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Anyone here any good with Auto-Electrics?

Hi All, I have a 1993 Vauxhall Cavalier GLS 2.0i.
The electrics have gone on the blink. I came out one morning and ALL the elecrics were dead.
I re-charged the battery, but when I put it back on the ignition light would come on without me putting the key in.
When I do turn the key, the other lights come on, but the battery light goes out.
It starts and runs, but I'm afraid to drive it anywhere incase I get stranded.
When I'm not using it, I have to take one of the battery terminals off to stop the battery discharge.

What you had was a dead battery. When you turn the key, the battery light should go out.
This is what you need to do. Im assuming the vauxhall cavalier 2.0 has the same 2.0 in the chevrolet cavalier. Pop the hood, and look for a little black box that says "diagnostics". Open it up, and there are going to be a series of holes. take a paperclip, and stick one end in "ECU" and the other end in "GND". Then get in your car and turn the key to "ACC" . DONT START IT, just turn it to ACC. THen if you have any problems, your Check Engine Light will flash. Count the number of flashes.
Then go here if they flash, and it will tell you what you need.

http://www.auto-diagnostic-codes.com/Petrol-Engine/European/Vauxhall-Opel-Fuel-Injection.html

**EDIT**
And to the poster that said take it to a mechanic. The entire point of this person asking the question was so they didnt have to take it to a mechanic. If 5 people give the same answer, your going to be wasting money taking it to a mechanic, because 99.99% of the time, the mechanic is gonna tell you the same thing!

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Types of Lamps in Lighting World

Electric-discharge lamps depend on the ionization and the resulting electric discharge in vapors or gases at low pressures if an electric current is passed through them. Representative examples of these types of devices are the mercury-vapor arc lamp, which gives an intense blue-green light and is used for photographic and roadway illumination, and the neon lamp, which is employed for decorative sign and display lighting. In newer electric-discharge lamps, other metals are added to mercury and phosphor on the enclosing bulbs to improve color and efficacy. Glasslike, translucent ceramic tubes have led to high-pressure sodium vapor lamps of unprecedented lighting power.

The fluorescent lamp is another type of electric-discharge device used for general-purpose illumination. It is a low-pressure mercury vapor lamp contained in a glass tube, which is coated on the inside with a fluorescent material known as phosphor. The radiation in the arc of the vapor lamp causes the phosphor to become fluorescent. Much of the radiation from the arc is invisible ultraviolet light, but this radiation is changed to visible light if it excites the phosphor. Fluorescent lamps have several important advantages. By choosing the proper type of phosphor, the light from such lamps can be made to approximate the quality of daylight. In addition, the efficiency of the fluorescent lamp is high. A fluorescent tube taking 40 watts of energy produces as much light as a 150-watt incandescent bulb. Because of this illuminating power, fluorescent lamps produce less heat than incandescent bulbs for comparable light production.

One advance in the field of electric lighting is the use of electroluminescence, known commonly as panel lighting. In panel lighting, particles of phosphor are suspended in a thin layer of nonconducting material such as plastic. This layer is sandwiched between two plate conductors, one of which is a translucent substance, such as glass, coated on the inside with a thin film of tin oxide. With the two conductors acting as electrodes, an alternating current is passed through the phosphor, causing it to luminesce. Luminescent panels may serve a variety of purposes—for example, to illuminate clock and radio dials, to outline the risers in staircases, and to provide luminous walls. The use of panel lighting is restricted, however, because the current requirements for large installations are excessive.

A number of different kinds of electric lamps have been developed for such special purposes as photography and floodlighting. These bulbs are generally shaped to act as reflectors when coated with an aluminum mirror. One such lamp is the photoflood bulb, an incandescent lamp that is operated at a temperature higher than normal to obtain greater light output. The life of these bulbs is limited to 2 or 3 hours, as opposed to that of the ordinary incandescent bulb, which lasts from 750 to 1,000 hours. Photoflash bulbs used for high-speed photography produce a single high-intensity flash of light, lasting a few hundredths of a second, by the ignition of a charge of crumpled aluminum foil or fine aluminum wire inside an oxygen-filled glass bulb. The foil is ignited by the heat of a small filament in the bulb. Increasingly popular among photographers is the high-speed gas-discharge stroboscopic lamp known as an electronic flash.

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