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#662078 09/14/2020 8:32 AM
by Themorganeer
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Interesting experience last night.

While driving home in the dark on flicking to main beam both headlights extinguished, Main and dip. Found ourselves with the wing mounted side lights on and generally in not a happy situation to be in. All indicators were also disabled, although the hazards still worked. The dash light was still showing blue!

On limping home I found to my amazement the replacement of a single blown 10A fuse in the main fusebox restored all headlights and indicators.

This cannot be right for obvious reasons and a main dealer visit is a certainty before any more night driving.

Any thoughts from the collective as to the root cause?
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#816319 Jan 27th a 02:02 PM
by Hamwich
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Originally Posted by RichardV6
Typically there aren't any relays for dip/main headlamp control. The only Morgan I'm aware of that does use one is the 5 speed V twin M3W. I know some have added them to save the dip/main light switch contacts but it's designed to cope so unnecessary extra complexity in my view.

Using a relay for spotlamps is advisable though, however if the car used LED's all round you could easily get away without.

True for more recent models but the older stuff had sealed-beam headlamps at something like 35W. Bunging in a pair of 55/60W halogens leads to quite an increase in current through the dipswitch which will burn them out if relays are not fitted. I learned this the hard way.
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