[s-cars] HID lights group buy - $185/set delivered

[Bruce Mendel]

Yeah, he's the master of lighting, and I buy tons of things from him. He's a
great guy, a real lighting zealot. But sometimes zealots are blind (no pun
intended) to reality, and rely too much on theory.

Scientifically, he's correct. But I've done a ton of  A/B comparisons with
one HID installed, and one halogen, and I am on a dark road at a stop.
Second car is there to drive towards my car looking for glare.

Towel over one light, then the other. Drive short distance with one light
connected, then the other. Walk 100 yards from the car and look back at
driver's height for glare. Have other car come towards my car looking for
glare. Etc. etc.

The HID's are so clearly superior in amount of light, with all else like
dispersion, glare, and beam pattern being essentially the same that I throw
science out the window and go with more usable light on the road.

B


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lee Levitt" <lee at wheelman.com>
To: "'Bruce M.'" <brucem105 at Comcast.net>; "'RM'" <waves at epix.net>;
<s-car-list at audifans.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 3:54 PM
Subject: RE: [s-cars] HID lights group buy - $185/set delivered


> Bruce writes:
>
> >
> > With these super cheap HID's, they do in fact stay very close
> > to OEM beam pattern. They also throw about a million more
> > times light on the road (by my scientific calculations).
>
> Read Stern's treatise against HID fog lamps. Then you'll know why more
light
> isn't necessarily better.
>
> Lee
>
>
>