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Info: What's Hella's "DE technology"?

Info: What's Hella's "DE technology"?

From gti-vr6-ownercobra.ccsi Sun Mar 14 18:56 CST 1999
From: Steve Kradel <stvot>
To: tamracerols, gti-vr6cobra.ccsi
Subject: Re: [gti-vr6] Hella DE technology
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 19:55:01 -0500
 
At 07:08 PM 3/14/99 -0500, Tamracerols wrote:
>Hey guys, a couple of questions from the new guy: all those with the
>Hella quad conversion- does anyone know what "DE Technology" is, and

DE means "double ellipsoid," which is descriptive of the reflector or
somesuch other component of the lights.  The upshot is that the beam
pattern is even sharper than with standard ECE-code lamps.

>what purpose(other than looking kinda cool) this pattern _/ _/ of the
>low beams serve? I can't seem to dig up any of this on the web.

Well, see... I *thought* this was obvious.  The idea is to put light onto
the roadway without blinding other drivers, and the angled parts on the
right illuminate roadsigns and other stuff off to the side the road.

Steve


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