Narva 225 HID

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Has anyone used or seen in use a pair of Narva 225 HID's 35 or 50 watt?

I am considering a pair of pencil beam lights when the bull bar goes on.

Narva claim a distance of something like 1400m @ 1 Lux...Just wondering if anyone thinks that is or could be factual?

[Pugaree Member Find all posts View Profile Close Pugaree]

I ran Narva 225's with a D2 HID conversion kit, this is better than what Narva produce. They were pretty damn good or so I thought until I did the HID conversion on the high beam.

The reflectors work so well and spread so much usable light, I ended taking the Narvas off as they really didn't make that much difference. An added bonus was the truck ran a few degrees cooler too according to the scan gauge.

I have since added a Stedi lightbar to provide a bit more fill, has a low profile so doesn't affect airflow (as much) and the spot/spread combo is very very good.

I was doing a lot of night driving to Adelaide and back (from Canberra) on weekends so had the opportunity to try quite a few different combos, the distance down the road isn't as important as the spread either side and the immediate 300-400 metres in front.

The only real problem I have now is when I dip the lights, the low beam looks like a few candles have been lit and it takes a little time for the eyes to adjust.

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I't might be factual but is it useful??

Where do you drive that you can regularly run your lights out to over 1km and not have signs, posts and of course other traffic on the road. You'd have to dip your lights over 1km before the other car passes and how fast do you travel to need that sort of distance?

I can see why light bars & LED driving lights sales are smashing HID, a good all rounder in LED is more usefull for most that a pencil beam HID.