Here, here, Scott! I second the notion.
My friend used to carry a hand held spot light that
put out 1 million candle power light. He'd flash it to
people that had super-bright lights and/or had their
high beams on for no apparent reason but to blind you.
I finally told him "Do you really think that they get
it? I mean, they're stupid enough to blind someone
heading TOWARDS them at speeds exceeding 40 miles per
hour. Do you think they're going to understand why
you're flashing them? At most they'll slow down
because they're going to think you're signaling them
there's a speed trap ahead. And at least, you're going
to blind them worse then they're blinding you and
you're going to have a head on collision. Half of
these people are in SUV's and I doubt that they even
know they have High Intensity bulbs, any more than
they know what displacement or # of cylinders in their
engine." -the speech went something like that anyhow.
Eventually he stopped. But I later found out that his
father's practice was to regularly adjust his REARVIEW
mirror while standing behind the car so that it would
reflect the headlights of people in SUV's behind him.
(he, the father, was an FBI agent....And I'm the
uneducated red-neck...Sheayah.) I need to find a
desert island.
ANYHOOO...
I too have found that some back roads that are too
dark for your regular incandescent lights to be useful
for seeing more than 30 feet ahead of you. And I think
that a set of higher output lights would be welcome on
overcast/moonless/starless/unlit/tree-lined narrow
back roads. I'm using sealed Halogens ($8-14/ea? pep
boys) and they are less than adequate for the above
conditions, but they're usable and slightly better
than incandescents (I just have alltogther bad
vision).
My suggestion is that you don't super intensify your
turnsignals/brake lamps/running lamps/headlamps. All
that will do is cost you money to annoy people that
you may or may not want to annoy.
JC whitney sells HID systems, Halogen w/seperate
element bulbs, fog lights and an assortment of
accessory lights if you're interested. And wire them
through a switch that you can flip off for oncoming
traffic. And you can get H4 bulbs w/Xenon for like $12
ea. to use in some of them, and they probably have the
same lights and cheaper through your local auto parts
place.
-Terry
'76 spitfire 1500
Anyone going to BOG in April? (Britain On the Green in
Mount Vernon, VA)
--- "Scott A. Roberts" <herald1200@home.com> wrote:
>
> The guy who invented those stinking blue tinted
> lights ought to be taken for
> a long ride in a low car, with his hands strapped
> down, and those eye things
> form "Clockwork Orange" in place, then driven past
> an endless line of blue
> headlights coming at him, high beams on, as they
> always seem to be. Maybe
> then he'll repent for those d... things.
>
> I also think Hi-Beam indicators ought to have the
> automatic dipping systems
> like GM had in the 50's, or a device to inflict
> small doses of taser-like
> stimulation to those who refuse to dim their
> headlights when you're coming
> toward them, or are directly in front of them.
>
> Come to think of it, headlights on those nasty SUVs
> and pickups(of which I
> own one) ought to be required to be at the same
> level as the average
> passenger car, thus not blinding me from behind
> while I sit in the
> Drive-Thru, or at a traffic light.
>
> Maybe we oughta retrofit all cars with infra-red
> sensing windshields, and
> infra-red headlights. But then you'd have these
> Bozos with extra strong
> infra-red headlights melting each other, or at least
> giving heavy tans.
>
> Once they get radar into cars, some dummy is going
> to have to run his at
> full tilt, thus creating the transportable
> microwave...(Honey, when I bring
> the groceries home in your car, all the popcorn pops
> itself!) Talk about a
> drive in diner!
>
> Scott
> from the land of Ramble...
> 64 Herald 1200 Convertible
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "alemen@pop.ftconnect.com"
> <alemen@mail.ftconnect.com>
> To: <karbuff@optonline.net>; <destaff@yahoo.com>;
> <spitfires@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 10:07 AM
> Subject: RE: Re: HID lights, are these for real?
>
>
> >
> > Chris, Atwell, Also blue coated lights are illegal
> in some places. I don't
> think they are real HID either, as like you said
> their is no transformer.
> Also consider if your wiring harness will take the
> current. If you do put in
> this, best bet is to use separate power lines from
> the battery using a relay
> switched with the old wiring. Save meltdown on a wet
> dark night in the
> middle of no-where!
> >
> > It sounds a bit like what some of the vendors sell
> to convert from the old
> sealed beam units to the European/modern style with
> separate lamps and
> reflectors but with a higher output lamp.
> >
> >
> > Alan
> >
> > Original Message:
> > -----------------
> > From: Atwell Haines karbuff@optonline.net
> > Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 18:12:13 -0500
> > To: destaff@yahoo.com, spitfires@autox.team.net
> > Subject: Re: HID lights, are these for real?
> >
> >
> >
> > At 12:33 PM 3/20/2001 -0800, Chris DeStaffany
> wrote:
> >
> > >This guy on Ebay has lights that he claims are;
> > >
> > >"This set is complete it includes: 2 Sealed beam
> 6024
> > >conversion housings, 2 rubber covers (keep
> housings
> > >dry), 2 65/55 Standard Wattage Xenon H4 bulbs
> with and
> > >output of 90/100W." for $39.95.
> > >
> > >The cheapest that I have seen is around $500 and
> they
> > >go for as much as $2000. There is no mention of
> any
> > >transformer and the wattage seems high for HID.
> He
> > >also claims that they are both 65 watts and 90
> watts
> > >and that's a little strange. But, he has tons of
> good
> > >feedback. Maybe there not real HID's but might
> be a
> > >good deal anyway? Any body out there got an
> opinion?
> >
> > I do. :)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Oh, you wanted to hear it? %-0
> >
> > I'm sure those are not really HID lights. Jeez,
> the transformers alone
> > would cost more than $40.
> >
> > Don't buy those blue-coated bulbs either. Blue is
> a difficult part of the
> > spectrum for human eyes to see. White is better.
> >
> > JMHO
> >
> > Atwell Haines
> > '79 Spitfire - with US Spec, non-halogen
> headlights (almost as dim as the
> > dash lights)
> > '88 Lotus - with US Spec quad sealed beam halogens
> > '99 Acura TL - with true HID blue-white low
> beams/QI high beams
> > Succasunna, NJ USA
> >
> >
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