Aug
08

Dash light error delete

As you all know, there’ll be error indicators when changing from halogen to xenon due to different loading of the bulb. In my case the error persists on the dash but the xenon can still be powered up but they flickers. To mimick the load of halogen, capacitors were installed so that during LCM test they will drain current (to charge up) fooling the LCM that the bulb is okay. After installing the capacitor, xenon will no longer flicker. Please refer to earlier post for picture and value of capacitor. Unlike resistor that gets hot during operation because it dissipates power in the form of heat, capacitor does not. In a DC environment, capacitor only uses power to charge and once it’s full there’ll be no current flowing through it.

So thats the deal with my low beam warning, no warning for high beam because I’m still using halogen. Warning left is the parking/pilot lamp because they are removed due to no place to put in a quad projector setup. Unlike the low beam which is high powered, the parking lamp bulb is marked as 5W so it is cancelled with resistors. Not to keen to write anymore so on to pictures, leave me question if you have any..
Error in INPA

Putting the resistor in

One side down, another side to go

Jul
05

Quad projector project cost

E46 quad projector project cost breakdown as below

E46 bi-xenon projector set – RM464
FX-R projectors – RM382
HID D2S ballast + bulb – RM151
E46 replica shroud – RM89
Yellow Philips H7 bulbs – RM76
Paints – RM70
Relays etc – RM60
D2S harness – RM27

Jul
04

Xenon output comparison (with halogen)

Before

After

Output comparison

Comparison between 55W halogen with 35W HID, HID is more efficient because most energy is converted to light while halogen radiates a lot of heat

Low beam before (halogen)

Low beam after (HID)

High beam before (2X 55W halogen)

High beam after (bi-xenon shutter)

Done

All in all I’m okay with the result, not very happy with the high beam and I’m blaming the cheap bulb for that. Suspecting that the arc chamber is skewed causing the light to be off center. Will try to get new proper bulbs and keep these as spares. Probably going for 55W ballast next time for crazy output. Hope this would help anybody looking for a guide or help.

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