Testing and Using Vintage / Old Sealed Beam Headlights - Vortex Garage Ep. 21

[@davidpowell3347]

You could get some old connectors from old scrapped cars (the final part of the car's harness that attached to the headlight) and splice or solder them to leads that fit your battery charger or clip leads that attach to the battery so as to more easily connect and unconnect the headlights to the power source

[@davidpowell3347]

At some point (late 1970s ?) a regulation change I believe allowed 55 watts on low beam round headlights instead of 37.5 or 50 watts,I think new replacement seal beams with the new higher wattage were advertised or sold as "Plus 25' " OEM "dual" headlights that came on 1970 Ford (2 headlights each side of car) each headlight only rated 37.5 watts on high beam (low beam filament was 50 watts) for a total of 75 watts on each side of car so the type 2 sealed beam was actually less wattage on high beam than on low beam- but the light was aimed higher and joined by the other bulb that was also aimed higher

[@44warden]

At no poont in the video did you show us how you hooked up everything i.e. charger to headlamp. Multimeter to headlamp from behind? Other than that I appreciated the video but still a little unclear on everything.

[@davidpowell3347]

Almost all cars today (or at least new cars) have plastic headlight lenses and there is a big problem with these things becoming frosted,clouded,and eventually yellowed and opaque as the cars get older eventually reducing the light thrown down the road --- and maybe throwing more scattered light up into the eyes of drivers coming from ahead not sure if different brands of cars differ as to the rapidity of this deterioration or if the current production cars have better plastic headlights than the first plastic headlights that seemed to hit the market after about 1986 there are beginning to be "restoration" kits being sold and a "2 in one headlight cleaner and sealer" as car care products

[@sparkleking1684]

great video, helped me heaps thanks for taking the time to make it!

[@mohimsahu6859]

How many filaments does used in sealed beam head light bulbs contain 1 2 3 4

[@davidpowell3347]

American style : old single headlight each side of car contained two filaments newer style with two headlights each side of car one headlight contained two filaments, the other one contained only one filament that operated on high beam only two filament bulbs were called "type 2" and one filament bulbs called "type 1" also "type 1" had two prongs on the back for connector, "type 2" had three prongs on the back for connector depending on the year modest wattage/brightness increases were allowed 1939 and earlier I think the cars had replaceable bulbs similar to today except that the replaceable bulb was just a common incandescent not "halogen" when seal beams were introduced they rapidly became standardized and required by State law some of the last seal beam style bulbs contained a sealed in halogen capsule similar to an H4 as used in European headlights such as Cibie there was a Cibie square form glass faced headlight that used a replaceable H4 unit that could fit in place of the square sealed beam that was used in such American cars as the 1980 Chevrolet Citation

[@reneehochanadel3239]

Nice head of hair! Wish I still had hair like that!

[@BryonSturgill]

What a weird comment.

[@jimksa67]

LOL, you are so verbose but dont show your hookup on the three terminals to test or put power to! I cant see into my small sealed bike beam for ground

[@kenhart3839]

who cares about the bs. get to the point!