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1969 C 10 headlights

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    Posted: 1 hour 43 minutes ago at 5:55am
Drove mine to Home Depot before daylight today
Were our headlights really so pathetic back in the day? Should say I kept them on high beam. Nobody cared and I still couldn't see very well. Eye doctor claims I'm 20/20 . Thanks
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The old 6013 and 4000 series lamps made decent light. What I found as to my issues was the onset of cataracts. Level Two is bad enough to make them appear dim when not but not bad enough to affect vision acuity for tests.

In contrast current Projector beam lamps are like looking directly at old Reel movie projector bulbs when lit up, blinding, may as well weld without a hood.
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Make sure you have a good ground and no corrosion on the connections. You may want to upgrade to halogen headlamps. I don’t care for the super bright lights that blind me when meeting a vehicle on the road. I need more light to see well now. Guess I need to see the eye doctor, haven’t had my eyes checked in about 18 years. 
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Should add, the old lamps did degrade, lighting elements sag from time at heat, vibration and the silvering of the back housing turns gray. All known issues of a incandescent lamp. Halogen replacements will make considerable difference.
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I think it's like most things, we were happy with what we had back them because we had nothing better to compare anything to.  As for headlights, remember when the Halogen lights were the latest and brightest? Beside of todays brighter-than-the-sun LEDs they look like candles.  Then if you get some numbskull that has no clue what a dimmer switch is for it is impossible to see the road. 
  A few years before I retired, I'd just left the cement plant a few minutes prior at about 2AM,  when I saw the sky lit up like a sports arena. I was meeting what was possibly a motorcycle as the lights were so bright I just might have well been looking into the sun at noon. A few minutes later I saw red and blue lights behind me. When I stopped and the officer came to the door he said I ran someone off the road. After he reviewed my dashcam.  He said have a safe trip. I asked if he knew who accused me of running them off the road and he replied, yes he was going back to issue a citation for excessive glare of the motorcycle's headlights and another for more headlights than allowed.
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