How to test your xenon HID Ballast and bulb
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 พ.ย. 2014
- Short video (sorry for the terrible quality) that shows how to test a xenon HID ballast, ignitor, and bulb.
These ignitors can push up to 25,000 volts, so don't do anything stupid. I'm not responsible if you kill yourself.
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Thanks man ! simple and easy. Now..you really needed some light in that room, don't you.... Lol
Did they cut your electricity? TURN THE LIGHTS ON!!!
Great video and very informative... I have an 07 Ext Escalade... Drivers side headlight went out... checked my fuses all good... changed the relay.. I still have nothing so changed the headlight bulb and the ballast and it still doesn't work... I don't know what to do?
sm1 have an advice? i used a power adpter for turning the ballast on. it works but the light is blinking. i dont understand bevause the power adapter is supposed to convet the AC from wall socket to DC (12v) but in fact it looks like its output (from power adapter) is still in AC. what could be happening? in the specs of the PowAdp its says clearly DC (with symbol: one solid line and one intermitent above)
Daily driver M3 06 ,has a weird humming buz noise coming from drivers side light ,lasts 1 sec and light works fine ! Is my ballast going bad? Thx
I put oem hid headlights on my Camaro and bought the harness from gen5diy cause my car originally didn't come with hid lights but when turn knob on nothing I keep turning off and on and eventually one comes on then keep going till both turn on at same time. Once on they stay on but of I turn off and turn right back on they don't work have to start overs back and off again till both light on at same time.
Hey man. Thanks for video. Just wondering, my ballast are mounted in a hard to reach area, but I can access the cables going to the bulb. It’s an after market projector retrofit system with igniters built into the ballast. Can I take the leads coming out of the ballast and put a multimeter in these to test for a proper signal? What should I set my multimeter to since the initial ignition is high voltage? Thanks!
Informative video. I'm currently having issues with 2010 Audi Q5....left headlight both high/low beams turn on but then turn off about 1 minute. Since it involved both high and low beam I assumed it was not the bulb(s) and more likely the ballast. Replaced ballast and had exact same issue. Could this simply be a bulb/ignitor issue?
My headlights on a Mercedes C200 Kompressor are going off for like 2 seconds,then come back(not both in the same time,more often the right one),it is the ballast or a reley issue?
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I bought I used car and I'm not sure what hid light bulb or brand of ballast what should I do
have you tested a 2004 VW Touareg.? I'm having problems with very weak lighting.
Hi there, sorry to bother but on my Nissan 370Z I was trying to replace the bulb but I gues I twisted to the wrong way, and place the new one in but now is not working with the old bulb and new one
So I had a bad DL headlight a couple months ago on a 2015 Audio Q5 and I thought it was the ballast. I ordered two used ballasts and two new HID 5000K bulbs on eBay. I installed and they worked great. So figured it was the bulb. Now the same headlamp is showing an error on my dashboard, but it comes and goes. Sometimes the bulb will startup fine (no errors), etc. and sometimes it won't come on at all. When the bulb is own it seems to be as bright as the other one. Before I replaced, the bulb would come on but was very dim and gave be a dashboard warning. Do you think this is a faulty bulb for ballast? Because it's intermittent it's hard to swap PS components. I think the igniter is in the bulb. Thanks.
Can I test the bulb without the ballast? I think my ballast is bad.. So I wonder ifI can use the ballast from my H7 fog lights and somehow make it work with the D1S bulbs for my lowbeam headlight.. I would really appreciate it if you could help me, please
The irony of a headlight upload, being recorded in a completely dark room....
What would the problem be if i have +12V at the plug and my new ballast & bulb wont turn on? No flicker, nothing. Using a morimoto relay with good ground. Fuses good
My passenger side on my Acura TL 2007 turns on but then it starts changing color kind of like a purplish color then minutes later it flickers and turns on what you think is wrong ? The ballast or the light
I have a question...dos the ballast give the color of the light or is it the bulb..because I want to buy a new bulb and idk if it's the ballast or the bulb that gives the color????