Wednesday, November 24, 2010

What is Xenon?


It is known that more than half of accidents on the roads due to poor visibility. That's why quality lighting is one of the most important factors on the road to ensure safety and comfort.

How to achieve this increase in brightness? One possible option - to put additional or more powerful lights. Give it to us more light? Certainly willing, but it still gives an extra load on the generator due to greater consumption of electricity.


And, you can put a metal halide discharge (HID-Lamp), or, as they are called in the people - xenon light, which is 2-3 times brighter than a conventional halogen lamp, and power consumption almost in half below. The driver, using xenon in his car at night driving sees more clearly the details of the road, pedestrians, cyclists, counting on the roads, so, manages to keep up with the situation if necessary. The car, in turn, becomes more economical, by reducing the load on the generator, which in turn lowers fuel consumption.


What is a Xenon lamp? This lamp is composed of the bulb encasing a capsule with two electrodes, filled with xenon (an inert gas) with the addition of mercury salts. To get light, uses an electric charge of high intensity. First, the lamp is supplied a charge capacity of 25,000 volts to arc inside the lamp appeared. After the appearance of the lamp arc, is supply voltage of 80 volts.


Safety, comfort and prestige of xenon proved in theory and in practice, and it certainly makes him a leader in lighting technology on the roads.

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