Xenon headlights

[Robert Myers]

Those lamps are just for the boy racers to have a nice "cool" look. They 
will do virtually nothing to assist you to see more road. They are simply 
ordinary halogen lights with some xenon inside the bulb and a blue coating 
on the bulb.

True xenon lights function much like a neon light and produce light by 
electron discharge through a xenon plasma. They are ***MUCH*** brighter.

At 01:02 AM 9/15/00, you wrote:

>There is another option...
>
>Sylvania sells a "Cool Blue" lamp that appears to be Xenon/Halogen mix.  I
>just purchased one for my car (not going to replace the other until the
>headlamp gets fixed from my "mishap")...
>
>In the side by side comparison, it does appear brighter, however they are the
>same wattage rating, so I don't see how it is possible.  What I think is
>happening is that there is a broader range of wavelengths in the blue end of
>the spectrum that makes the light more white...
>
>Arden
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