Re: Anyone tried Zenon bulbs?

["George Turner, Jr." <george@dxnet.com>]

wow brian...i dont wanna sound lame...but can you explain this again so i can understand it..8)
i use to drive a honda...so i am a little slow with things..
geo
- -----Original Message-----
From: Brian Gracek <bgracek@cloudnet.com>
To: jettaglx@igtc.COM <jettaglx@igtc.COM>
Date: Friday, May 29, 1998 8:30 AM
Subject: Re: Anyone tried Zenon bulbs?


>>     Hi,   This is the day of many questions from Stefan.   Has anyone
>>tried putting Xenon bulbs on the car?  These  are the headlight bulbs that
>>are in the Mercedes, Porsche and a couple other  cares that are white not
>>yellow.   They look really cool IMHO.   Thanks,   Stefan.
>
>There is much confusion on this subject!  I have the Xenon charged filament
>type lamps with NO change in output.
>
>The zenon "bulbs" for our cars are simple Halogen Lamps with some Xenon gas
>added (Xenon is one of the "noble gasses").  The High Intensity Discharge
>lamps in those "expensive" cars are COMPLETELY DIFFERENT, they use an arc
>across a high voltage potential using ballast to create the high voltage
>needed.  There is no fillament in the lamps at all, the high voltage across
>the elecrode gap allows the arc to reach very high temperatures
>(4200Kelvin, 3937 Degrees Celcius or  7124 degrees Farenheit!).  The
>surface of our sun is around 4800 kelvin (*of course the core is millions
>of degrees).  These lamps cost around $3000.00!  They have a light "ouput"
>like a 150+ watt lamp with truer color (white light instead of yellowish).
>
>*physics warning*
>
>Black body radiation theory shows us that the hotter an object the shorter
>the peak wavelength emitted  *lamba max* (higher the frequency of the
>photon).  Red is a "cool" color and Blue-violet is a hot color (UltraViolet
>is a very hot color).  Yellow is in the middle of the heat range.
>
>The Filament in our conventional headlamps reach temps in the 2200K range
>at most, so we see a yellow light.
>
>Intensity of light is different from color, 100Watt and 55Watt lamps are of
>simmilar color but there are more total photons from the 100Watt lamp.
>
>
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>Brian M. Gracek Saint Cloud, Minnesota, USA
>
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