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From the little bit I've read so far I think 3000K might be a similar colour to the halogens, rather than the intense yellow of dedicated fog lights. Also, unless you rewire them to turn on separately from the regular high beams you will still have a flood of bright white 5000K light from the bi-xenon high beam generating glare in the fog anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by Graeme
Only one way to find out for sure...
All the best.
The bi-xenon high beam hasn't been too bad in the light fog I've encountered of late but the halogens bouncing off heavier fog higher up has often made high beam unuseable.
I'll be pleased if the 3000K HID are about halogen colour as I've never found yellow fog lights of much use but can do without the glare even from 4300K. But as you say, I'll find out in due course if they're worthwhile. I'll use the ballasts from my driving lights and if the 3000K are worthwhile, I'll buy another kit with H3C HID globes for the driving lights rather than use the current H3 so as to get back to the original light pattern.
Only the 3000K in fog? Hmm, I could be tempted to do something about that one day.
Beamin,
Sorry your results didn't replicate mine.
But your original halogen high beams were way higher out of alignment than mine were! It's likely that is the reason for the different results.
It seems that there is a great deal more variation to the alignment issue than I previously believed.
Anyways, as an update, I am still happy with the 6000K Xenon infills.
I have noted that they take a bit of time to warm-up to full output when first used each trip. But after that they light-up the road at full power after each time you dip for either a short or relatively long duration.
I'm still enjoying the opportunity to use high beam whenever I can. :D
The Zenons cannot be used as flash lights which is why they are halogens I think.
What do you mean "flash lights"?
Is that anything like the emergency service vehicles with their alternating high beams flashing on & off?
If you flash your lights (pull back on the stalk) in most cars the high beam comes on. If you have Xenons they are too slow to warm up so the halgen lights come on instead. If the lights are on the shutter on the Xenons will be raised as well. Hope that makes sense.
Yeap makes sense. Thanks.
I've not found any real problem with using my replacement Xenons to flash if/when required. But I do restain myself because of an unfounded fear that too many flashes may reduce the life of either the xenon bulb or the ballast.
Just got a call from the dealer, my September 10 build SE will be MY11 spec, one of the changes is the dropppiing of the bi-xenons and halogens with the signature lighting instead. The xenons are now a $700 option on the SE. Considering the issues would most agree it is still worthwhile getting the bi-xenons?
I expect the halogen high beam issue will eventually be resolved so don't consider that to be any reason to avoid the bi-xenons.Quote:
Originally Posted by MartyJB
I find the bi-xenon high beam considerably better than my D2a that was fitted with +50 high beam globes, which is useful when there's oncoming traffic in the distance when the driving lights can't be used. However I still require the driving lights for their enormous light output.
I fitted 3000K HID globes in the high beams today using the ballasts for my temporarily-removed driving lights running off the driving light relay. I will later convert to run directly from the high beam supply when I get a set H3C globes and ballasts for the driving lights. The colour is currently quite yellow but I expect it to whiten-up a little as occurred with my 4700K driving lights which were quite yellow initially.
I reduced the tab on each globe which lowered the beam to illuminate the road rather than just the possums, although not quite as much as is needed but very useable unlike the originals. Switching off the driving light switch to use only the bi-xenons reveals the huge amount of light the new globes produce even though they are quite yellow. I've only driven the short distance to my 1st gate but can see the spread across the paddock each side. I think they will do just what I wanted.