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Old 12-08-2005, 01:49 AM
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The more I think about these units, the more ideas I come up with.

Take this eBay special, and put the capsules into a PIAA 525, which is a dual beam H4 based lamp. Wire them up to give you the ability to turn on the high and low beams of the capsules (and their respective ballasts and ignitors) separately. If you did that, combined with ANY of the HID setups, you'll have:

HID Headlamps - 6000 lumens total
PIAA 525 HID mod low beams - 5000 lumens total
PIAA 525 HID mod high beams - 5000 lumens total.

That combination will then crank out 16000 lumens, in a controllable low beam/high beam/low and high beam auxilary light, with either low only HID reflectors or low/high projectors.

That amount of lighting is equal to 10 PIAA 520's putting out a mere 1500 lumens each (roughly).

All with only two auxiliary lights in the front. Nice, huh? And a total draw of about 17.5 amps. (35 watts per ballast x 6 ballasts = 210 watts of draw. Divide by 12. 17.5 amps is the draw). Compare that to 45.8 amps for the 10 PIAA 520's [(55w x 10)/12].

-Steve
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