HID Car Headlights

i8urbabi

i8urbabi

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So being a car guy and havin this hobby i thought of mixing the two a bit. I looked around a bit to see if i could drag up any previous history with it but no luck.

Basically newer cars have HID lights in them for headlamps. They have their own ballast and all. The neat thing about the bulb is they are alot cheaper it seems. But im not an electrician so i cant provide all technical specs. Car headlights can be purchased by the temp. ranging from 1k all the way to 10k even. obviously we'd want mainly something 3-5k depending on the person. Seeing the average HID bulb is 55watts it doesnt seem like itd be too bad to try to run a set of these for a plant. But then agian someone with the knowledge might be able to tell if theyd be worth it. they are just so little, imagine a board of them:shock:

just an idea
 
just when you thought you'd seen it all...

try it...

i wanna see!!!

i know the new luxury cars have HID lighting, and i've seen some of them with the round bulbs in sort of a soft whitish color...

give it a try!!!
 
id love to try it, but im not the electrician to go and wire this stuff up lol. I can install them into a car, figure out what youd need to run them probably, but im not the guy to do it lol. Im sure theres people here who would put this to the best test. I should bring this up in the electricans thread too...
 
It could work for veg but not enough lumens for flowering. They only shell out 3000 on the high end, and 1000 on the low end. Far short of the recommended 10,000.
 
They would have to run 12V DC and amp should be listed on the ballast unit.

After determining that, all you would need is an inverter that turns your alternating current into direct current (diode) and supports the total amp load from the ballast.

I don't know if you'll see any real cost or performance benefit from these lights though...but I can appreciate the novelty ;)
 
Well i couldnt tell you the amps. mine do not have that information on them, i tried looking online but couldnt find too much. maybe someone intrested will have better luck in that. But they are all generally Xenon gas filled which to my knowledge creates the closest daylight spectrum. and ive seen these things up at 30k so whatever temp or colors your looking for they have. I really wish i could do a grow with a set or maybe a couple sets. maybe someone could figure a way to take a larger ballast and distribute the power through many smaller bulbs? idk i could put out ideas all night lol. i just like that fact you can buy the exact temp you want

but just think if you could use a set of headlight assemblys. nice compact small focused light beam source pointer :-P

i can see eventually people trying to find out what the best model of headlight assemblies are for our occasion. ill take a set off the new f-350's :fire: lol. theyre HUGE
 
i8urbabi said:
Well i couldnt tell you the amps. mine do not have that information on them, i tried looking online but couldnt find too much. maybe someone intrested will have better luck in that. But they are all generally Xenon gas filled which to my knowledge creates the closest daylight spectrum. and ive seen these things up at 30k so whatever temp or colors your looking for they have. I really wish i could do a grow with a set or maybe a couple sets. maybe someone could figure a way to take a larger ballast and distribute the power through many smaller bulbs? idk i could put out ideas all night lol. i just like that fact you can buy the exact temp you want

but just think if you could use a set of headlight assemblys. nice compact small focused light beam source pointer :-P

i can see eventually people trying to find out what the best model of headlight assemblies are for our occasion. ill take a set off the new f-350's :fire: lol. theyre HUGE
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amps = watts divided by volts
4.58a = 55w/12vdc per lamp
you would need a minimum 13amp power supply to run 2 lamps, as power supplies must be rated for continous duty for this type of application ;)
good luck with it
 
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