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Looks like it's deer season.
One of the mods I have done to avoid running over ciders at night is upgrade or install additional 100w high beams on our 2 cars.

I never posted these mods on here. But I can see how not running over animals can be very economical.

There are 2 ways to do this mod.
1, replace a 55w bulb with a 100wide bulb of the same type and up grade the wiring to handle the additional power.
2, add more lights.
3, do both.

In my wife's hyundai i did the type 1 install. These cars use H1 bulbs for high beams. And there are 12v 100w upgrade bulbs available for H1.
To up grade the lights all I did was install the 100w bulbs and that was done.
Then I had to upgrade the wiring. The factory wiring was some metric size between 18 and 20 gauge. Perfect for the 4 to 5 amp load the stock H1 bulbs draw. No way the stock electrical would support double power bulbs.
So I took the old high beam circuit and used it to slave a 30 amp relay. Power came straight off the battery, via 12 gauge wire, over current protection provided by a 25 amp inline blade fuse.
I ran 12 gauge to the drivers side light, then branched off 14 gauge to go around the back of the engine compartment. Grounded the bulbs with 14 gauge near the head light.

On the firebird it uses sealed low/high beam pop up lights. So I couldn't swap out the high beam bulb.
I did replace the stock lights with LEDs.
This car got the type 2 install, removed the blinker housings and stuck some small after market 12v 100w lights for a tractor trailer. I used the existing high beam circuit to power a 30 amp relay, 25 amp fuse coming off the alternator this time. Then wired the lights pretty much the same as on the hyundai.
I'm going to put blinkers back on there soon.
With the double high beams on this car I was able to clearly see a tabby cat run across the road over 200 meters ahead of me last night.
The high beam power requirement is around 26 amps.

On the suburban I built a new all stainless steel bumper and included a spot to mount a 100w LED light bar.
Which is probably equal to around 1,000w of incandescent light.
Then I will likely stick 1 or 2 more 100w lights on top of the cab later on.

You might want to think about it.