Had GE sealed beam halogens on my '85 CRX and the light they gave off was
pitiful. They also seemed to burn out every second month. Replaced them
with a set of Cibies which turned up the wick considerably. They could
still be overdriven on lo beam because they were the small, rectangular,
single bulb type, but much better on hi beam.
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On Tue, 28 Nov 1995 BLECKSTEIN@SHELL.MONMOUTH.COM wrote:
> In the early eighties I upgraded my 70BGT with whatI thought were halogens.
>GE
> made a product that was a sealed beam halogen. It said halogen on them. Would
>GE
> lie? Anyway the first time I took the car through New Jersey inspection the
>car
> flunked because of the headlights. A few years later they became legal in New
> Jersey for any car. They are on the car now! I suspect that the regulation
>was
> based on the "unsealed Theory" as Denise stated, and the beaurocrats
>considered
> all halogens illegal even if the reason for the ban had been overcome by GE.
>I
> don't think these lights are the equal to legal modern lights ( now unsealed
> units) but they were a lot brighter than the original non halogens.
>
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