Shop owners, how do you really rate the Xenon lamps – over brightness or ballast life?
For 9 years now I’ve owned a small auto-lighting shop, and seen Xenon grow from rich kid toy to legit upgrade for the night owls. You save your bucks on the ballast, not the bulb, if you want to keep it flickering like a rave. My sweet spot has been with 5000K, pure white, not the blue ricer vibe. I’ve seen on Youtube where guys throw the Xenon in as fogs on some of those off road rigs for exiting crazy spread on the trail. But daily driver? Heat management is everything. With my in house repairs I have had good luck for reliable ballasts from Alibad, and they’re a solid value when you know what you’re getting. Here’s my headache though: more customers want the adaptive xenon that swivel with the steering input. Retrofitting into old housings sometimes that cut off can be beautiful, but sometimes it blinds minivans. What’s your secret in lined the projector lenses without breaking the bank? And has anyone figured out the too slow to warm up in freezing temps, without messing with LED? Let’s swap field notes.