Foglights on with high beams
10-07-2010, 12:41 PM
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JK Super Freak
OK, Agreed, the law is "The Law". No matter how stupid. Like marrying our sisters or not being able to run fogs with high beams. I'll just be thankful that the law makers hear in my home town will let me do both at the same time if I so wish. 
But all kidding asside. I would never run my high beams in foggy weather. And I don't have a sister. So what does it matter if I want to use my fogs with my highs. What's the diffrence between that and any other beam pattern with highs. You can be ticketed for not dimming lights to on comming traffic anyway. I'll admit that I am one of those guys that so called "misuses fogs". But it's more the norm in my neck of the woods. And I would bet that the people that don't have them only wish they did. It's not against the law. It improves visibility. And therefore improves safety.
But all kidding asside. I would never run my high beams in foggy weather. And I don't have a sister. So what does it matter if I want to use my fogs with my highs. What's the diffrence between that and any other beam pattern with highs. You can be ticketed for not dimming lights to on comming traffic anyway. I'll admit that I am one of those guys that so called "misuses fogs". But it's more the norm in my neck of the woods. And I would bet that the people that don't have them only wish they did. It's not against the law. It improves visibility. And therefore improves safety.
10-08-2010, 04:44 AM
#22
JK Junkie
In clear conditions, more foreground light is not a good thing, it's a bad thing.
US-DOT headlamps have historically tended to provide relatively low, arguably inadequate levels of light in the foreground and to the sides. Many US DOT headlamps have what seems to be a "black hole" in front of the car, with essentially the entire beam concentrated in a narrow band or ball of light thrown into the distance. With headlamps like these, a decent argument can be made for the use of fog lamps to fill the "black hole", that is, to add-back the missing foreground and lateral-spread light when driving at moderate speeds on dark and/or twisty roads.
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10-08-2010, 07:14 AM
#23
JK Super Freak
With that thought in mind, go for it, I'm sure that is what you wanted to hear.
10-08-2010, 10:57 AM
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JK Junkie
OK Guys ! I concede. 
I'm not trying to just add fuel to the fire. I'm just trying to learn and understand. I've been in the electrical field for many years now. So I do know a thing or two about lighting. Maybe just enough to be dangerous in this case. 
I'll have to do more research on this one.
I'm not trying to just add fuel to the fire. I'm just trying to learn and understand. I've been in the electrical field for many years now. So I do know a thing or two about lighting. Maybe just enough to be dangerous in this case. I'll have to do more research on this one.
10-08-2010, 07:30 PM
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It seems that it would be best to just add a set of driving lights then. I am trying to get as much light way out front and around me when off road wooded areas with drop offs and such. Not concerned with driving down the road with them on with high lights.
10-22-2010, 03:23 PM
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http://home.comcast.net/~kingslea1/Jeep/FogMod.pdf
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01-27-2011, 01:57 AM
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Bad write up... Without all the opinions about legal issues or personal lighting techniques. How can you disable the fog cut off when brights are applied? For an outcome to have brights plus fogs on at the same time using the factory fog switch? Does anyone know how to achieve this?
