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Re: lights constantly burning out S70 99

posted by  someone claiming to be Vladimir on  Fri Nov 30 07:49 CST 2001 [RELATED]

David, a resistor does not absorb spikes, it lowers the voltage. If that piece of harness is indeed a resistor, then the effect is simply that of slightly lower voltage applied to your bulbs. If the spike comes, you will still get it, but it will be slightly lower just like the constant voltage is slsightly lower on the bulb. Resistors do not absorb spikes, they create a voltage drop across them. If that piece of harness is a resistor and a capacitor (an RC pair), then there may be a low-pass fiter effect of sorts. This would let lower frequencies (DC is a frequency of 0) through while filtering high frequencies (spikes generally consist of high frequency componenets). I am not at all sure what exactly is in that little gadget they installed, but maybe someone else here does.

Good luck.





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