65W H1 Xenon High Performance bulbs??

[Roge]

ARB (The 4X4 After Market guys) sell IPF 65W H1 Xenon High Performance bulbs.

The spec is

-H1 12V 65W
-Optical output equivelance 150W
-Uses an exotic gas mix at high pressure
-High Output with low amp draw
-Suitable for use in factory head lamps with resinreflector lenses
-Compatible with most factory wiring looms.

There is no requirement for ballast resistors or power supplies.

Having just bought a Suzuki DRZ400E whith its bog standard head lamp and 55W bulb which lights up the world for miles in front with a good spread, it really does illustrate just how bad the 1150 GSA with its 4 lamps really are.

My question is the wiring and lamp reflectors on the GSA up to the bulbs above, in the bush I really would like not to have to rely on spots/fogs?

 

[Flipfly]

ARB (The 4X4 After Market guys) sell IPF 65W H1 Xenon High Performance bulbs.

The spec is

-H1 12V 65W
-Optical output equivelance 150W
-Uses an exotic gas mix at high pressure
-High Output with low amp draw
-Suitable for use in factory head lamps with resinreflector lenses
-Compatible with most factory wiring looms.

There is no requirement for ballast resistors or power supplies.

Having just bought a Suzuki DRZ400E whith its bog standard head lamp and 55W bulb which lights up the world for miles in front with a good spread, it really does illustrate just how bad the 1150 GSA with its 4 lamps really are.

My question is the wiring and lamp reflectors on the GSA up to the bulbs above, in the bush I really would like not to have to rely on spots/fogs?

Buy a 50w HID kit and your world will change for the better. Even the 35w is mighty powerful. Posh bulbs never make as much of a difference as HID and they can cost a similar price.
Try Colbatch on here, don't know if he'll deliver to your neck of the woods though. If not try ebay.

 

[pomm001]

Buy a 50w HID kit and your world will change for the better. Even the 35w is mighty powerful. Posh bulbs never make as much of a difference as HID and they can cost a similar price.
Try Colbatch on here, don't know if he'll deliver to your neck of the woods though. If not try ebay.

second that
putting 35 watt HIDS to my GS was the best meoney i ever spent on it
if theses 'something for nothing' bulbs work so well why dont the OE's use them ?

HID

 

[Cole]

If they dont have ballasts, then they arent Xenon bulbs. A lot of marketing propaganda calls high performance filament bulbs "Xenon" bulbs, cause they contain up to 5% Xenon gas in the "exotic mix". Reality is they cant have any more Xenon in there or it would start to spark and arc and go nuts.

The reality is filament bulbs can only give you at best about 30 lumens per watt. HIDs (which have Xenon in there cause they are actually designed to arc and spark) give you 90-110 lumens per watt. That doesnt just go for headlamps, but any sort of lamp. Any halogen filament lamp (and no matter how much they call them Xenon lamps they are still halogen filament lamps with a trace amount of Xenon in there for the sole purpose of calling them "Xenon" lamps) are a quarter as efficient as HIDs.

To give you an idea ...

Standard 55 watt H7 halogen puts out 1400 lumens
A High performance 55w H7 Halogen will give you 1650 lumens
A jazzed up 65 watt one as you have described might get you up to 1950 lumens, if its a PIAA or Philips or Osram manufacture and will have a short life expectancy.
A 35 watt HID puts out 3200 lumens and a 50 watt HID 4600.

A lumen in the standard measure of light output as visible to the human eye.

The claim of 150% more light from a 65 watt filament bulb is completely not credible unfortunately. 150% increase would give you 3500 lumens, and I will guarantee those bulbs dont give you 3500 lumens. 1750 - 1800 lumens would be a safer bet

 

[Roge]

Thanks for the above info I am still looking at going down the HID route, but for the time being and Roo dodging I have fiited a pair of the IPF lights above.

First reaction was not very good but the way the beam pattern changed meant I have had to re-align the headlights and the result is very good indeed the spread and penetration is better the dip beam pattern has moved futher out meaning the over tight beam of the main is not as critical, so all in all the lights are now pretty good.

I have no doubt that HID would be better but that is down the line somewhat.