@paintballgundown8 Yes, it was constantly striking. The only reason why it worked was due to the filament being broken. The wattage of the bulb wont really impact this, unless the gap changed. Bottom line, its never going to work like a HID bulb, this only 'looked' like it worked. I was just messing around.
@ericspda yeah i never thought that this was really "working" in any way shape or form. I just thought if it can get past the initial striking phase, would the 35w run the bulb like normal. I thought it was a dual filament or something but because no filament its just jumping the gap as if it was hid.
im wondering does this simulate repeated on/off that will wear out the ballast.
@paintballgundown8 It will never get into steady state, since a HID bulb wants about 60V during this phase, and the ballast regulates it to 35W. If you left the bulb intact, the ballast likely wouldn't even fire due to the low resistance, and it might even damage the ballast. Even if it did manage to attempt to run in steady state, it would take something like 8V at 35W, which I would imagine the ballast would not be capable of doing due to the boost topology. Bottom line: It wont work, at all.
Funny, people talk about reflector housings plus HID bulbs being bad, and yes it can be, but I have no issues in my 2003 Grand Prix, never get flashed, and I have them aimed where they light up the road about as well as my friend's car with a set of proper projectors. I plan on modding in bi-xenon projectors because I miss having high-beams, but for now, I have no issues.
I have after market hid lights and the light is scattered. Any reason why? I checked the inside of my projector lenses, and it does have that metal shield just after the hid's that I thought was responsible for making the light shine straight from left to right. Instead its shining in the road and in other drivers eyes.
@BlackCaScorpio They are low quality chinese made kits that were not designed to work with your OEM reflector based headlights. The headlight housing is simply not made for it, so it generally results in a poor beam pattern and most of the light going into other drivers eyes. There is absolutely no way to fix this, without retrofitting a proper HID projector into your car.
@ericspda that's the one thing that annoys me about hids... the majority of people, it seems, are either oblivious to or simply ignore the fact that if you're changing from a filament bulb to hids, you need to get the proper projector housing for them...
all those people that do that give the rest of us with proper kits a bad name...
It's more than possible that the arc produces high enough temperature for the xenon to actually glow... But... Since that isn't done by the tungsten don't expect it to last long... It's not problem for the transformer - ballast... since the load on it, is far less that it would be with unbroken filament... The ballast actually detects that the filament is broken and resets.... But generally a broken filament won't hurt the ballast.... ;-)
you should deff never do that again unless you want shards of glass in your eyes and skin. you fucking retard.. sunnyatscot is right.. you must be retarded or canadian.
@LukeGeeeezy You assume I was wearing no kind of eye protection. If you understand basic mechanics behind a halogen bulb, you would know the risk of this exploding is terribly low when handled correctly. If it exploded for other people, it was likely due to the oils from their skin being on the glass.
@ericspda if you knew anything about halogen bulbs you would know that hooking up a halogen bulb to an HID ballast increases that risk of explosion by about 300%
You should have Body and Eye protection on... Along with the Bulb housed in some kind of enclosure box. You'r lucky it didn't explode. Not trying to be a jerk or anything but, man use your brain. That is OMG Dangerous!
Yes. It's actually a Xenon-filled 9006 halogen lamp. I have attempted it before, but with homebuilt electronic ballast (to keep it lit continuously - with 1,100 volts continuous-lighting voltage after a nice burst o' juice of 10,000 volts ignition)
Well, not with bare bulb (I wouldn't attempt this, very bad idea.) I used a Xenon-filled sealed halogen lamp
That sounds such a dissapointed little "ahhhhhhh" when the bulb failed - I was just suprised there was no "ooooh!" happy noise when it came on again :)
Quite impressive experiment you did. I might be tempted to have a play with mine now :)
It is designed to ionize the gas in a HID lamp, so it is a high voltage, high current power source. It will work with ANY discharge tube. It won't wreck the ballast, as it is designed for ionizing gasses.
is the ballast continually trying to strike it? 25w or 55w kit should run a halogen right? what if you use a 100w halogen?
