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Originally Posted by Dave-ROR
That, like his post, is completely wrong. There are two standard automotive HID bulb types, S and R (D1S/D1R/D2S/D2R/D4S at least as different models of those types). Would you like to guess why the R is called a D1R/D2R? It's for relfector housings.
This is a D2R bulb (assuming the site it's hosting on allows linking):
Some older Acuras, Mercedes, Nissans, etc used them. Almost everyone uses projectors now as they are far superior but reflector based HIDs absolutely exist. |
Noted, but other than that...what else about my post is wrong...in my industry we never use reflector optics in HID fixtures. You must be very well versed in optics...please enlighten me...me a humble lowly lighting technician who works on this crap for a living can't possibly know as much as you do...or so you make it seem. So you caught me on one small area of automotive lighting that I was not aware of...pardon me.
The D2R was offered as a replacement on my Tacoma...I forgot about that...it's use however removed all High Beam abilities unless you bought it with a motorized Bi-Xenon kit and special shroud that it mounted in.
The rest of my post however was still correct...HID's cannot be restruck while hot without special expensive ballasts, and most OEM HID's are ether motorized for high or low beam effects in some way or paired with a high wattage halogen in a separate housing.