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Old 10-21-2005, 08:31 PM
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what is the difference between xenon and bi-xenon?
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Default Bi-xenon is low beam and high beam in one projector.
There is a motor that move the bulb position (or teh cutoff plate) to create low beam and high beam pattern
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ah, makes sense
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Default Doesn't the Bi-xenon housing have 2 projectors? The one I saw did
which means both the high and low beams were xenon but not in one projector.
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Default the reason is that there is a turn on time -therefore you can not go to brights quick enough -like
you can with incandescences
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My Lexus Xenon takes a sec to come on
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