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Today, a vehicle that comes factory-equipped with xenon lighting uses a 35w lighting system.Ī Xenon HID bulb does not have a filament, instead it has two electrodes that meet inside the xenon-glass filled bulb. This xenon gas is ignited and creates a vast and powerful amount of light output that can be measured in thousands of Lumen, depending on the power consumption (normally 35w, 55w or 75w). An HID light bulb (stands for High Intensity Discharge) is filled with Xenon gas which reacts to the spark created inside the HID bulb.
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This is not to be confused with Xenon or HID bulbs – they don’t necessarily mean the same thing. This is why we call standard automotive headlights “halogen bulbs”. High-power incandescent light bulbs used in car headlights are filled with a gas called Halogen, and it reacts to the brightly glowing filament and creates a massive amount of light, up to 1,200 Lumen of light output. This is why we call light bulbs with filaments, incandescent light bulbs. A standard light bulb has a filament, and it gets electricity applied to each side of the filament and when this happens the filament gets very hot and reaches a state of incandescence. And I’m sure you’ve heard of Thomas Edison, who invented the first long-lasting incandescent light bulb in 1879, what most vehicles use in their modern day headlamps are based off of his original designs. The original automobiles literally used lamps (glass housing with a candle burning inside) to light the way on the roads, similar to how people would light the way on horseback. Just because the bulbs are shaped similarly, doesn’t mean they share many traits.