Silverstars > *

[Jorge18]

I bought some Silverstars today at Discount Auto Parts, and they are HOT!! You guys should check them out...They have them on sale, buy one get one half off. The total came out to 31 bucks...

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[evolvd_talon]

I have silverstars in the low beams of my 1g, i love them, the only thing i can think of thats better is an HID conversion

 

[sjwelna]

I have silverstar low beams and fogs. People flash their brights at me all the time because they're so bright. I love 'em.

-Steve

 

[AdoreGSX]

anyone got the silverstar highs? how are they?
where do you live in nc?

 

[DSMRevolution]

I was not too impressed with the Silverstars. I converted my wiring for my headlights to handle just over 200 watts (low beam side, high beam left factory) and before using the Silverstars I was using some bulbs I ordered from ProCarParts (I can get the exact numbers if you want them). These bulbs were high beam bulbs and needed some slight modifications to fit properly. Well, after one of them burning out I switched to Silverstars. Light output was not as "hot". I switched back to the ProCarPart bulbs shortly after compairing the Silverstars to OEM bulbs. They were much nicer then the factory Silvania bulbs though!

 

[Defiant]

I do it too, but how do we get away with running 200 watts of lights off a 70 amp (or whatever) alternator?

 

[Slipstream]

I do it too, but how do we get away with running 200 watts of lights off a 70 amp (or whatever) alternator?

Tsk, Tsk. I'm surprised Defiant, you're the last person I ever expected to have to tell basic electrical theories to.

P=VI or watts=volts*amps to put it in context of our situation. 12 volts* 70 amps = 840 watts
assuming you're actually producing 200 watts from each headlight we can say you have ~440 watts worth of work left available for critical systems like the ignition coils.

While I'm not up to date on actual amp/volt/watt ratings from the dsm coils, I would imagine that something along the lines of .7amps per 1000 rpms or we'll say a max of about 7.2amps at 10k rpms. input voltage to the coil is still at 12 volts (though output is much much higher). Looks like we'd be burning up a max of about 86.4 watts for the ignition system... rounding off...about 353 watts of work left in the old girl.

Obviously there are other systems (sensors, gauge and dash lights, radio, etc) and no electrical system is perfect so it would be rare to get peak output from the alternator, not to mention losses in transmission..but overall it's doable...but it's costing you about half the power your alternator can put out to do it

damn it i didn't mean to write a book