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Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 12:38 am 
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Bit of a noob question, but how hard are these to install?

 

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Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 1:00 am 
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Bit of a noob question, but how hard are these to install?

Quite simple,
Mostly Plug and play..If you can change a light bulb you can change these,
Bascially Put the bulb in the car (like you normally would with your headlights), mount the ballast somewhere near the head light, connect the Light bulb to the ballast, then the ballast to your exsiting lighting switch, then connect the power and off ya go..
This is just off the top of my head, but they come with instructions
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Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 12:08 pm 
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Just want to clear something up, whats the visibility like with these things at night?

 

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Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 3:49 pm 
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Just want to clear something up, whats the visibility like with these things at night?

If you have an xr ed-el or nc-na fairlane (due to projector light) it will be alot more benificial than standard lights.
In saying this, HID's will be alot brighter than your standard Halogen.
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Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 3:58 pm 
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Hybrid34 wrote:
SpeedyED wrote:
Just want to clear something up, whats the visibility like with these things at night?

If you have an xr ed-el or nc-na fairlane (due to projector light) it will be alot more benificial than standard lights.
In saying this, HID's will be alot brighter than your standard Halogen.
Cheers
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Yeah but I got myself some of those xenon lights (have no Idea what they are) and they gave out a blue light, but the visibility at night was f**k, and I like my visibility at night.

So will it improve it or will it just be like the xenon globes?

 

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Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 4:27 pm 
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SpeedyED wrote:
Hybrid34 wrote:
SpeedyED wrote:
Just want to clear something up, whats the visibility like with these things at night?

If you have an xr ed-el or nc-na fairlane (due to projector light) it will be alot more benificial than standard lights.
In saying this, HID's will be alot brighter than your standard Halogen.
Cheers
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Yeah but I got myself some of those xenon lights (have no Idea what they are) and they gave out a blue light, but the visibility at night was f**k, and I like my visibility at night.

So will it improve it or will it just be like the xenon globes?

The Xenon lights you are talking about are a Halogen globe either 55watt or 100watt usually.
Unfortunatly with these sorts of globes the more 'blue color' you go, the less visibility you have (which you will find with the 55watt) when you go up to 100watt you wil get less blue but better visibility.
HIDs are a High intensity globe which will give you better visibility.
Heres an example;
h1 100watt globe test for range produced 600m Visibility Range distance
HID 35watt globe test for range produced 1.2km Visibility Range Distance.
So to answer your question yes, If change your halogens to HID's your visibility will improve, if you have Projector lights (ED-El) xr it will be better than your standard headlight.
Hope this clears things up
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Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 4:34 pm 
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Hybrid34 wrote:
SpeedyED wrote:
Hybrid34 wrote:
SpeedyED wrote:
Just want to clear something up, whats the visibility like with these things at night?

If you have an xr ed-el or nc-na fairlane (due to projector light) it will be alot more benificial than standard lights.
In saying this, HID's will be alot brighter than your standard Halogen.
Cheers
- Ash

Yeah but I got myself some of those xenon lights (have no Idea what they are) and they gave out a blue light, but the visibility at night was f**k, and I like my visibility at night.

So will it improve it or will it just be like the xenon globes?

The Xenon lights you are talking about are a Halogen globe either 55watt or 100watt usually.
Unfortunatly with these sorts of globes the more 'blue color' you go, the less visibility you have (which you will find with the 55watt) when you go up to 100watt you wil get less blue but better visibility.
HIDs are a High intensity globe which will give you better visibility.
Heres an example;
h1 100watt globe test for range produced 600km Visibility Range distance
HID 35watt globe test for range produced 1.2km Visibility Range Distance.
So to answer your question yes, If change your halogens to HID's your visibility will improve, if you have Projector lights (ED-El) xr it will be better than your standard headlight.
Hope this clears things up
Cheers
- Ash

aaaah, Ash are you sure the h1 100watt globe test can go up to 600km's? or is it 600m? because that to me sounds more like how much visibility I had.

 

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Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 4:40 pm 
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SpeedyED wrote:
Hybrid34 wrote:
SpeedyED wrote:
Hybrid34 wrote:
SpeedyED wrote:
Just want to clear something up, whats the visibility like with these things at night?

If you have an xr ed-el or nc-na fairlane (due to projector light) it will be alot more benificial than standard lights.
In saying this, HID's will be alot brighter than your standard Halogen.
Cheers
- Ash

Yeah but I got myself some of those xenon lights (have no Idea what they are) and they gave out a blue light, but the visibility at night was f**k, and I like my visibility at night.

So will it improve it or will it just be like the xenon globes?

The Xenon lights you are talking about are a Halogen globe either 55watt or 100watt usually.
Unfortunatly with these sorts of globes the more 'blue color' you go, the less visibility you have (which you will find with the 55watt) when you go up to 100watt you wil get less blue but better visibility.
HIDs are a High intensity globe which will give you better visibility.
Heres an example;
h1 100watt globe test for range produced 600km Visibility Range distance
HID 35watt globe test for range produced 1.2km Visibility Range Distance.
So to answer your question yes, If change your halogens to HID's your visibility will improve, if you have Projector lights (ED-El) xr it will be better than your standard headlight.
Hope this clears things up
Cheers
- Ash

aaaah, Ash are you sure the h1 100watt globe test can go up to 600km's? or is it 600m? because that to me sounds more like how much visibility I had.



Sorry mate, its been a long day, yes 600m
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Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 4:44 pm 
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Thats fair enough, I'm interested, but we'll see how many more people we get interested in this before I say yeah definantly, I have a few financial things that I want sorted first.

 

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Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 4:46 pm 
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SpeedyED wrote:
Thats fair enough, I'm interested, but we'll see how many more people we get interested in this before I say yeah definantly, I have a few financial things that I want sorted first.

No worries,
I'll keep this thread updated,
If you have anymore questions feel free to ask
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Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 6:04 pm 
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If this is still going when tax cheque comes back ,I'm in :twisted:

 

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Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 8:12 pm 
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If this is still going when tax cheque comes back ,I'm in :twisted:

No worries mate, let me know if your in when you get it.
Things should start kickin in a week
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Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 5:41 am 
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Hey Ash

Im interested as well in a pair of the 6000

but can anyone help me with what bulb goes in an EL XR?
never had to change my bulbs since i bought the car :)

 

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Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 1:20 pm 
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Hey Ash

Im interested as well in a pair of the 6000

but can anyone help me with what bulb goes in an EL XR?
never had to change my bulbs since i bought the car :)

Im not 100% sure I think they are H1, Ill have to double check for you.
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Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 2:32 pm 
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Hi,
could be intersted but, newbie question....is drilling holes required to mount the ballasts & if so wheres the best place?

 

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