Originally posted by TheGreatOne:
no you're not cause the only time the
draw is that much is when the starters go off...which is
all of less than a second. Once the bulbs are lit I think they actually draw less current then a regular bulb, but
anyway, they dont' draw 20amps all the time. My car would
have burned down a long time ago.
That's not 100% true. The HID starter circuit produces high
current draw for SEVERAL seconds in the begining as actual
bulb voltage starts out at 23kV and slowly tapers down to 85V
after about 10 or so seconds. That eqates to around 11-14
amps of ballast draw cold, tapering down to 3.5 amps at normal hot run mode.
On my car, I still just went on ahead and installed a high-current relay harness similar to this one:
http://suvlights.tripod.com/suvlightscom/html/wire-harness.htm
so as to avoid that first 10 seconds of overcurrent in the
vehicle's harness. I don't want future problems like relays eventually going bad and stuff like that. I
actually built my harness from scratch, but suvlights.com
has these premade ones that are just as good.
