headlight relaying tech article

[treed2 at wsu.edu (T. Reed)]

On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, L F wrote:

> The aiming is different for each filament.
> You haven't noticed??
> :)
>
> Larry

Whew, guess not!

I mean.. "low beam", "high beam" ... duh!

But I was thinking it took an entirely different glass housing to point
the beam in a different direction.

The two filaments are offset.. but by no more than a centimeter. It's
hard to believe it makes that much of an aiming difference.. but
apparently it does! This crazy world..

Thx to Peter + Larry for the responses..

-Toby

>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: T. Reed
>   To: Matthew_Russell@ziba.com
>   Cc: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>   Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 4:29 PM
>   Subject: Re: headlight relaying tech article
>
>
>   Speaking of this..
>
>   Does anybody know why they bothered putting two filaments in the low beam
>   bulbs ?
>
>   I mean, with stock bulbs.. 55/60.. there's only a 5 watt difference. It
>   can't be that-much-brighter?!!
>
>   -Toby
>
>   On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 Matthew_Russell@ziba.com wrote:
>
>   > I found somewhere an article that described how to relay your headlights
>   > so that you have all four laps lit when highbeams are on, does anyone know
>   > the where abouts of this article? I seem to have lost my way and I would
>   > like to make that mod.
>   >
>   > TIA
>   >
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