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HID Lighting?

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JustinSB:
Dont take this the wrong way, I dont know what I'm really talking about here.

The coil is good for 35w right? The light is a 35w HID. So isn't 35w good for 35w?

And could I run the light off a battery which is constantly charging from the lighting coil?

I'm not trying to argue, just trying to make it work.

Goat:
The coil wouldn't produce enough power to run a light and charge at the same time. Also the coil produces 35w at high rpm so when slowing down, idling, ect it will not produce enough power to keep the light going. I would think in order to run a light and charge a battery you would need like a 60w or bigger coil. To run properly even at idle.

oic0:
Could you somehow regulate it to to some low amount and have it almost like trickle charging the battery to extend its life?

JustinSB:

--- Quote from: oic0 on June 05, 2010, 03:27:58 PM ---Could you somehow regulate it to to some low amount and have it almost like trickle charging the battery to extend its life?

--- End quote ---

Thats kind of what I was thinking. So you could run the light primarily off a battery, then trickle charge the battery to extend the battery life.

BDI:
The rule of thumb is what ever your light draws your coils peak out put has to be twice that just to run the light. And yes you also need to charge the battery. HID lights are either on or off,either you have enough power to run it or you don't. So what will happen is if the coil puts out a peak of 35w that will be at a very high RPM so anything under that high RPM the light will go off. Now if you are running a battery the light will not do that until the battery dies but because the coil does not put out enough power to run the light and charge the battery then the battery will start to discharge as soon as you turn the light on.

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