HID?!
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Not an electrical engineer, but here is my take:
HID headlights need to "charge up" before it can illuminate at its full potential. Hence when you turn your fancy HID headlights on, there is about a 1/2-second or 2-second delay before the lights actually light up -- the light looks a little dimmer during that delay/charge up period.
Halogens don't have that problem. With that, it makes very little sense to have HID high beams; a lot of times people only use the high beams to flash. In other words, HID high beams won't flash properly.
HID headlights need to "charge up" before it can illuminate at its full potential. Hence when you turn your fancy HID headlights on, there is about a 1/2-second or 2-second delay before the lights actually light up -- the light looks a little dimmer during that delay/charge up period.
Halogens don't have that problem. With that, it makes very little sense to have HID high beams; a lot of times people only use the high beams to flash. In other words, HID high beams won't flash properly.
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Originally Posted by MulderATO,Jul 6 2006, 09:53 PM
Actually, the first car sold in the US which had HIDs was the '96 Lincoln Mark VIII.
Gotta look that up somewhere.
Edit: according to the Sylvania website, you're right. '95 Mark VIII was the first car in the US market to offer HIDs.
http://www.sylvania.com/ConsumerProducts/A...ntQuestions.htm
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