I live in northern Wisconsin, where the forests and deer rule and people are in the minority. When it gets dark here the Milky Way stands out across the entire sky. That means it's dark. The stock headlights are non-halogen and even then are somewhat weaker than regular civilian headlights that are non-halogen. A call to GE, original headlight maker, found 11,000 candlepower on our lights and normal civilian headlights in non-halogen to be 13,000-15,000 cp. I, as usual, wanted more. One year at the Oshkosh Airshow, the largest civilian airshow in the world, I met a Hella dealer. I told him what I had and that I would like to get Halogens that were 24 volt and round for a 2 headlight setup. He pulled out some lights and proceeded to blind me in a second or two. The lights are great, they light up the road and both ditches on low beam but do not blind oncoming drivers as the only put light out through the bottom of the lens on low beam. This means when adjusted there is a line, quite a ways out, where your lights stop. So when your following someone, you don't shine lights in their rear view mirror until you are VERY close, but they shine as far or farther than car halogens and staying down on the road this way, Hella says, makes them like a fog/driving light. On high beam you can light up the world!!!! These babies are unreal on high, lighting reflectors at a mile and a half plus. They are also very wide on high to cover both ditches and some room beyond that. They use a seperate bulb from the housing and the bulb is available in 12 or 24 volt. I highly recommend them as primary headlights for off road as they cover the area you're in and show off the sides in case you need to turn to avoid something. To hook them up, I simply cut the wires going to the stock headlight far enough back so they could be spliced back on if needed or wanted by me or someone else. Hella sells a $5 connector that plugs on the back of the bulb and has holes for your wires to go in, where they are held by a spring loaded button. No problem to hook up and never come loose. They fit the stock hole and trim ring perfectly. They have a pretty flat lens on them so in winter, snow/ice doesn't want to stick. They also are hot, if you hold your hand in front of it a few inches away and someone turns them on, your hand will know the instant they do. They never have had ice build up, but are not so hot as to burn you. The housing and bulbs with the connectors was around $125, 2 years ago, and then you only need bulbs for about $20 instead of the hole deal again. In 12 volt the bulbs are $12 I think.
The housing part number is 79562 and the 24 volt bulb is number 64196. They are rated at 70 watts low beam and 75 watts high. It seems like daylight in front of you compared to a flashlight with batteries that are going weak, which is how the stock lights look in comparison. Now if I can only wire up those 250W aircraft landing lights to a light
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