Wombat
08-29-2009, 10:15 AM
Want to get great illumination without extra heat, wiring upgrades, relays, transformers, and blue tint? Want to SEE better at night instead of HEARING a bunch of dubious chatter about xenon-filled, over-wattage, blue-tinted bling-bling bulbs that are supposedly "just like HIDs"? Want a bulb where you could create a simple swap or H4/H7 socket and maintain the correct filament placement for a perfect light pattern, instead of causing glare and scattered, diffused light? Want to save hundreds of dollars over the cost of retrofitting an illegal, bootleg HID system? Then you want these Halogen Infrared Reflecting bulbs.
These Toshiba bulbs are a unique product, the only bulbs available that use the research technology that General Electric patented in 2000 (patent number 6,087,775). It was GE's goal to create a bulb that produced 75% of the light output of HID headlights at 25% of the cost. GE sells HIR bulbs for residential lighting and specialized projectors, but decided to stay out of the automotive market and licensed this technology to a division of Toshiba. In fact, Toshiba and GE are among the few companies in the world with the expertise to engineer and build this product. These bulbs attain light levels 75% to 110% brighter than stock as a result of an engineering process that deposits multiple, yet almost invisible, layers of semi-reflective coating on the surface of a specially shaped quartz bulb. This coating ( a titania/silica, zinc oxide/silica, zirconia/silica, silicon nitride/silica, and titania/magnesium fluoride tantalam/silica multi-layer dielectric, according to the patent) reflects a portion of the infrared energy emitted by the filament back onto the filament, causing it to glow brighter and emit more light from the uncoated forward portion of the bulb. Although the filament gets hotter, the glass does not. IT GENERATES NO MORE HEAT THAN A REGULAR HALOGEN BULB, AND IT DRAWS THE SAME WATTAGE AND AMPERAGE AS THE STOCK BULB IT REPLACES
The technology used in the HIR bulb is called Halogen Infrared Reflecting and is relatively new.
Rather than having a tubular shape, the HIR bulb has a unique spherical shape, centered around the filament. There is a faint iridescent coating applied to the inside of the bulb glass. This microns-thin film is the key to the bulb's light output. The film reflects a portion of the infrared light back at the filament, causing it (the filament, not the glass housing) to become hotter and, therefore, burn brighter without shortening the bulb's life.
The result, then, is a brighter light without shorter life or incompatibility with stock wiring. The beam pattern of your headlights will not change, but there will be considerably more light within the pattern.
From what other guys have being saying they look the goods with a probably 30% less intensity than HID
///IPF are the makers and are available at a 4wd/SUV accessories store and the model is X4 they only come in H4 fitting
These Toshiba bulbs are a unique product, the only bulbs available that use the research technology that General Electric patented in 2000 (patent number 6,087,775). It was GE's goal to create a bulb that produced 75% of the light output of HID headlights at 25% of the cost. GE sells HIR bulbs for residential lighting and specialized projectors, but decided to stay out of the automotive market and licensed this technology to a division of Toshiba. In fact, Toshiba and GE are among the few companies in the world with the expertise to engineer and build this product. These bulbs attain light levels 75% to 110% brighter than stock as a result of an engineering process that deposits multiple, yet almost invisible, layers of semi-reflective coating on the surface of a specially shaped quartz bulb. This coating ( a titania/silica, zinc oxide/silica, zirconia/silica, silicon nitride/silica, and titania/magnesium fluoride tantalam/silica multi-layer dielectric, according to the patent) reflects a portion of the infrared energy emitted by the filament back onto the filament, causing it to glow brighter and emit more light from the uncoated forward portion of the bulb. Although the filament gets hotter, the glass does not. IT GENERATES NO MORE HEAT THAN A REGULAR HALOGEN BULB, AND IT DRAWS THE SAME WATTAGE AND AMPERAGE AS THE STOCK BULB IT REPLACES
The technology used in the HIR bulb is called Halogen Infrared Reflecting and is relatively new.
Rather than having a tubular shape, the HIR bulb has a unique spherical shape, centered around the filament. There is a faint iridescent coating applied to the inside of the bulb glass. This microns-thin film is the key to the bulb's light output. The film reflects a portion of the infrared light back at the filament, causing it (the filament, not the glass housing) to become hotter and, therefore, burn brighter without shortening the bulb's life.
The result, then, is a brighter light without shorter life or incompatibility with stock wiring. The beam pattern of your headlights will not change, but there will be considerably more light within the pattern.
From what other guys have being saying they look the goods with a probably 30% less intensity than HID
///IPF are the makers and are available at a 4wd/SUV accessories store and the model is X4 they only come in H4 fitting