Skip to contentled lightings china blog12 HEADLIGHT SYSTEMS IN TESTWith Lux-eyes through the nightTune with the season testing auto motor und sport the current state of lighting technology. Also present: twelve models and the whole program from low halogen headlamps to daylight-like all-LED system.Anyone who has ever switched from one car with good xenon or LED system to one with a simple halogen light, knows this feeling: it’s as if there in front instead of two light-strong spotlight burn two candles. Both the color and brightness and reach into off against modern headlights. No wonder Xenon systems are now to have been to small cars, while it already towards full LED goes into the upper class. But which technology is really worth it? Auto Motor und Sport has examined twelve systems Hella light and extensive comparison tests intensively.Halogen light dominates affordable price rangeIn the cheapest vehicles still dominate the halogen headlights. When DaciaSandero they are even without alternative. The technology is proven and inexpensive, send the headlights, the light either as the Dacia on reflectors or projection lenses on the road. In general, the light bulbs are easily replaceable, even against lighter retrofit lamps: auto motor und sport tests have shown that as those with a pair price of 30 Euro improve the performance of the headlamp noticeably. This did also the Dacia well: low and high beam light yellowish, patchy, streaky and short range – so gloomy, as if one would be broken by both.Xenon headlights with extra brightnessSignificantly better lighting models with xenon light the roadway. It is not produced like the halogen from a glowing filament, but in the burner of an electric arc between two electrodes.For ignition, a high voltage pulse of up to 25,000 volts is needed, then, the gas heats up in the piston, are to operating temperature and resistance reaches. To achieve full brightness takes several seconds.Simple versions like the Hyundaii40 combining a xenon bulb for low beam with a halogen spotlight for the main beam. The problem is the different light color and intensity, which would appear inharmonious placing the main beam of the Hyundai. His pure halogen counterpart therefore seems only marginally worse. When bi-xenon as the Fiat 500 has, is switched by means of a flap in the module between the operating modes. In addition, the offers Fiat still a halogen headlights for high beams. This seems a bit vorfeld stressed there is plenty of light in the area around 20 meters ahead of the car, but achieved a decent range.The low beam acts somewhat yellowish and streaked, with an on hilltops and in curves sometimes annoying hard bright-dark boundary. Basically, an automatic beam leveling and a headlamp cleaning system prescribed in the 35-watt Xenon systems to prevent blinding other.Despite fewer watts good coverage of the BeetleNot so with the 25-watt plant of VW Beetle. Meanwhile xenon burner developed 2,000 instead of 3