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  2. High-intensity discharge lamp - Wikipedia

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    15 kW xenon short-arc lamp used in IMAX projectors. High-intensity discharge lamps (HID lamps) are a type of electrical gas-discharge lamp which produces light by means of an electric arc between tungsten electrodes housed inside a translucent or transparent fused quartz or fused alumina arc tube. [1] This tube is filled with noble gas and ...

  3. Automotive lighting - Wikipedia

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    High-intensity discharge, or HID lights, sometimes referred to as "xenon lights", are modified metal halide lights employing xenon fill gas. Traditional HID lights, such as those used for general lighting, have a long warm-up time. Headlights must provide light very shortly after they are turned on, and the xenon gas serves to reduce warm-up ...

  4. Emergency vehicle lighting - Wikipedia

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    Emergency vehicle lighting, also known as simply emergency lighting or emergency lights, is a type of vehicle lighting used to visually announce a vehicle's presence to other road users. A sub-type of emergency vehicle equipment, emergency vehicle lighting is generally used by emergency vehicles and other authorized vehicles in a variety of ...

  5. KC HiLiTES - Wikipedia

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    The company was founded in 1970 in Saugus, California by Peter Kim Brown and his wife Carol Brown, and named using their initials. [1] They were spurred to start the company when Peter began using landing lights from aircraft adapted to fit his truck, and realized that the way they were mounted would not stand up to the rigors of use of the off-road community of race buggies and pickups.

  6. Hydrargyrum quartz iodide - Wikipedia

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    Hydrargyrum quartz iodide (HQI) is a trademark name of Osram 's brand of metal halide lamps [1] made for general floodlighting, arena floodlighting, shop and commercial and industrial lighting. Hydrargyrum is the Latin name for the element mercury. When heated, mercury vapour is created inside the lamp, and deposited when it cools. An HQI lamp ...

  7. Headlamp - Wikipedia

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    Headlamp. A motor scooter 's front with an impractical number and variety of headlamps, added for decorative purposes and characteristic of Mod culture. A headlamp is a lamp attached to the front of a vehicle to illuminate the road ahead. Headlamps are also often called headlights, but in the most precise usage, headlamp is the term for the ...

  8. HID Global - Wikipedia

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    HID Global Corporation is an American manufacturer of secure identity products. The company is an subsidiary of Assa Abloy , a multinational door and access control conglomerate. [ 2 ] Björn Lidefelt was appointed CEO on 27 January 2020.

  9. Blackout light - Wikipedia

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    Blackout driving light. Blackout lights are head and tail lamps that are equipped with special lenses that are designed to cast a diffused horizontal beam of light for the driver of the vehicle to navigate with, and drivers of other vehicles to spot the vehicle with. In the military, they are intended for use when driving a convoy at night when ...