can somebody tell me or post a pic of projector of headlight??

i dont know what it is ...... i meant i know the meaning of the word but which parts from headlights.....

what is exactly a projector on our headlights???
thank you

 

The "projector" part of the HID system is the lens that the light shines through. That's the part you see if you look directly at the headlight - the round lens thing that look like really, really thick glasses on a near-sighted person. This is the same kind of lens that you see on a slide or movie projector, hence the name. The light from the lamp goes through this lens and gets "focussed" into a pattern and a distance that is deemed suitable for a car driving down a road. Because the light is shot "through" the lens as opposed to being reflected back by the shiny, parabollic surface of the typical sealed beam headlight, it needs to be very high in lumens ("high intensity"). Passing light through a lens diminishes it's brightness so you need more to begin with. The bonus is that the light is scattered less for a more efficient pattern of illumination.

 

The part where the light actually comes through.

 

Has anyone had a HID burn out yet?

What is the normal life span of a HID light?

 

Yes, in a sense. Ballasts and ignitors have been known to fail, as has been the bulbs. Any of these are quite expensive to replace.
I've heard the number 10,000 hours for the bulb being thrown around, but this was not a documented number.

 

I got some HIDs from a Toyota to retrofit onto my '87 Subaru for the bling factor, but now I don't have the 5000 volts to power them.

 

thank you guys great help