Originally Posted by Sedoy

Finally, installed:

• Clear (waffles-free) headlights.
• CCFL angel eyes.
• 50W HID Ballasts and 50W Philips DL50 Bulbs
• Blue LED Projector illumination.

* Sorry for the shitty pictures, couldn’t find my good digital camera *






CCLF (Cold Cathode Fluorescent Light) Angel Eyes:

Color - White, 43000 mcd. Very bright, visible in daylight, pictures don’t represent actual brightness and shape very well. They look slightly brighter and without lens reflection in person.

http://home.comcast.net/~saykin/Angel_Eye_1s.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~saykin/Angel_Eye_2s.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~saykin/Angel_Eye_3s.jpg





50W HID Ballasts and 50W Philips DL50 Bulbs:

Bulb color - 4500K, from white to blue depending on view angle due to cutoff shield that creates the color range and the curvature of the projector lens which amplifies it.

Picture from the ground level:

http://home.comcast.net/~saykin/50W.jpg


Brightness = Wow! 20-30% brighter than any stock HID systems, beam pattern significantly wider. I installed true 50W HID Ballasts not the HID boost amplifiers. Most important part is the 50W Philips DL50 Bulbs which are really rare and expensive. Here are the specs (I got newer DL50 so the color is 4500K, not 3900K):

http://home.comcast.net/~saykin/DL50-1.jpg

http://home.comcast.net/~saykin/DL50-0.jpg


DL50 Bulb is fatter than regular HIDs bulb, hot DL50s have an internal pressure about 40 bars. Light output is about 5300 lm, which is 20-30% brighter than stock (35W) HID bulbs. I spend a lot of time leveling my headlights to make sure they won’t blind oncoming traffic. No complains so far.

50W ballast was powered through a relay straight from the battery to HID ballast to remove increased current load from stock headlight circuit. The startup load for one 50W ballast can be up to 13-16 amps vs. 7-10 amps for stock halogens. Also 30A fuse was installed to protect the wires. Here is the simple diagram:

http://home.comcast.net/~saykin/Diagram.jpg





Blue LED Projector illumination:

5mm blue LED installed to illuminate projector. I used cutoff shield as the reflector to focus light on the lens.

http://home.comcast.net/~saykin/LED1.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~saykin/LED3.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~saykin/LED4.jpg

http://home.comcast.net/~saykin/Blue_LED_1s.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~saykin/Blue_LED_2s.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~saykin/Blue_LED_3s.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~saykin/Blue_LED_4s.jpg



Here are the separate switches for Angel eyes and LED illumination:


http://home.comcast.net/~saykin/switch.jpg

Originally Posted by cj10jeeper

Sedoy - yes - I was referring to the main beam only I should have been clearer - of course the HID lens focusses the light. I'm sure the waffle/lens is a component of focussing the beam (else why have the complex lanes pattern).

Staffop - glad to see it clears the UK MOT without despite rather random beam pattern as that was the concern. BTW if the 'staff' part relates to Staffs. we may live within miles of each other - S. Lichfield area?