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    Headlight vs flashlight

    I use TWO headlights...every time I drive at night. Flashlight, I wear a hat most of the time at work and head light + hat doesn't work very well for me. I use wands and pucks with magnets as well as a hand held flashlight.
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    An interesting HID ballast failure mode.

    Lights always go in pairs, also the vendor I trusted for genuine used parts only sells them in pairs. I did open the cover on the ballast and eyeball the inside and I can't see anything amiss but I can only see just a little bit of the innards. It's got some very thick sticky conformal coating...
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    An interesting HID ballast failure mode.

    One of the OEM Denso ballasts in my Toyota (Ballast should be from around 03-05 year range) has had a rather fascinating failure. In what could only be described as the most Toyota way for something to fail it's gone faulty by working 'too good'. Earlier this year I had a passenger side HID...
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    Osram Night Breaker Laser D2S

    Ah ha, I took a closer look at the bad bulb and while I can't get a photo of it there are two white spots on the inner glass 'stem' below the capsule that are where the weird opaque line and area are on the inner side of the outer glass. I'm going to guess it was arcing from the inner to outer...
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    Osram Night Breaker Laser D2S

    Thank you to both of you for a really good explanation. The capsule shape does look a little different on these than standard bulbs, slightly smaller inside and with a little different shape. Otherwise I can't discern a visible difference. On initial lighting they weren't super impressive but...
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    Osram Night Breaker Laser D2S

    Planning to buy a fresh pair of bulbs since one or my old Night Breaker Unlimited decided that this summer pink is in style. Are these new NBL really all that and a bag of chips vs standard 85122 or 66240? What's all this marketing speak "200% brighter" and "250M further", I'm wondering how they...
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    2000 Mercury Grand Marquis headlight options

    Another option would be to have a body shop sand them down to good bare plastic then finish sand them with 2000 grit, apply some plastic adhesion promoter, then clear with some 2K with flex additive . It won't be as hard as the original but long term that can be a somewhat good thing, smaller...
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    New light bar claims its legal, legit?

    Well the 2nd thing I noticed after swapping to the OEM HID housings was that the high beam didn't have the same apparent intensity down the road. Looking at the lights side by side the high beam bowl was diminished in size above the bulb to make room for the bigger low beam projector unit. I'm...
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    New light bar claims its legal, legit?

    I agree, I'll check some charts and diagrams and what not. Might just have to try pissing into the wind to see how bad it blows back in my face. I can't get any more light out of my high beams, 9011 and a relay harness with minimal voltage drop.
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    New light bar claims its legal, legit?

    Even the Hella pencil beam or a pair of Rigid Hyperspot? I thought their beams may be vertically tight enough to hit the road out near or past the low beam cutoff and augment the high beams. I guess I need some isolux charts to see where light starts falling and know the mounting height used and...
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    New light bar claims its legal, legit?

    Something a software issue and the person working on it being out sick with the flu, I don't want to copy/paste what may be assumed a private conversation publicly. Says they should be up next week sometime.
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    New light bar claims its legal, legit?

    I'm sure those JW's are fantastic but that size would be difficult to fit. I'm working with a 'mouth' in the front bumper as the only mounting area. There's really no where else unless I'm building a rally pod off the front of the car and I am not building a rally pod off the front of the car...
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    New light bar claims its legal, legit?

    Bwahahaha that's a pretty funny isolux diagram. I just found the new Hella LED light bars though, a little pricier but I might be able to get away with a single bar instead of two. Looks interesting, why such an output hit on the pencil and driving beams though? I'm sure these are 100% illegal...
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    New light bar claims its legal, legit?

    I asked and he said they're working on getting the isolux diagram and some better distance measurements, explained the delay is because the office came down the the flu that's going on around (and boy is it going around!). I'll hold my judgments on it till I have all the facts, I'll borrow a...
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    New light bar claims its legal, legit?

    I'll ask for lux at 100m and one of those pretty light distribution things with the cool gradient colors. Just by seeing the name JW Speaker I can tell you the price makes me JW Squeaker!
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