Re: Need resistor help please (35w x 12v)

This is 2 completely separate circuits I'm speaking about, one for the
left headlight, and one for the right headlight. So, effectively if I
get one working the same setup on the other will work as well (cross
fingers). So, each side will only have 1 resistor. The resistor is a
15ohm 25watt resistor.

When I did my tests last night, the first test which still made my car
beep and cry about the light out was just a single resistor, and that
is it. Here is my best text drawing.

+ ---------------
|
15ohm
|
- ---------------

My 2nd test, in parallel behind the resistor I put the 2 watt
lightbulb, and still got the error from the car. Drawing:

+ ------------------------
| |
15ohm 2watt bulb
| |
- ------------------------

My 3rd test, same as the 2nd test except with a 5 watt bulb. This made
the error go away.

+ ------------------------
| |
15ohm 5watt bulb
| |
- ------------------------


Thing is, in my earlier tests before I had resistors to play with, this
setup also made the error go away:

+ ------------------------
|
5watt bulb
|
- ------------------------

The resistor in parallel doesn't seem to do anything. =o Although, it
gets very hot so it's definitly sucking power.

.

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