New H11 Bulbs...

ErikM · Post by **ErikM** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 6:12 pm

Wonder if these are availbale in the US yet? http://www.powerbulbs.com/product_detail.asp?prod=113

Post by **celticus** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 5:37 pm

"Up to 90% more light". That's hard for me to believe.
Mark

ErikM · Post by **ErikM** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 6:24 pm

Me too. But the Bulbs ARE from a reputable company, Oscram makes a good product.

Post by **deilenberger** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 6:34 pm

Their 50% more bulbs made very close to 50% more in some rather extensive testing I did for the BMW Car Club of America..

The downside of +90% bulbs will be bulb life. You could achieve this if you used a different design called "HIR" (Google it..) - but if these are standard halogens - they're tightening up the filament to make it brighter, which results in a shorter lifetime.

Tradeoffs in everything..

ErikM · Post by **ErikM** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 7:04 pm

I read about HIR's in the past. Oscram is doing what you said, tighter tolerances thinner fliaments, etc. If they acheive 75% of the life of a standard bulb that would OK by me.