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Originally Posted by buzzkill
i will try a couple things this weekend cause i dont wanna buy a bunch of stuff that doesnt fit. lol
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What did you end up doing?
In Sweden, all vehicles must drive with front-facing white lights on. These lights must be bright enough to be easily seen in full daylight. Most cars seem to have their low-beam headlights wired to turn on with the ignition. Canadian and European Insights apply only 6 volts to the headlights (not sure which beam) in running light mode (i.e., with the ignition switch on but the headlights off).
Having a U.S. Insight, my only option at present is to run with my low beams and taillights on at all times. Now that I have MIMA, I can see that this causes a continual forced regen to occur to keep the 12 v. battery charged. I can use MIMA to provide the necessary regen at more opportune times, but the better solution would be to use more energy-efficient daytime running lights. I might be able to replace the rather dim 5 v. incandescent 168 minibulbs in the front-facing parking lights with something like these
2 w. high-power LED's. Then I could wire these front-facing parking lights to turn on with the ignition with the rear lights turning on only when the parking lights are turned on manually. That would make my daytime running light power draw only 4 w., a small fraction of the power I currently use.
I am a little concerned that these longer LED's might be too long. Were you able to use the longer LED's? If so, were they noticeably brighter than the standard bulbs? The LED that I'm interested in claims to project 105 lumens of light, but I have no idea how that compares with the standard bulb.
