6volt sealed beam

They never made 6 volt sealed beams to my knowledge steve the grease

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "R L Driver" saying something like:

Aye. Not just rare, non-existent, iwt.

============== They might have been used in that tiny 60s French car whose name eludes me, which had 6 volt equipment.

Cic.

============ After some thought - the Renault Dauphine - I think.

Cic.

Oh thats good to know. Have a look here!

Also some old motorcycles had them iirc.

Weren't some American cars 6v. until surprisingly late on? Probably the automobile equivalent of 110v. houses.

Ron Robinson

Don't think sealed beams made it to the US - they were rather a Lucas speciality.

Volkswagen used them in US specification cars. The last year for 6v sealed beams was 1966. The UK market VW's got more conventional units with removable bulbs until 1967 :-)

Dave Plowman (News) ( snipped-for-privacy@davenoise.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Quite the opposite - they were a legal REQUIREMENT in the US until the mid- late 80s. You weren't allowed anything else. Round or square only. Sheer madness.

It's why all those 80s US-spec Mercs had godawful square lights in "padding" surrounds.

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Rob saying something like:

Yanks, obviously. Kind of explains why they're unheard of this side of the pond.

Thanks for the site just what I was looking for. My Morris 8 had 1 as a headlight and I bought a old us Fog light with a 6 volt sealed beam in it but the the bulb was broken.

Hans

Sealed beams don't have bulbs - they are a bulb in themselves.

So when you said, "Aye. Not just rare, non-existent, iwt," you were wrong? EMWTK and all that. Just trying to clear things up.

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Dan Drake saying something like:

Meaning over here, not in some redneck workshop in Arkansas.

The kind of archaic technology employed by our Merkin backwoods cousins is of no particular interest to me, save that of curiousity.

Anyway. Just think of this... the people of the same country that put men on the moon were driving around in cars with sealed-beam headlamps (by law!), and living in wooden houses that were wired with aluminium cables(lovely fire hazard).

My motorcycle still has a 6volt system, albeit not a sealed beam unit. I've also tried accessing the above site without success, it is down?.

Steve.

Stephen Hull (Steve@127.0.0.1) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Works fine from here.

OK, I understand now. I didn't realise that you were using *that* definition of the term "non-existent."

WW2 Jeeps had 6 volt sealed beams