paintballgundown8 5 months ago
@paintballgundown8 Yes, it was constantly striking. The only reason why it worked was due to the filament being broken. The wattage of the bulb wont really impact this, unless the gap changed. Bottom line, its never going to work like a HID bulb, this only 'looked' like it worked. I was just messing around.
ericspda 5 months ago
@ericspda yeah i never thought that this was really "working" in any way shape or form. I just thought if it can get past the initial striking phase, would the 35w run the bulb like normal. I thought it was a dual filament or something but because no filament its just jumping the gap as if it was hid.
im wondering does this simulate repeated on/off that will wear out the ballast.
paintballgundown8 5 months ago
@paintballgundown8 It will never get into steady state, since a HID bulb wants about 60V during this phase, and the ballast regulates it to 35W. If you left the bulb intact, the ballast likely wouldn't even fire due to the low resistance, and it might even damage the ballast. Even if it did manage to attempt to run in steady state, it would take something like 8V at 35W, which I would imagine the ballast would not be capable of doing due to the boost topology. Bottom line: It wont work, at all.
ericspda 5 months ago
0:21 smoke from your body oil?
Stracer74 6 months ago
@Stracer74 Most likely.
ericspda 6 months ago
Funny, people talk about reflector housings plus HID bulbs being bad, and yes it can be, but I have no issues in my 2003 Grand Prix, never get flashed, and I have them aimed where they light up the road about as well as my friend's car with a set of proper projectors. I plan on modding in bi-xenon projectors because I miss having high-beams, but for now, I have no issues.
Carstuff111 9 months ago
hey , i have a cheap ballast , can you tell me the wire code?
hhhh1997 10 months ago
All I can and should say is :
:D
yo6ial 11 months ago
where did you get the HID from
y2jpspmoney 1 year ago
Turning them on and off like that will F*** them up. lol
Good job bro
weso548 1 year ago
i wonder if u replace the H4 bulb with a 12v horn
khaled6100 1 year ago
sounds good idea ...how much time did they long ?
khaled6100 1 year ago
I have after market hid lights and the light is scattered. Any reason why? I checked the inside of my projector lenses, and it does have that metal shield just after the hid's that I thought was responsible for making the light shine straight from left to right. Instead its shining in the road and in other drivers eyes.
BlackCaScorpio 1 year ago
@BlackCaScorpio They are low quality chinese made kits that were not designed to work with your OEM reflector based headlights. The headlight housing is simply not made for it, so it generally results in a poor beam pattern and most of the light going into other drivers eyes. There is absolutely no way to fix this, without retrofitting a proper HID projector into your car.
ericspda 1 year ago
@ericspda that's the one thing that annoys me about hids... the majority of people, it seems, are either oblivious to or simply ignore the fact that if you're changing from a filament bulb to hids, you need to get the proper projector housing for them...
all those people that do that give the rest of us with proper kits a bad name...
MooMofo 11 months ago
LukeGeeeezy is a fucking Obama supporter
bangumbigass 1 year ago
It's more than possible that the arc produces high enough temperature for the xenon to actually glow... But... Since that isn't done by the tungsten don't expect it to last long... It's not problem for the transformer - ballast... since the load on it, is far less that it would be with unbroken filament... The ballast actually detects that the filament is broken and resets.... But generally a broken filament won't hurt the ballast.... ;-)
TrickyNekro 1 year ago
how can you even put regular bulbs into the ballast ? the normal bulbs doesn't have any wiring ?
ilovefullnelson 1 year ago
how can you even put regular bulbs into the ballast ? the normal bulbs doesn't have any wiring ?
ilovefullnelson 1 year ago
you should deff never do that again unless you want shards of glass in your eyes and skin. you fucking retard.. sunnyatscot is right.. you must be retarded or canadian.
LukeGeeeezy 1 year ago
@LukeGeeeezy You assume I was wearing no kind of eye protection. If you understand basic mechanics behind a halogen bulb, you would know the risk of this exploding is terribly low when handled correctly. If it exploded for other people, it was likely due to the oils from their skin being on the glass.
ericspda 1 year ago 7
@ericspda if you knew anything about halogen bulbs you would know that hooking up a halogen bulb to an HID ballast increases that risk of explosion by about 300%
LukeGeeeezy 1 year ago
@ericspda
You should have Body and Eye protection on... Along with the Bulb housed in some kind of enclosure box. You'r lucky it didn't explode. Not trying to be a jerk or anything but, man use your brain. That is OMG Dangerous!
