RE: IML: Better Bulbs?

[<DickB@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, dim tail and brake lights are very dangerous and getting even worse,
with all the new cars on the road, they all have superbly visible rear
lighting.   It is a real nightmare on my 47 Packard, with the tiny little 6
volt lights down by the bumper.  I've fitted 50 watt microscope bulbs (my
lenses are heavy glass), but it is little help.   I get really paranoid
driving at night in traffic.  During the day, I use the old hand signals,
which we were forced to learn back when I started to drive, in the early
50s.  I think most modern drivers don't know what I am doing when I stick my
arm out the window.

Dick Benjamin


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[mailto:mailing-list-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bob Schmitt
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 7:04 AM
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Subject: IML: Better Bulbs?

Dick -

Thanks for the detailed explanation and potential warning.  I think 
the taillight bulbs have good spacing from the lense on my '66, but 
will check this before any install.

Using these new bulbs on my other old car ('69 Alfa, if they fit) may 
be more important, as two drivers behind me have told  they didn't 
see my brake lights.  But they always check out OK, so something is "too
dim".

Bob

At 05:36 PM 2/18/2008, you wrote:
>Note that the P3496 is a conventional wire filament bulb, however, not an
>LED.   It is filled with Krypton gas, which produces a brighter light, so
it
>won't have the instant illumination feature of the LED type bulbs as used
in
>some new cars and most big trucks and emergency equipment built in the last
>few years.
>
>The P3496 uses the same amount of current as the 1157 on the brake and turn
>filament (27 watts each), but almost 3 times the current on the tail light
>filament, which could cause a heating problem in cars with plastic lenses,
>especially where the lenses are close to the bulb, because the tail lights
>are on continuously at night, the brake/turn filaments are only on for a
>short time.  The P3496 tail light filaments produce 8 watts of heat, the
>original bulbs (1157s) produced only 3 watts each.
>
>Dick Benjamin


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