MAC TL

Are the stock low beam headlight HID ballast on a 04 TL 35watt or 55watt

Rnader

I could be wrong but I believe its 55w

timmahh

Meh dumb question.. but do HID ballasts have a wattage rating? There is no low/high beam bulb in the TL.. Fog light bulbs and the HID ballasts.

JnC

iTrader: (12)

Almost all stock HID ballasts send 35 watts to the bulb. Most of them can be modified to send more than that, here is a video made by AZDAVE (a fellow mod from HIDplanet) showing bosch boosted ballast. The OEM HID bulb can take as much as 75 watts worth of input, I dont recommend using boosted ballasts as running bulbs and ballasts at higher wattage generates a lot of heat and over time can damage the chrome reflective coating on the projector bowls.

Some of the new MB's come with variable output ballasts, in normal driving mode the ballasts send 35 watts to the bulbs but at highway speeds they increase wattage to 38 watts, doesnt seem much but you can see a bit further with that extra 3 watts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU7IbG6bwgk

JnC

iTrader: (12)

BTW Dave knows his LEDs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6sZg...layer_embedded

Tripnbeats

a few cars have variable shading in the projector as well, during the day its dimmer and they run as DRLs and at night no dimming and its at full brightness. quite a few cars are coming with "ECO-friendly" D4S bulbs now too from what ive noticed. Same wattage 35.

MAC TL

The reason i was asking is because i want to get 2 more sets one for stock fogs and another for accord fogs, and i wanted to make sure that they are all the same wattage so they all look the same including the stock lowbeams. So i was wondering if it would matter to get 35 watt or 55 watt for my other sets. I dont want different shades, i want them to all look alike.

Tripnbeats

usually the ones u get are 35watts no one really sells 55 unless its requested or mentioned.

nate_0022

iTrader: (2)

Dave does do some nice work. I was reading some of his work he was doing over at HIDplanet, very nice stuff.