Morris Minor Owners Club

Quick question

What size cable do I require for wiring for fog and spot lights please

Do you mean on the front of the car or a rear fog light ?
Rear fog ( single ) will have a 21 watt bulb .Divide by 12 volts = 1.75 amps. So a " normal "car wire of 14 /0.30 ,1mm squared,8.75 amp will do.

Front fog / front spot / driving lights will have a bulb of say 55 / 100 watts each ? 55w divide by 12 volts =4.583 amps x 2 =9.166 amps. i.e a normal wire 8.75 amps wouldn't cope so you would need a 28/0.30,2mm squared 17.5 amp wire.

Website for Ring Automotive gives " Fitting Instructions for Ring Driving Lamp Set " . It includes a very useful wiring diagram.
It's worth including a relay to cope with the loads.
Bob

Many thanks..... so a pair at the rear and the front so its 2.00mm yellow and red....any ideas where I can get it?

Autosparks sell fancy braided stuff. VehicleWiringProducts sell plastic stuff. Give me a shout if you need any wiring tools! I'm in Llantwit Major.

Rob

Cheers Rob, we have met you have a nice lowlight?

H

We have the Lowlight and you did an article for the magazine on our 'spooky' blue highlight saloon. "When Lara met Laura" or something like that. Even made it to the cover, along with your van.

Russ
The wire should be Red with a yellow tracer ( rather than Yellow / Red ).I'm partially colour blind so I struggle without an
assistant !
It sounds as though Rob will ride shotgun for you. Good luck with it.
Bob

I am back again....

I am using a Lucas lightswitch to power front fogs and rears on my pick-up. All the wiring is in and basically as follows a live feed from fuse to bottom terminal (7), them have wire from front frogs to 4 and a wire from the rears rears to 8 so basically fronts come on and then front and rears together.

This may not be correct but its how I want to wire them, these fused at the fuse box and the live feed comes from there live only when ignition on. Can someone advise should I add a few 4 pin relays (or one) if so how would I wire them to existing arangement?

Any help welcome, oOver to you Rob!

From the description I assume you are powering the switch from the terminal that normally had green wires on it? This green indicates "from battery and through fuse but only when ignition is live" which would be a good idea for routing the wiggly amps. Only downside is that since the terminal that the green wires come from is after a fuse, you'd be pumping an extra 10 amps through that fuse when it is all foggy outside. That might blow the fuse, losing brake lights, wipers etc but also overload the ign switch and the white wires that go through it.

If I might offer another solution, the brown wires from the battery to the RB106 are nice and thick to cope with lots of wiggly amps so make an ideal path for extra amps.

I'd take a wire from the white terminal to power a relay so it could only be powered whilst the ign is on. This is just to power the relay switchery stuff, not to power the lamps. The lamps I would feed from the brown wire with a fuse shortly after the RB106 so that any short circuit anywhere along there would blow the fuse quickly.

I've got a diagram to send to you but haven't got an email address. Can you give me an address or call me and I can have a chat about the options?

Cheers

Rob
hfh200@hotmail.co.uk
01446 795489

Rob

Russlcv@gmail.com

Forgot to mention running a Mini 4 fuse box so from a separate fuse to what you mention