H4 globe; which way is up?

Folks,
does an H4 globe go in with it's pins this way Y (with the little dish over
the filament up-side down)
or the other way around?
Thanks ...

 

Would it really matter?

But my bike has them so the 2 bits are at the top, with 1 at the bottom

Mad

 

Only if you want the low-beam to be lower than the high beam....
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Thankum!

 

Now I'm worried; I just checked gNatalie's car and it's got the 2 at the
bottom.....

 

I'm not going out to look now, it's too bloody dark.

-----sharks

 

This here Honda book has a piccy of an H4 bulb with lugs at 12, 5, 7
o'clock, and the three pins on the back like an upside-down U. I'd have
a look at my bike but I can't be arsed. Suck-o.

-----sharks

 

Thanks Sharks; that's two votes to one so the upside-down Y has it!
(grabs glue-gun and puts on blue-and-white-striped apron)

 

My bmw's have the open section to the bottom.

Boxer

 

Yep, just checked. If this is an, ah, spontaneous OEM -> H4 conversion,
the filament distance may be all wrong for the reflector though, but
there's not much you can do about that other than replacing the whole
damned headlight, unless you get into one of those Japanese HID
conversion kits .

-----sharks

 

It goes in thus.....


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So the little dish goes UNDER the filament. What it does, is block the
bits of light that come out and reflect off the reflector to point up
(ie, so you get low beam).

 

http://mad-biker.shellieworld.com/25august 028.jpg
here work it out ya ingrate!

Mad

 

My car's gottum at the bottum just like gNatalies top, er, car.

(IIRC, my bike takes a Yamaha variant of an H4 that has an
extra little tag to make it into a Yamahasomethingorother.
Bend the tag off an H4, put the two at the bottum, and it
becomes a Yamahawahssnam)

GB

 

Muck fee!

--
Clem
"sometimes to fueling is 3 rd gear feels a strange - like its not getting
enuff ful/splutterly" -- Corks.

 

Yep.
Thanks all.
I just realise that when I said "pins" that some people took it as the
electrical-contact pins instead of the locating pins.

Fortunately they're both kinda the same way up ...

--
Clem
"sometimes to fueling is 3 rd gear feels a strange - like its not getting
enuff ful/splutterly" -- Corks.


in message

 

Fark, I thought you were talkin' about the bits what
where the wires go.

NFI where the wires go, but the lugs go what where
sharks said they did.

GB, I'd go and have a look at me bike 'n' me car for ya,
but I've been into the turps a bit already, and it's
dark, and...

 

Yeah but I'm less butcherous than the previous owner (of the
gNatalie-mobile).
He just plugged an H4 bulb into the wiring and then poked it into the hole
in the reflector and screwed it closed.
It was sitting at a 30° angle and only held in by the wiring harness
behind!
A proper, complete H4 headlight was $55 for rusty-wreckers or $99 (plus $5
postage) for new.

 

"Here's one we prepared earlier"

Yeah, I'd be a bit annoyed too!


GB

 

Don't bother. I had me sunnies on and still can't see anything but spots!

 

Thats Shellies bra? Ya married a darlek???

 

the glass bit goes inside the headlight