colorob
Is right, and I'm glad he chimed in with that explanation because I wasn't sure if my facts were 100%. They were but I wanted someone else to verify them. Please check out one of my prior posts on this that goes into more detail as well, but here are a few thoughts:
- If there is no ballast it is not xenon/HID. You're buying a "fake" xenon setup...the bulb might be brighter but it's both not the real deal and you will risk longevity issues with the bulbs.
- Yes the high is an issue because of the delay, it's not on all the time like the low. If you like to toggle your high beam, don't convert the high. (I wired my low into my high so that I'm not in the dark while waiting for the high to come on, this is the way to go if you're doing both) If you only want to use it during the day and on back roads (long-term) then convert the high. One other thing he was right about is after you have it burning for a bit, you can shut it down (for oncoming traffic here and there) and it will fire right back up and you can toggle it. You just cannot count on your high beam in an instant like before, you need to know that!
I considered the ones you are looking at and it wasn't worth it to me...for $300 shipped I got a serious, professional plug and play kit that was probably the best mod done to my bike. And you can cut that in half for just the low.
FlyerLen said:
Thanks for the explanation! Since these are “plug and play” replacement bulbs, it looks like the only difference between these xenon replacements and the full HIDs is that the xenons don’t require a transformer(?) to be installed? At $60 for the set, and an easier job to replace them, I’m seriously considering giving them a go…
Has anybody had any issues with the warm-up delay on the hi’s? I’ve been flipping my hi beams on when I (legally!) split heavier traffic lately—to increase my chances of being seen by the text-messaging soccer moms—and I’m concerned the delay could be an issue?
Thanks!