Not to beat a dead horse but the yellow lenses are also clear. As I used to
tell my students clear means you can see through it, the opposite of opaque.
To illustrate much stained glass is clear, but little of it is white - or
yellow for that matter. All driving an fog lenses are clear. They may also be
yellow or colorless.
Just had to get it off my chest
Keith
---- Oudesluys <coudesluijs at chello.nl> wrote:
> To thicken the fog, fog and spot lights can both be yellow and clear
> (white if you like). If you have clear lenses you can also have yellow
> bulbs as was mandatory in France not even to long ago. They were of a
> lower wattage I believe. Lucas spot lights can usually be converted to
> fog lights and the other way around by changing the lenses. As Jack
> pointed out the spot lights have mainly plain unprofiled lenses with a
> parabolic reflector to direct the light straight ahead while fog lights
> have a profiled/ribbed lens to direct the light at a wide angle just in
> front of the car with a sharp, low cut off as not to direct light
> upwards because that will blind you in thick fog.
>
> Modern (fog, spot, head) lights have all clear lenses as all focussing
> is done by the computer designed reflector.
> Discharge lights are a different breed altogether.
> Kees Oudesluijs
> NL
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