Friday, July 17, 2009

Regular Headlights vs Projector Headlights

Many people have asked the difference between regular traditional headlights and modern high technology projector headlights. There are huge differences between the two types of headlights.

First of all, there are three different types of auto headlights in the market. They are the regular halogen reflector, halogen HID type, and projector HID type headlights. They are sorted from the most traditional to the most modern advanced.

Halogen headlights are the most traditional and popularly used on the road today. One of the disadvantage of reflector headlights that it is easy to blind on-coming traffic because its light beam are not concentrated / focused, which caused the lights to glare.

Selection of Crystal Headlights can be found here.

Projector headlights are the moderm, more advanced headlights. You will find more European cars are equipped with projector headlights. Projector optics emit the light through a much smaller area than reflector optics do; therefore, for the same total light output, the light spot of a projector headlamp is much more intense and more dazzling than the larger, dimmer light spot of a reflector lamp.

There are also aftermarket produced projector headlights for older model vehicle too. Some include fancy angel eye (Halo Ring). Which copy the style of BMW advanced Bi-Xenon projector headlights. These halo projector headlights become more popular and their quality is being increased over time.
Selection of aftermarket projector headlights can be found here

1 comment:

  1. Two of my co workers were just having this conversation about regular headlights vs projector headlights. I think they both have their positives and negatives, but I think I would lean towards projector aftermarket headlights. Thank you for sharing this with us.

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