Has anyone tried these high wattage ballasts! I saw some of these from XENLIGHT and XENONVALOT (I think this made by Auerswald Germany ).

If anyone did, how is the quality of these ballasts compared to Philips, Hella ballasts?!

Thank you

 

never tried it but i guess the bulb would be brigher. i thought they are mainly for 8000k hid coz' they are so dim

 

I am not sure, but i think they also work for 6000K , 7000K and 8000K (i think XENONVALOT utilise these bulbs)...

 

Yes,they work with any bulb ( 6000k, 8000k.....) If you have this ballast bulb life is much shorter then with 35W ballast.

 

what he said.

 

"High quality D2 gas discharge lamps (Philips, Osram, GE Xensation, Hella) used in Xenon automotive and other D2 applications are designed to withstand wattage rises / run-ups to 70W so the burning time (approx 2000hours with todays lamps) is not in any way compromised by this boosting application. The boosting is done by increasing the inner pressure of the lamp and via this producing more light power from a single burner unit. "

... That's what XENONVALOT says!!

Any idea?!

 

We were under the assumption that you were using the same bulbs as the 35W ones. The high wattage bulbs (I forgot the model numbers) are made to withstand that power but at a higher $$$

 

btw, life expenctancy for standard 35W HID bulbs are supposedly rated to last 10,000 hours.

 

Never ever heard of 10K.... more like around 2-3K.

 

You're right. Philips makes such bulbs (MPXL-DL50) ...I am just thinking of how will be the light produced by high wattage ballasts with these bulbs.
I really like SOARISTO mod on his ballasts ... great work!! But I think I cann't do it!

 

soaristo mod is the best.. i brought it up to 75w...and can bring it even higher..





for 50w ballast... you gain about 20% more light..

I'm currently working on a mond that will boost the wattage up to about 100w..hehe :

will update you guys when i got the time... anyone got any advice or sharing or anything.. just email me at bathieutu@yahoo.com

 

can the bulb withhold there?

 

yeah.. it hold find.. this bulb is capable of withstanding 75w...hehe
i have been runing 75w at night and 25w during the day and i commute alot for the past year and it's still find.

I'm going to try boosting it up to 100w...

as of right now... i cast huge shadows on every OEM car out there..even honda S2000

 

I can vouch for bath hes a good guy. The application in which higher watt ballast can be used is minimal considering there intense brightness. You can ofcourse drive around with something like the power of 2 stadium lights on your car but that would attract more unwanted attention and potencially be hazardous to incoming traffic as you would actually momentarly blind them. These would be ideal to use in offroad situations but practical application in my opinion is pointless.

 

very interesting. the pics are from a bike, i wonder what it woudl be like if it's from a normal car