Daytime Light Relay

August 2009 Randy's Electrical Corner

I have been wealthy on about how much better HID (High Intensity Discharge) lightsare for your Jeeps all this while and it's occurred to me some of you might not know how they work. Heck, some of you younger guys conceivable take the existence of HIDs in automobiles for granted.

Turn back the clock even exactly 15 years, and there were no vehicles with HID lighting. HID lighting was something found only in football stadiums and arenas. You see, even back then, we knew how the daytime-like color and energy of the light was beneficial to reduce eye fatigue and to help our eyes (which travail best with daylight-colored light) see what was going on better.

We knew the benefits, we absolutely had the technology to build HIDs, but the problem was that we didn't have the technology to arrive at it small enough to fit in a motor vehicle. Heck, the first time I saw an aftermarket HID kit, the kit itself set someone back $3,000 and the ballasts were 12x4x4 inches (each) and weighed a ton. Nowadays, all the HID-mutual technology fits inside a KC-Daylighter sized light, and while some of us take it for granted, I still find it astonishing that they can shrink down a football stadium light that costs thousands of dollars and fit it into a 6-inch light you shoot off to your bumper and costs only a couple of hundred dollars.

Source: JP Magazine

See Also

• Bumpers
• Door Handle
• Fog Lights
• Fenders
• Grilles
• Headlights
• Hoods
• Mirrors
• Tail Lights
• Turn Signals
• Tailgates
• Wheels
• Windows
• Weatherstripping
• Trunks