SIR-VRX wrote:You didn't have them on the other day when I saw you at Morayfield
No.... I currently have a bulb 'blown' - so I think it looks lame when there is only half a wanker option to be seen with.....
Serves me right for getting some cheap bulbs from an American site. They have changed their supplier from the ones I bought previously, and these where just crapola....
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@ ANDROS - Interesting find... I would have said they were legal bulbs. I think the big point to note however is the colour temp. - Being at only 4300k, highly unlikely you will get pulled up for them....
Might have to re-think my replacements having trawlled thru this....
Found this -
ADR 51 Documentation
A boring read, to be sure... There is only one reference to a colour temperature output....
3.6. Colour
3.6.1. The bulb of the filament lamp shall be colourless,
5/ unless otherwise prescribed on the relevant data sheet
Where...
5/ A bulb is considered to be colourless if it does not appreciably alter the trichromatic coordinates of a luminous source having a colour temperature of 2,856K
- Which pretty much rules out any installed headlight bulb, in any car imo
It mentions 'white' light many times, and denotes this to be the correct ourput, but realsitically, anything below 3500K is more towards cream/yellow than white will ever be.... so who knows
"The colour of the light emitted by the filament lamp shall be white unless otherwise specified on the relevant data sheet."
Two lines are repeated several times over thru the document...
- "The bulb shall be colourless or yellow." - So does that mean we can go all 'Continental' have have yellow headlights, like in France??
- "The colour should be so homogeneous that at visual inspection no essential differences are perceptible." - This last one is what a copper might have a go at... They'll look into the headlight and see a 'blue' bulb - Even though it is just a colour correction filter being applied to make the cream/yellow light output more towards the 'white' part of the spectrum....
And the debate drags on... lol