HID retrofit for H4 bulb

HID retrofit for H4 bulb

Anybody had any experince with this gizmo ?

Supposedly it's an HID plugin with ballast
for older H4 lighting systems.

It was spoken well of by a rider on one list I
subscribe to, who said he'd been running one
about a year.

* cgi.ebay . com /ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110187443796

* tinyurl . com /2aedhy

I'm sort of mildly interested.

Thanks for any thoughts

Re: HID retrofit for H4 bulb

Rob Kleinschmidt <Rkleinsch1216128@aol . com > wrote in
news:1194464591.422656.231250@22g2000hsm.googlegroups . com :

> Anybody had any experince with this gizmo ?
>
> Supposedly it's an HID plugin with ballast
> for older H4 lighting systems.
>
> It was spoken well of by a rider on one list I
> subscribe to, who said he'd been running one
> about a year.
>
> * cgi.ebay . com /ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110187443
> 796
>
> * tinyurl . com /2aedhy
>
> I'm sort of mildly interested.
>
> Thanks for any thoughts
>

I just bought one from the Ebay seller Diane Shop. Frankly I'm amazed they
can make/sell these things for as little as they do. It cost me Euro 44.20
in total (including shipping). It appears to be a very well made bit of
kit. I have yet to fit it to my GSX-R750K7 but even if it's crap it isn't
that much more than two ordinary halogen light bulbs. I suppose this is
pretty good illustration of why manufacturing in the "western world" has
had its day.

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Re: HID retrofit for H4 bulb

On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:43:11 -0800, Rob Kleinschmidt
<Rkleinsch1216128@aol . com > wrote:

>Anybody had any experince with this gizmo ?
>
>Supposedly it's an HID plugin with ballast
>for older H4 lighting systems.
>
>It was spoken well of by a rider on one list I
>subscribe to, who said he'd been running one
>about a year.
>
> * cgi.ebay . com /ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110187443796
>
> * tinyurl . com /2aedhy
>
>I'm sort of mildly interested.
>
>Thanks for any thoughts


$35 shipping!? Hmmm.

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Re: HID retrofit for H4 bulb

Ken Long wrote:
> On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:43:11 -0800, Rob Kleinschmidt
> <Rkleinsch1216128@aol . com > wrote:
>
>> Anybody had any experince with this gizmo ?
>>
>> Supposedly it's an HID plugin with ballast
>> for older H4 lighting systems.
>>
>> It was spoken well of by a rider on one list I
>> subscribe to, who said he'd been running one
>> about a year.
>>
>> * cgi.ebay . com /ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110187443796
>>
>> * tinyurl . com /2aedhy
>>
>> I'm sort of mildly interested.
>>
>> Thanks for any thoughts
>
>
> $35 shipping!? Hmmm.

Well, that's nothing new on ebay. Avoids some of the percentage of
selling fees going to ebay by covering their cost with the shipping charges.

I think the way that one does the hi/lo switching is pretty neat. Most
of the ones I've seen only replace the lo, and use a standard element
for the hi-beam.

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Re: HID retrofit for H4 bulb

In rec.motorcycles.tech Rob Kleinschmidt <Rkleinsch1216128@aol . com > wrote:
> Anybody had any experince with this gizmo ?
>
> Supposedly it's an HID plugin with ballast
> for older H4 lighting systems.

I experimented with an HID retrofit, the report is here:
* w w w .zefox . net /~bob/mc/hid.html

It didn't work very well for my purposes, but those were mostly
very tight twisties. If you're riding straight-line roads or
empty Interstates, HID is definitely brighter and might be useful.

bob prohaska