55W is legal limit in most countries. i don't know about the US. there
should be no need for more on a road car. if you need more, the wiring
should be checked and you should make sure the alternator / generator is up
to the load.
marc's comments as usual are random, unsubstantiated and nonsensical. the
vast majority of bulbs you buy now are halogen. Modern 55W H4 Xenon bulbs
can be purchased in a variety of colors from bluey white to old fashioned
looking yellow and are anything up to 200% brighter than halogens.
blue/white bulbs might illuminate well but they are worse than useless in
fog. most dazzling of other drivers is due to the direction of the light
rather than the power. i'm surprised that in all the states i have
experience of, nowhere actually checks headlight alignment at the annual
safety inspection.
now if you want true daylight, you should try the lights i used on my
recent rally through the length of africa. i was testing them for the
manufacturer, Light Force in Australia. 50W HID spot lights with
selectable lenses for spot, driving beams and fog. absolutely fantastic -
illuminate everything for miles, but they do fry everything in sight coming
the other way!
On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 5:57 PM, <CoolVT@aol.com> wrote:
> Many places now consider 100W as "off-road" lights.
>
>
> In a message dated 2/5/2012 4:59:25 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> TIGEROOTES@aol.com writes:
>
> Tym,
>
> I began using Cibie halogen headlights with 55 watt low beam and 100 watt
> high beam bulbs, back in the late 70s in my Alpine 5. A few years later,
> I
> bought my Tiger and used the same lamps. I didn't improve the wiring and
> it worked fine in both cars. By the way, in those days only Washington
> State and Pennsylvania allowed Halogen bulbs to be used on-the-road,
> limited
> to a maximum 55 watts. Washington didn't allow (rear) amber turn signal
> lenses until the early 80s!
>
> Jim Leach Pacific Tiger Club Seattle
> ---------------------
> I was reading an article in Hemmings Muscle Machines re replacing
> incandescent headlamps with halogens.
> The article also talks about utilizing a wiring harness from Painless
> Wiring. Has anyone out there made this type of switch.
> Maybe it's me getting older, but I would love to have brighter headlamps
> on my Tiger.
>
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>
> Tym McDowell
> '66 MK1A (The Nuclear Banana)
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