headlights, silverstars? Options

[Hanyo]

Anyone have any headlights better then silverstars?

I know silverstars give great white light but they super suck when it comes to life of the bulb.

I know people who change them yearly and it simply to expencive to do that, when a set of bulbs cost $50. A regular par of bulbs cost only 20 bucks.


So are there any aftermarket bulb makers that make clean white light as a fraction of that cost?

[Galcobar]

Sylvania Silverstars are not "white."

They're tinted blue. It's a lighter tint than what you'll typically find applied to the "HID-look" or "super white" bulbs which render them so low in light output that they're illegal. You can get that "nice white light" for cheap -- but you'll be getting ineffective headlights as a result.

Please don't mistake light output for colour. If one were to use a garden hose as a metaphor, mixing up light output and colour is akin to mixing up pressure and temperature.

Silverstars are ultra-high efficiency bulbs, which produce 50% more usable light than a standard halogen. This does come at a cost of life. The standard halogen has an expected life of 800 hours while high-efficiency bulbs run an expected 150 hours. Osram (Sylvania's parent company) Silverstars are untinted and meet that 50% additional light point; Sylvania Silverstars only produce 10% more light than a standard halogen due to the blue tint.