Headlights are used as soon as the sky begins to go a dull colour and as the sky grows darker the light emitted grows more pronounced helping us see. However, this light is narrow and often short range. Many motorists do not realise they can increase their sight with the use of xenon bulbs over halogen lights. In fact these bulbs offer up to 90% more light than halogen. They also do not need modifications for fitting them in your vehicle.
Headlight Bulbs – A Very Brief History!
To understand how xenon bulbs can improve the light output from your headlights, it is probably a good idea to see how the bulbs have developed, but don’t worry the history is very brief. The first headlight bulbs were very basic affairs using incandescent lights until, in the 1960s, car bulb manufacturers introduced the first halogen bulb, which was called the H1.
In making the glass bulb airtight and filling it with a halogen gas mixture these early halogen headlight bulbs could burn much brighter. In order to improve their headlight bulbs further, the manufacturers also worked on redesigning the filament, which is the metal wire coil you see in the centre of a bulb, therefore creating a more intense beam which created a light that could project much further out than ordinary incandescent bulbs.