there they had to work.