[s-cars] 9011/9012 Update - The good news

[Mark Strangways]

Well since I am in Toronto. I sense that I may in fact be the first guinea
pig to cook my reflectors.
Send support money  :-)
I do like 9005 in the low beams slots. I think anything bigger might spell
trouble.
But HIGH breams... I am game for anything there.

Mark S
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Forgie" <forgied at ae.ca>
To: <s-car-list at audifans.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 5:54 PM
Subject: Re: [s-cars] 9011/9012 Update - The good news


S-gruppees:  Through the assistance of lister Tim Dahm, I contacted Daniel
Stern of Danielsternlight.com at

416-766-2327  (Toronto) or

www.danielsternlighting.com  or

tech at candlepower.ca

Daniel suggested that the whole 9011/9012 concept was brilliant (bad pun)
but that GE's execution in the "architecture" of the bulb (with the support
wire, etc) was rather fragile leading to many bulb failures (this could
explain why GE got out of the business).  Daniel says that Toshiba took up
the torch (another bad pun) and created a better designed bulb with the same
output specs.

His has 9011/9012 bulbs.  He does not recommend trying to put the 2500 lumen
(at 13.2 V)  9011 bulbs into the low (9006) beam lamp holders but the 1875
lumen (at 13.2 V) 9012 bulbs will fit into the 9006 holders with very little
modification.

The price is US$38.95 per bulb.

Hope this helps.

Dave F.


didn't
check with Stern Lighting on the low beams since I already had them.
Also found the 9011 high beams
at http://www.candlepowerinc.com/?url=2  for $46.86 each.

I can't comment on future availability.

Tim



Dave Forgie wrote:

>S-gruppees:  I have contacted GE Lighting in both Canada and the US
>regarding the 9011/9012 bulbs.  They were never imported into Canada.
> They had a private universal product code (UPC) (John Deere?) and are
>delisted, no longer made or stocked by GE (they "fire saled" the last stock
> in August of 2003).  The GE computer does not list any substitutes or
>replacements.  John Deere may have switched suppliers or dropped the
> whole thing.
>
>
>I have put one inquiry into our local John Deere distributor but seeing how
>its only a lawn and garden tractor store (not the twelve-tired four wheel
>drive articulated tractors of the Prairies and American Midwest), I have no
> confidence of a good answer.   Maybe somebody in farm country USA can
> get better info from their local John Deere distributor.
>
>Another case of unobtainium.  Darn.
>
>Dave F.
>
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