Re: PIAA Lights

[Thomas Emberson <thomas@xxxxxxx>]

Blake,

I am not going to disagree with you, but I will add:

I just put some sylvania super white bulbs on my truck. Why, the
truck has almost 40,000 miles on it and I am about to drive it up
to Canada, pre-emptive strike.

So I replace one bulb and took it for a drive in the country, and
did some very scientific testing. That is my I blocked each head
light with my body for 10 or so seconds at a time. To both my GF
(still in cab, too cold for her to leave), it appeared that the
light was a bit less yellowish, and was a bit more visable throughout
the coverage, left to right.

very subjective, but it was easier to see the road/grass with the
new bulb, over the OEM.

BUT, the old bulb has 38,6** miles on it. Both OEM bulbs had
filliments that where uneven, the bulbs where starting that halogen
death spiral.

As well, these bulbs where $2 more expensive for the set at Walley
World.

FWIW,
Thom


On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Blake Sobiloff wrote:

> Keith W Peters wrote:
> 
> 
> > "We have had very good reports of our EWC-1 bulbs. These bulbs draw 60 
> > watts on main beam and 55 watts on dip beam yet give equivalent power of 
> > 110w on main and 100 on dip.
> 
> Sorry, but this kind of bunk drives me nutz. There is absolutely no way
> 
> that 60w=110w. If you put their bulbs on an integrating sphere you'll find that
> 
> they put out the exact same amount of light as "regular" bulbs. The trick
> is that the hot spot produced by these lights *is* brighter, but by 
> taking away illumination from the edges. (Edge lighting's useful for 
> little things like corners, seeing deer at the side of the roadway, etc.)
> 
> Read all the technical details at 
> <http://lighting.mbz.org/tech/info/superwhites/>.
> 
> Now, why would you want to spend your money with a company that lies to 
> you and charges you a premium on top of it? :-)
> 
> Thanks, I feel better now.
> 
> -- 
> Blake "Dawgbert" Sobiloff <sobiloff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Burlingame, CA, USA
> 
> 
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