RE: IML: Better Bulbs?

[Christopher H <imperial67@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The only thing most drivers today know when you use a hand signal is that the window is open...

Chris in LA

-----Original Message-----
>From: DickB@xxxxxxxxx
>Sent: Feb 19, 2008 10:21 AM
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>Subject: RE: IML: Better Bulbs?
>
>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
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
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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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