i was bein jus like you  :)

so your sayin yours has its skirt up on a hoist ?

Unfortunately your talking about halogen bulbs, ie, those common
everyday bulbs from ya 3 volt eveready torch to your 130 watt spottie
bulbs to ya ARB fatboy 180 watt bulbs, to ya 1500 watt halogen 240 volt
spot light bulbs sitting in ya local football grand stand.

HID bulbs are technically way more advanced and has very little in
common with filament technology. HID bulbs have no filament. Call them
wireless!  Filaments were invented by old mate Edason dude back in the
early 1800's. HID's or metal halide were invented around the early
1900's. There is way less heat. Basically the same principle as the old
carbon rod arc bulbs as used in movie theatres back in the 1920's. Also
called Metal Halide. A high voltage is applied to two rods within a gas
and the result is more light per bit of energy used, as compared to
wire filaments. "High voltage" is classified as upwards of anywhere
between 15,000 to 25,000 volts. Upon the arc being created, the voltage
is then dropped to around the tyical 75 to 90 volts to keep the arc in
place. Think of 'welding' brightness, but instead of 3 volts at 120
amps, these bulbs run at around 90 volts and 0.5 to 1 amp.

In simple terms, one single 35 watt HID bulb is around three times as
bright (in lumens) as a typical 100 watt bulb. Hence why Hella Predator
lights cost $1500.00 each. Lightforce 240 HID cost around $1150.00
each.

So a 50 watt HID is around 4 to 5 times as bright as a typical 100 watt
bulb.
Draws around 4 amps. Instead of the typical 8 for a 100 watt and 10
amps for a 130 watt bulb.

The difference between a 100 watt halogen bulb and a 130 watt bulb is
really bugger all, except a lot more heat is generated. Your better off
running more lights with 55 watt halogen bulbs than going with a 130
watt. Or going to 24 volt globes.

Anyway, Anything over 60 watts within vehicle headlights are illegal,
as per current ADR 13 rules. Auxiallary spot lights that are wired
correctly are 'anything goes'.

Regardless of what other peeps think about HID's, they are indeed the
way of the future for vehicle headlights. Euro cars are now being
imported into this country with HID's, with the fancy anti-dazzle
stuff. Personally I reckon that within five years, all new vehicles
being sold on the market will either have HID's or LED's as their
headlights. Australian ADR's will change to allow such vehicles into
the country.

And yep, granted, my coupla vids are pretty crap. No digi camera will
ever do justice to colours at night. People reading this should know
that. But the difference between, say, a pair of standard 100 watt
Lightforce XGT's (around 16 to 18 amps of current being drawn) and that
of a pair of modified XGT's with HID bulbs (current draw of around 7
amps) is like that of a AA battery powered bulb torch to a 6 volt
dolphin torch. (if you dont get the drift, the difference is bloody
huge)

HID kits are coming down in price. There is an OEM Hella HID KIT on
ebay now for $150.00.   For the price of that, and what you get
(brightness, longer life, awesome light output), halogen bulbs are
ancient history.
And for those that will still reply to me and bag me out, other than
'have fun', ya's quite obviously have not driven at night with such
light, otherwise ya'd be all for it. Or maybe ya's do have them and
ya's just think it is hell fun to bag me out, make yaselves think that
ya look awesome to others who read this, and ya ego goes thru the roof.
Either way go for it and have ya fun.

Yep. When I first got my Toyota I was astounded at the poor quality of
the headlight wiring. I reckon it is inadequate for the stock wattage,
never mind an upgrade.

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Tis called headlight aim. Or headlight re-adjustment. I thought it was
pretty obvious, but apparetly I'm wrong.