Airtime HID - production

Picture Gallery - In the making, to final product

I first made a 3 piece frame... and
realized that if I were to make this for
friends, It'd be much easier to simply cut
it from one piece of Stainless.

Also, it created a laborious procedure to
assemble the frame and get it all
straight without a jig of some sort.

It did help create the prototype, and
once the prototype was tested I was
able to build the production one-piece
18gauge 304 stainless steel frame.

... the very first idea, after taking
months of finding the correct parts to
make a great light, I ended up thinking
all of this could be supported by a
plastic shell and found out that it wasn't
such a solid platform.

Since I like to fabricate as a hobby, I
had some 304 stainless in my garage
to try out.

It was nice to know that low and high
beams, offered a great pattern of light.

Here's low beam, and low AND high
beam powered up to show just how
much light the Airtime HID was able to
cast on the garage door. Just think of
how well it does in the dark of night.

The color... is 4300Kelvin, and is
perfect for pure dark, dust, and piercing
the night. Here it is next to a Baja
Designs Diablo (single) HID

There are many HID Components out
there that claim bi-xenon. It's very
important to know this is not a single
HID system, nor a mechanical or 'flex'
system. It doesn't telescope in or out
and actually uses two slim ballasts.
Other companies will sell an HID that
uses only one ballast, or isn't a true
bi-xenon. 4 wires from the bulb is a
dead give-a-way you get dual HID!

Here, I prepare to cut three prototype frames out of a piece of stainless.
It wasn't easy, and tears up bi-metal blades quick. The production
units are water-jet cut and cleaned up to be a nice finished product.

To be perfectly clear, bi-xenon bulbs need to have a clear and distinct
separation between the low and high beam. If not, you aren't getting a
separation between low and high and it's just dual HID into the same beam
pattern. That does not create double the light, like some may think.

After cutting out the three stainless prototype frames, I drilled and bent them to my template.
....Here are three pictures from the frame itself, to it installed into a shell and completely
wired. After some severe testing of the frame structure and HID components once again, I
was able to begin with the final production frames and the process of getting a final product.