HID Lightforce Striker Upgrade

I think my Roo Lites are identical to the Lightforce. The job was easy.

Scotty,

H1, H3, H4, etc are different globe configurations. You will need to understand which configuration your lights have so that you can order the proper globe type (and I'm not at all sure that Lightforce follow these, anyway) but it would be a lot less difficult for forumites to explain the differences if you had pictures (I can't get them to work where I am at the moment).

H4 is the normal set-up for high/low beam headlight globes. My old Cibie Super Oscars used H1 globes (with quite a long overall length) and my Hella worklights use H3's, which are substantially shorter overall, even for the same wattage.

Perhaps you could simply try Google or Wikipedia - I'm sure there's going to be something there that will help you gain a better appreciation of the differences. Maybe "H1 Halogen globes" or "H3 Halogen globes" might be a starting point.

Otherwise, if you wander down to your local Repco/Supercheap/even fuel outlet, you may be able to see the differences in the flesh, so to speak.

Regards,

Charlie

Thanks Charlie, think they are H1....

In the Roo Lite, the original globe has a pop rivet which has to be drilled out. The HID replacement just drops in. I originally fitted H1s, but they were out of focus. Fitting H3's solved the problem.
HID kit

Bob

There are some kits that the base is part of the globe, these you will see have a large black plastic base and no aluminium adapter.

All kits are fully reversible but you need to drill the lightforce pop rivet out and remove the old lightforce globe holder.

We sell the adapters for $10ea and you need the adapter to hold the H3 globe in the correct position to focus the lamps.

We were concerned about heat and decided 50W is all that the 170's could safely handle, we did not want any customers having warranty issues with deformed reflectors from heat.

Regards

Derek