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- From: simnet@ssc-vax.boeing.com (Mark R Poulson)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: wattage
- Summary: Now for the real answer...
- Message-ID: <5443@ssc-bee.ssc-vax.boeing.com>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 17:27:30 GMT
- References: <kelley.713508186@cwis> <1992Aug11.154208.15915@ncar.ucar.edu>
- Organization: Boeing Defense and Space Group, Seattle WA
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- In article <1992Aug11.154208.15915@ncar.ucar.edu>, cbh@windsurf.scd.ucar.edu (Cris Hannu) writes:
- > In article <kelley.713508186@cwis>, kelley@cwis.unomaha.edu (Sean Kelley) writes:
- > > okay, here is what i think to be a stupic question...but I need an
- > > answer...i was in an auto part store looking for driving lights...and I
- > > saw that they sold different wattage bulbs for the lights..all I need to
- > > know, what is the wattage of a normal hallogen head light...that way I
- > > know what driving lights to get...
- > >
- > 55 watts is the *legal* maximum for street use.
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- Correct answer, but this is not the question that Sean asked.
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- Old car headlights are 55 watts, the halogen ones are 35 watts. Both produce
- roughly the same amount of light, although the halogen lamp produces whiter
- light. Any law that regulates light output by wattage is simply stupid.
-
- Mark
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