Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Light Bulbs, Part 2

In January, I had to replace the halogen light bulbs on one of my vehicles. I opted for the whiter, higher Kelvin pair after reading the packaging and thinking that they would be noticeably brighter. Not that a 100K increase in whiteness would be all that great, but that packaging indicated that they would be 25-30% brighter. Turns out, they measure brightness against a worn out bulb, not a brand new one, so the increase in brightness is slight.

However, I just learned that the lifetime of the higher K bulbs in considerably shorter: Both bulbs are now burned out, after just 6 months!

Guess I'm going back to OEM - at least they last a few years!

What a racket.

No comments:

Post a Comment