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GEAR: - Motorcycle Lights; PIWYR NEWS: - The ability of HID lighting to throw light far down the road and to the sides is unmatchable
Topic Started: Tuesday, 4. August 2009, 07:31 (278 Views)
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Motorcycle Lights
By Najeeb Ullah Khan
The world is of glamour and fashion. This is true for both machines and human beings. Motorcycle HID Lights are a type of stylish lighting that motorcycle riders prefer because they add style and glamour to the attire and look of a motorcycle. The HID lighting systems has become increasingly in style among the bike Riders circle within the last few years and rightly so. The ability of HID lighting to throw light far down the road and to the sides is unmatchable by any modern halogen lamp system. HID technology has significantly advanced in the past few years and has helped reduce its price significantly.

Riders also choose to do this type of enhancement to improve the motorcycle's visibility to other drivers. The HID lights uses an arc of light similar to high intensity stadium lighting. But unlike stadium lights, this state of the art lighting system uses extremely high voltage (18-25 thousand volts) to start the arc, so that no warm up time is required. It produces a light equal to 4100 degree Kelvin compared to 2800 degree Kelvin produced by a typical halogen filament lamp. The outcome is a daylight white bluish light that produces more than thrice the amount of lumens as compared to halogen light, while consuming only about 50 watts of power (35-watts for the bulb, 15-watts for the ballast). Once the light is up to full intensity (about 1-1.5 seconds), the regulator then provides a stable 90 volts to maintain the arc.

This new system of HID lights does not use a filament like halogen bulb, but creates light by zapping an arc between two electrodes. This arc excites xenon gases, igniting metallic salts. The creation of this reaction is intense white light. HID has power consumption of about 3.5 amps continuous draw compared to approximately 10 amps drawn from a standard halogen light bulb? HID bulb life is an average of 3000 hours compared to the halogen's 750 hour life, and is not affected by vibrations or rough road conditions. There are two factors that are particularly important to proper HID usage: focal point, and aiming. By "focal point", we say the exact horizontal/vertical positioning of the bulb filament as it houses in the reflector cover.

It is essential that the HID light's "filament" where the arcing occurs should be in the same exact position that the factory light's filament is placed. Failure to attain this proper focal point results in a significant decrease in light output performance. But to attain proper focal point, or otherwise, the base of the HID bulb has been modified to reproduce the base of the stock motorcycle lights. The HID lighting is extremely powerful. Properly aiming the headlights takes on a whole new meaning when you're thinking about HID lighting.

It is extremely important that your headlights are aimed perfectly. This cannot be emphasized strongly enough. When driving on a two-lane country road, improperly aimed HID headlights can be very dangerous to the oncoming traffic. Experience has shown that in the case of HID lighting, you can slightly lower the aim of the headlamps from default settings and still take in excessive improvements over halogen systems, while at the same time eliminating possible troubles to oncoming traffic.
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Experience has shown that in the case of HID lighting, you can slightly lower the aim of the headlamps from default settings and still take in excessive improvements over halogen systems, while at the same time eliminating possible troubles to oncoming traffic.


wish they would take note of this, I find a lot of HID setups are really annoying
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Experience has shown that in the case of HID lighting, you can slightly lower the aim of the headlamps from default settings and still take in excessive improvements over halogen systems, while at the same time eliminating possible troubles to oncoming traffic.


wish they would take note of this, I find a lot of HID setups are really annoying
as do I !!

love the look and extra light BUTT..... not good to be blinded !
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