{"id":97,"date":"2011-07-04T14:06:23","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T06:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aidilj.com\/?p=97"},"modified":"2017-07-29T11:24:52","modified_gmt":"2017-07-29T03:24:52","slug":"xenon-output-comparison-with-halogen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidilj.com\/worklog\/2011\/07\/xenon-output-comparison-with-halogen\/","title":{"rendered":"Xenon output comparison (with halogen)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/aidilj.com\/pictures\/projector\/IMG_3388.jpg\" title=\"E46 reflector headlights\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/aidilj.com\/pictures\/projector\/IMG_3509.jpg\" title=\"E46 quad projector headlights\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Output comparison<\/p>\n<p>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<\/p>\n<p>Low beam before (halogen)<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/aidilj.com\/pictures\/projector\/output\/IMG_3397.jpg\" title=\"halogen low beam\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Low beam after (HID)<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/aidilj.com\/pictures\/projector\/output\/IMG_3530.jpg\" title=\"HID low beam\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>High beam before (2X 55W halogen)<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/aidilj.com\/pictures\/projector\/output\/IMG_3406.jpg\" title=\"halogen high beam\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>High beam after (bi-xenon shutter)<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/aidilj.com\/pictures\/projector\/output\/IMG_3535.jpg\" title=\"HID high beam\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Done<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/aidilj.com\/pictures\/projector\/3456e1f7.jpg\" title=\"E46 with quad projector\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>All in all I&#8217;m okay with the result, not very happy with the high beam and I&#8217;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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;m okay with <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/aidilj.com\/worklog\/2011\/07\/xenon-output-comparison-with-halogen\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-lighting","category-bmw","category-quad-projector"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidilj.com\/worklog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidilj.com\/worklog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidilj.com\/worklog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidilj.com\/worklog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidilj.com\/worklog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/aidilj.com\/worklog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375,"href":"https:\/\/aidilj.com\/worklog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidilj.com\/worklog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidilj.com\/worklog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidilj.com\/worklog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}