HID Xenon vs Halogen

Halogen

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HID Xenon Patiala
 app. 65 m away

The 15° rise in cut-off to the right- hand curb (right-hand

traffic) guarantees good illumination of the driver’s own side
of the road and early recognition of pedestrians, traffic signs
and cyclists. Dr. Devender Kumar, MED, Thapar
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 Light distribution on road

Bending Light High Beam

(Adverse Weather Light)
Motorway Light
Town Light Country Light

(Front Fog Light)

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 Recent development in lighting
2003: Audi A8 with adaptive light
2004: Audi A8 W12 with LED daytime running lights
2008: Audi R8 with all‐LED headlights
2010: Audi A8 in which the headlights are networked
with the navigation data
2012: Audi R8 with dynamic turn signal lights
2013: Audi A8 with Matrix LED headlights
2014: Audi R8 LMX with LaserSpot for the high‐beam
lamps

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 LED

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Advantages over Halogen
• Nearly maintenance free
• Very less energy consumption
• Can produce accurate light
colour
• Greater design flexibility
• Less heat generation during
operation
• Lesser load on electrical system
• More brightness per wattage
• Longer operation life.
Standard concept of LED headlamp
Disadvantages
• High initial cost
• Need special circuitry and design
• Cannot be replaced by any available LED fitment.
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Matrix LED

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• It’s the first electronically controlled
glare free high-beam system in the world

• The system can mask out up to 8

different cars at one time, using 25
individually controlled segments per
headlight allowing for
966,105,422 different variations
in light distribution.
• An ultra light sensitive camera detects light sources from oncoming vehicles
and masks out the high beam light distribution around them in real time.

• The small light-emitting diodes, which work in conjunction with lenses and reflectors
connected in series, are activated and deactivated or dimmed individually according
to the situation. This enables the system to react precisely to other cars, which it
recognizes using a camera, and always illuminate the road brightly.
• Additional features of the new headlights are the intelligent cornering light, new-
look daytime running lights and dynamic turn signals. The Audi Matrix LED
headlights get the information they need from a camera, the navigation system and
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Bright marking for pedestrians/animals

Detect human/animals located dangerously close to or on the road

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LED & LASER

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LED & LASER

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LED & LASER

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LED lights have about 20,000 hours of life.
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 300m 600m

LED high-beam combined with the laser-

LED low-beam LED high-beam
based spot (laser booster)
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 Daytime running lamps (DRL)

Corona rings

All late-model Canadian vehicles and many domestic vehicles are equipped with daytime
running lamps (DRL) which are operated using high-beam or low-beam headlight system at a
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reduced intensity by a mechanism of headlight
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 Different
concepts of
DRL

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Headlamp Leveling System

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• Manual Vertical Aim Control
• This type of VAC is required for
Halogen headlamps.
• The driver uses a rotary or slide
switch to adjust the headlamps
according to the tilt of the vehicle.
• For manual leveling, electric
motors used as actuators.
• Hydro mechanical system, Vacuum
System or electric System

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Manual Leveling

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 Automatic leveling
Headlamp leveling System
• Automatic Vertical Aim Control

• This type of VAC is required for Xenon headlamps.

• Designed for compensate for load variation by lowering or rising the
low beam position.
• Changes in the vehicle´s tilt by accelerating or decelerating can be
compensated with a dynamic vertical aim control

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Automatic leveling

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