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rodekyll:
DDM Tuning sent me an email offering 20% off their most skookum HID projectors and 10% off their super-skookum, fast-warmup-fry-you-a-moose-at-a-mile-lifetime-warranty elements.  So I threw the switch on two complete setups (less ballasts because I have them already) for $85.  I got some other stuff too, and with shipping and the other stuff paid $102.  These are bare fixtures -- no enclosure or mount aside from standard H4 and H7 fixture plates.  By comparison, the single drop-in H4 35w LED headlight/reflector I got from Truk-lite was $165. 

These are 2.5" hi/lo projectors, which use a solenoid-controlled mask in front of the element to cut the light instead of trying to manipulate the bulb itself.  They have an overall size of about 3.5"x 4" by 5.5" and weigh about the same as an oem EV lens, reflector and bulb -- much lighter than I expected when I first handled one.  The H1-style HID element adds some length, but it would still almost fit in an old loop headlight bucket.  It would for sure if you nipped a hole in the back.  I plan to mount them somewhere around the valve covers (with a nod to interference from the forks) in the trike fairing I'm still designing.  I don't know if I'll retain a center headlight or not. 

The bulbs work on either 35w or 55w ballasts, offering ~ 3x the useable light as 55w halogen in 35w and another 50% in 55w.  I have both sizes already being plumbed in to my wiring harness, so I can decide how much oompah I want to treat oncoming traffic to.

The housings are using some advanced coatings on the reflector and new technologies in the lens materials and design/mfgr as well as more temperature resistant plastics than a lot of oem stuff.  They've tested for 20% more light over audi and bmw projectors, using the same bulbs.  So I'm excited.  I'm willing to design the fairing around them if they'll let me own the night.  If not, they were cheap enough that I can stuff them into old m/c buckets and use them on the boat.

oldbike54:
 Knowing others lighting is wisdom , knowing one's own lighting is enlightenment . With apologies to Lao Tzu  ;D

  Dusty

Wayne Orwig:
Have you fired them up yet to see what the turn on time is like?
I guess it doesn't matter much since they are hi/low, so they can just stay on.

charlie b:
PICTURES!  :)

Would also like to see the actual current draw, esp for the 35W version.

rodekyll:
They have not arrived yet.  I can't wait.

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