The Lamp Room

Not impressed with these SON-I, 3 out of the 9 I installed in Jan 17 are cycling , also the Chinese Philips HPIs I fitted at Aqua have both exploded within just 18 months!, no wonder today’s HID are loosing out to LED!

What’s voltage like? And yeh China HPI are shite I’ve been saying that for ages!

I find SON I is generally shite all round. The SON T or SON E are different. Those lasted like 8 years the slovakian osram SON T with the ring around the top

Disagree with that dan I’ve had 8-10 years out of the Philips SON I CLEAR Lamps and some of the lucalox SON I Clear could do similar

Wonder if my Vision 70w SON I will do 8-10 years. After all the last one i tested only lasted 9 month before going black

Venture’s halide are lasting the longest at the minute!, but what’s worse, the only wholesale we have an account at only stocks Bell shite , and their SON I barely do a fuckin year

Venture seem to be the only ones actually still developing their HIDs, ie like their uni-form quartz arc tubes.

Slovakian I's being crap thats a first. They did their 4+ years fair and square back when my town was full of them (not so long ago)

Have any I's you look after failed with a stuck starter yet ?