hey guys i was at my local auto barn and they told me about some new H.O.D lights, does anyone know anything about them??

Just looking now, it seems they are the same Halogen Bulbs, but have a Xenon light within also, more brighter then Halogen Bulbs, but less Brighter then HID's

Evo

lol i read the packet n it said High Output Display, they told me that they were better then HID n they didnt take much 2 put in jus plug into ur old wiring n thats it

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H.O.D

Abbreviation: Round Shape Bulb
English Name: High Definition Olive Lamp (H.O.D)
H.O.D is the new generation of auto-lighting products developed by our company. We have successfully brought the breakthrough to its appearance, manufacturing craft and performance.
H.O.D Function: Automotives Front-Lighting
H.O.D Performance and Characteristics:
　　H. O.D shape body is much bigger than the cylindrical shape of Halogen lamp, which better meets the circulation need to develop high color temperature and hard light. Besides, H.O.D owns super penetration ability with full-day lighting that can provide a better vision effect no matter in rainy or snowy days, day time or night time. H.O.D is a kind of Olive shape lamp, which matches the traditional characteristics of lamps. It greatly improves the condensation illumination.
In comparison with Halogen lamps: lumen, color temperature and life cycle is much higher.
In comparison with HID:
1、Better convergence effect, wide illumination range, above 80M for H.O.D
2、 After installation, drivers can have more clear vision with better lighting effect. H.O.D not only promises good vision for drivers coming from opposite directions, but also fits the safety requirements on road. While the adapted HID is with high color temperature, but also with low lumen, worse convergence effect and coloration. Its lighting affects the vision for drivers coming from opposite directions, hence contributes to bad line of vision which does not fit safety requirements on road.
3、Installation is the same simple and convenient as Halogen while illumination is better than HID and Halogen.

Evo

I have my doubts about those bulbs. I personally would choose HID over them mainly because the two are completely different in terms of technology involved. The HID gives off a more clean and pure light as well.

Those HOD bulbs (seems like a stupid name to me) look very similar to a well tested halogen bulb design known as HIR. These new HOD bulbs are quite questionable about their performance (need to test one first I reckon) compared to the HIR bulb, which is a GE design and actually does work. The high beams on my Aurion use those bulbs (comes standard with them), and I find they are much brighter than normal halogen bulbs of the same wattage.

Some more reading on HIR bulbs:

http://hirheadlights.com/

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It was GE's goal to create a bulb that produced 75% of the light output of HID headlights at 25% of the cost. GE sells HIR bulbs for residential lighting and specialized projectors, but decided to stay out of the automotive market and licensed this technology to a division of Toshiba. In fact, Toshiba and GE are among the few companies in the world with the expertise to engineer and build this product. These bulbs attain light levels 75% to 110% brighter than stock as a result of an engineering process that deposits multiple, yet almost invisible, layers of semi-reflective coating on the surface of a specially shaped quartz bulb. This coating ( a titania/silica, zinc oxide/silica, zirconia/silica, silicon nitride/silica, and titania/magnesium fluoride tantalam/silica multi-layer dielectric, according to the patent) reflects a portion of the infrared energy emitted by the filament back onto the filament, causing it to glow brighter and emit more light from the uncoated forward portion of the bulb. Although the filament gets hotter, the glass does not. IT GENERATES NO MORE HEAT THAN A REGULAR HALOGEN BULB, AND IT DRAWS THE SAME WATTAGE AND AMPERAGE AS THE STOCK 9006 BULB IT REPLACES

I personally would stay away from the HOD bulbs. It seems like they are cheap Asian made bulbs and Autobarn is trying to talk it up.

Sounds the goods for replacing the poxy globes in my Rolla and 380 without retro fitting a HID projector kit

only HIR globes I can find are from ///IPF and they are only H4 so my corolla misses out but they are over 100 smackers landed as I have only being able to find them OS

Has anyone used these HOD bulbs before and can report on the quality? thinking of getting these as an alternative to HID

I wouldn't bother mate. Either stick to your normal bulbs or get HID's.

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wat the hell is Daryl doing 6am in the morning on a Sunday!

will do daryl, advice taken.