6 volt headlights on a H

Dave42H · Sep 3, 2008

I'm trying to get my H's headlights to work.
The I have a 8volt battery in it and it won't light the headlights even if I dirctly connect the seald beam to the battery. I check the lights themselve and there are OK. So a 8volt battery won't run a 6volt headlight?

onefarmer · Sep 3, 2008

There are three possibilities.
Bad batt
Bad light
Bad connection

An 8V batt will light a 6V light and maybe burn it out quite fast.

Anonymous-0 · Sep 3, 2008

An 8v batt will light a 6v light. A bit brighter than a 6v batt, but not too much.
First off, you need to check the battery to ensure it has a charge on it. Do this with a voltmeter (multimeter). Secondly set the multimeter to the resistance scale and check the light, it should read practically no resistance if it's good, high resistance or "open" means it's no good. You said you had checked the lights though and that they were good. How did you do this? Lastly, you can always take the batt to the auto parts store and have them check it.

Wayne from MN · Sep 3, 2008

Check for voltage at the light, if there is voltage there, the ground path may be faulty.

M Lake · Sep 3, 2008

Poor contact with the bulb to housing or housing inner ot outer painted shell. There is a brass tab on some for the ground side, clean them up!

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