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Originally Posted by jditom
I have been using Sylavinia silverstars for both low and highs. Brighter and whiter.
Bought them at Autozone.
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BZZ, sorry but that would be incorrect. Silverstars put out 1000 lumens just like every other standard wattage 9006 bulb. They are nothing more than a standard 9006 with a slight blue tint. A 9012 HIR (short for Halogen Infared) puts out 1700 lumens of full spectrum light from the same 55 watts. They are a much more efficent lamp, developed at John Deere's request to GE to provide a lamp that provided more output than a standard halogen for the same current draw, but is far cheaper than an HID lamp. GE took HIR technology from other lamps, put it in the 9011 and 9012 lamps and the rest is history. After a couple of years GE sold the rights to Toshiba and Toshiba tweeked the bulbs to make them more reliable (the original GE bulbs looked more like an HID capsule and tended to break under high vibrations).