I've been going through all the mess of wiring over the past several=20
months and thought I got it all in place now, but I would/should not be=20
surprised.  Everything else (that is connected at least) works fine. =20
I'll continue to investigate these though.

Cheers,
-Neil


On 2/17/2015 1:19 AM, Richard R. Pope wrote:
> Neil,
>       You have a bad ground and or grounds in various places. This is a
> common problem.
> Thanks,
> rich!
>
> On 2/16/2015 11:58 PM, Neil wrote:
>> Recently got and old car roadworthy and it has HID headlights in it.
>> The bulbs have an interesting behaviour in that when first turned on,
>> they emit a quick flash of light, then instantly dim, and slowly
>> brighten back up to operating brightness.  What's not good is that every
>> so often, that initial flash causes enough of a power surge to knock out
>> the ECU (
>> http://www.wmsracing.com/wmsweb/SDS-WMS-SDS-Digital-Injection-System.htm=
l ).
>> Or perhaps it's knocking out the aftermarket ignition system (
>> http://www.jegs.com/i/MSD/121/62152/10002/-1 ), as after the surge, the
>> ECU shows "RPM error".  I'm planning on adding some type of filter to
>> the ECU or ignition module power lines (no prob with that), but
>> wondering why I shouldn't try to reduce the surge instead.
>>
>> How would I go about doing this?  The HID lights have the bulbs, a relay
>> module and a couple ballasts.  Would there be a simple way to reduce the
>> surge for bulbs like this?  Or would doing so impede the bulbs operation=
?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -Neil
>>
>>

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