If resistance increases for reasons like long wires, poor connections, heat then the voltage drops and you need bigger wire to supply the required amps and therefore the wattage your lites need. Another guideline is the same as house wiring, 14 gauge wire = max current 15 amps, 12 gauge wire = 20 amps, 10 gauge wire = 30 amps and so on. So it is easy to determine if your lights are overloading a circuit. Wattage is a power used number and can be found by multiplying volts X amps ( Watts = Volts X Amps) or that formula can be worked to find amps, which is The other issue here is power draw on the existing wiring in any unit. But we just don't need our computers getting screwed up from unnecessary interference. This seems like a different problem though that what is happening here with lights causing interference in a AM/FM radio. I do not have any experience with electrical interference from any type of lights but I do remember back in the 80s when I would key the mic on the CB and it would either stop the header or start the unloading auger, and not always at a good time! That was an early canbus system I think and I had to use a marine antennae that was remote grounded. Sorry for piling so many questions on you but I know so very little about them, never have experimented with HID at all yet. Just don't want to create even more of a hazard in that way as JD did a poor job of designing where it allowed the stray rays to fall as it should never have been designed to shine against the windshield at all.Ī few posts back it was said about soldering wires, isn't it somewhat of a plug and play system of the HID harness plugging into the existing female portion of the combines harness that would normally plug into the halogen bulb ?. Does anyone notice more problems with the brighter lights and the dust issue on the windshield causing it to blind the driver as its very bad as it is, its like the window becomes a wall between the eyes of the driver and where your supposed to be able to see and it builds up in no time in our conditions. I wonder if there is a unit out there that they have solved the interference issue with.
I could see complaints from my brother and the "old feller" we try to hire if we can when it comes to the radio not working properly and then myself, I hop in when its stupid late out and trying to stay awake !.
Also what series of halogen bulb comes as standard in the 9600 as I have yet to have a need to pull one to replace. So what watt units have you been installing in the 9600 specifically and for that matter color temperature of the light ?. I have around 40-50 of them kits and 30-40 led light bars of various sizes and also have a few led replacement bulbs, the led bulbs work pretty good in the front of our 865B, not exceptional but a good improvement over halogenĬhompy, where are you getting your HID units from as there seem to be a few brands and models within brands that fit in the same bulb number fitment category, not to mention rated wattage draw. Yes they can be a bit finiky but I have found people that install them do half a$$ jobs of connecting wires, I soldier all the connections, and I have also found things that were a problem waiting to happen such as poor connections at starter, alternator, relays, on a 9600 the relay/fuse box is in the engine compartment witch is a long way to the cab through too small of wire to take the startup draw, they take an up to par wiring but the draw is not any higher of the halogen accept for startup. Of course that isn't to say it shouldn't be done but expect there are brands and wattages that would fit our JD's in this case better then going and overloading the system.
That sort of cooled my enthusiasm a little over the idea of realizing the lights won't come on and certainly don't have time to mess around with issues like that when trying to get crop off in our narrow little window of opportunity. Also possible circuit breaker tripping issues and again to get them up and running.
A while back someone on here was talking about having installed the HID conversion kits for the row of lights in the front of the cab of a JD 9600 and had issues with the higher output watt version being hit and miss in "firing up" because of too much voltage drop with the massive amount of initial draw they take to get them going.