417musick7 11 months ago
I spend much time and Money to see youtube in China, but can not see the vedios. How pity!
Judy from Xencon HID.
Judydeng 1 year ago
A friend and I tried that a while back... kind of worked. Then the bulb exploded. Sounded like a fire cracker. Good thing we had safety glasses on.
slamdvw 1 year ago
0:26 lol
thxango40 1 year ago
iilaw tlga yan kasi nasa dilim ka kaya maliwanag ang reflection nung bulb!
jhakE005 1 year ago
Won't that wreak your camera?
cowbellcowbell 1 year ago
The ballast was In start up mode, it was turning itself off. All that's going on here is arching inside a burnt out bulb with a broken filament.
ericspda 2 years ago
Stop turning it off. Let it keep running.
BenHutchinson1 2 years ago
@BenHutchinson1 let it keep running so it explodes? you should try doing it without safety glasses and put your face right next to it. fucking moron.
LukeGeeeezy 1 year ago
thats bright.
haydentube09 2 years ago
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DieselsAndDiodes 2 years ago
@
DieselsAndDiodes....you're a Chicken!!!
just kidding
chingly88 2 years ago
Interesting experiment, at least you got an other 16 seconds of extra light out of it.
Surprising that the lamp glass didn't melt.
5*****
RODALCO2007 2 years ago
(2nd fail) Aww...
(comes back on, silence)
WUT?!
TheGeek1028 2 years ago 4
haha, i was waiting for the bulb to explode!
karkraz 3 years ago 2
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hahahhaha. friends, its simply coloured with blue pen or something. look carefully..u can see smoke, because its burning ..
sahmanix 3 years ago
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@ shaminix
your are either stupid or canadian
sunnyatscot 2 years ago 7
lol
sahmanix 2 years ago 2
lol :)
sunnyatscot 2 years ago
@sunnyatscot Fuck you, retard
gailgrove 1 year ago
@sunnyatscot this comment must be from an ignorant american.
pearlxzildjian 11 months ago
@sunnyatscot What does Canadians have to do with anything? Most americans are dumbasses
errorserver3000 8 months ago 4
@errorserver3000 word
ayyjay69 5 months ago
can u hook up a halogen bulb to a regular battery?
matato007 3 years ago
I've done that before, it lights up as long as it's 12v, a 9V battery or set of 1.5V's will do the trick.
TheOriginalRootbrian 2 years ago
how did you connect the ballast to the bulb?
Da808Tabs 3 years ago
thats crazy.
phatchase 3 years ago
dont fry those nice toyota/lexus ballast in the background? ,use a cheap aftermarket ballast!
daewooparts 3 years ago
I did... ;)
ericspda 3 years ago
Yes. It's actually a Xenon-filled 9006 halogen lamp. I have attempted it before, but with homebuilt electronic ballast (to keep it lit continuously - with 1,100 volts continuous-lighting voltage after a nice burst o' juice of 10,000 volts ignition)
Well, not with bare bulb (I wouldn't attempt this, very bad idea.) I used a Xenon-filled sealed halogen lamp
DrMario2007baka 4 years ago
That sounds such a dissapointed little "ahhhhhhh" when the bulb failed - I was just suprised there was no "ooooh!" happy noise when it came on again :)
Quite impressive experiment you did. I might be tempted to have a play with mine now :)
guymark 4 years ago 2
That "ahhh" sounded like the Jerky Boys guy in the Painting call.
coastale 4 years ago 3
You're igniting the gas like a fluorescent bulb basically. I'm not sure if this may damage the ballast..but not a good idea to keep doing so.
rightwingzionist 4 years ago
It is designed to ionize the gas in a HID lamp, so it is a high voltage, high current power source. It will work with ANY discharge tube. It won't wreck the ballast, as it is designed for ionizing gasses.
BenHutchinson1 3 years ago