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Old 12-12-2009, 04:58 PM   #17 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by smokeyj View Post
Of corse you are!
HID is an entirely different technology from Halogen, and it is far more efficient at converting electrical energy to light.

As to efficiency bump. There should be some, 40W less electrical load give maybe 60W less mechanical load which is a little less than 1/10 hp.
If you are driving a smallish car cruise velocity is maybe 15hp so you are looking at about a 0.7% load drop. Or should see that much increase in FE.
I should have specified, I was only talking about the halogens.
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