50W Headlights

jasonf · Jan 26, 2002

Take 50W and divide that by the supply voltage and you get the Amps consumed. That gives us around 4.1 amps times 2 lights gives 8.2 amps total, circuit is controlled by a 10 amp fuse, so this will NOT be a problem...

Bayrat · Jan 26, 2002

Oh boy /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif, I spliced a work light in line with the tail lamps for lack of any other empty circuit in the back. I hope this does not overload the fuse. Is the tail lamp and head lamp circuit the same /w3tcompact/icons/hmm.gif? It seems on all of these brands that the wiring is barely adequate /w3tcompact/icons/sad.gif, my Allis Chalmers built in '62 would put them to shame. I can imagine the 50w would be quite an improvement, almost double the 23w that is in mine, but I never gave the circuit overload question a thought. Seems changing bulbs or adding lights to cars, trucks, boats over the years has not been problematic, American built products always had plenty of leeway built into the circuitry.

Bayrat · Jan 26, 2002

John,

How did you insert the pics into your post to have them show up in the text box?

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jasonf · Jan 27, 2002

OK, you have a 2910 right ? Stand behind the tractor, look at the right rear light? Just to the left of it you will see a round black plug that is to be removed when you want to install the optional Kubota worklight. Anyway just behind that piece of sheet metal, directly under this plug are some insulated bullet connectors that connect the right rear light to the wiring. Get your head in there and you will see an insulated connector taped back onto the wiring harness. It does not have anything connected to it, that is a dedicated 20 Amp circuit just for the optional worklight. Connect your worklight/worklights there. When you look at the fuse box in the engine bay you will see the fuse just for this purpose already installed and ready for service.

hope this helps......

Bayrat · Jan 27, 2002

I'll take a look today Jason. I guess I should have looked at the schematics in the owners manual, I wanted the light to come on with the headlights so that is where I wired it. Didn't even think it would be only a ten amp fuse. I mounted my light in one of those knock outs as well, figured that is what they were for.

Bayrat · Jan 27, 2002

I see, I didn't realize that could be done in the text area. You are targeting web sites to do it /w3tcompact/icons/clever.gif and not pastying it yourself from clipboard or the like.

GlueGuy · Jan 27, 2002

Any idea if the 50 watts will work on a B7500?


I think not. For one, I pulled out one of the bulbs on Lucy! last night, and it's labeled "12v 15w". That, and the wires look like 18 awg or so. Based on that, the biggest lamp that I would hazard as a replacement would be 30w, and that might be questionable. OTOH, you could swap the wires and fuse, and go for the 50's.

All that said, it seems that any improvement to the stock headlights would be marginal simply because they're (usually) behind the FEL. Darn thing just doesn't pass enough light....

A better all-around solution (it would seem) is to mount auxilary lights up on the ROPS. Better angle to the work.

jasonf · Jan 27, 2002

John:
I get how you point to the jpg image in a post but how do you get the image into the tractorbynet system so that you can then point to it in your post? I dont have a website to store my picture in, so how are you doing it ?

Thanks