AUTOMATIC HEAD LIGHT

OVERVIEW
 INTRODUCTION
 HEAD LAMPS
 LIGHT SOURCE
 CONSTRUCTION
 TWO FILAMENT BULBS
 HEAD LIGHT DAZZLES
 AUTOMATIC DIPPER
 APPLICATION OF AUTOMATIC DIPPER
 WORKING OF AUTOMATIC DIPPER
 RECENT DEVELOPMENT
 CONCLUSION
 INTRODUCTION
The number of vehicles on our roads is burgeoning
day by day. An automatic dipper is a unit, which
can automatically judge when the headlight beam
needs to be lowered, and which dip the headlamp
from which beam to a dipped beam. As the dipper
unit is well connected to the lighting system of the
vehicle, we have to look short into the type and
construction of a head light before discussing the
wiring diagram or the construction of Automatic
dippers.
 HEAD LAMPS
 The modern lighting system consists of switches,
lamps, wiring harness, and fuses or circuit
breakers.
 It may be mentioned that the primary purpose of
the headlight design is to produce illumination
over considerable distance ahead of the vehicle
and enable the driver to drive at reasonable
speeds at night with safety.
 But the provision should also be made that the
drivers of other vehicles coming from the opposite
direction to not experience a glare.
 For this purpose a dipped or meeting beam is also
provided for maintaining the reasonable speed
with safety without dazzling the coming driver.
 LIGHT SOURCE
There are two kinds of light sources
 One that emits light.
 Other that reflects lights.
The headlight is composed of three elements:
 The light filament that gives off light when a
current flows through it.
 The parabolic reflector that reflect the light in
front.
 The lens that refracts of distorts the light beam
into an illuminating pattern.
 CONSTRUCTION
 Earlier the bulb was placed at the focus of a
parabolic silvered reflector in order to give a
parallel beam of light.
 The following figure shows a parabolic reflector
with bulb, the lines showing light rays emitted
from the filament of the bulb in all directions.
 This type of headlight given a parallel light
beam, that saves greater illumination nearer the
axis.
 The parabolic reflector showing light
rays emitted from the filament of the bulb
 The effect of changing the position of
filament on the nature of the light beam
 TWO FILAMENT BULBS
 The first major advancement in headlight
design took place with the introduction of
pre-focused bulbs.
 In two filaments modern headlights there
uses a two-filament bulb with a fixed
reflector.
 It has two filaments, one for normal driving
and the other for city driving or for
overtaking.
A double – filament lamp
 HEADLIGHT DAZZLES

 The dazzle effect is one of the major

problems faced by a driver in night driving
 Automatic Dipper is one such mechanism,
which is employed for safety night driving
without the intense dazzling effects
The dazzling effect can be prevented by,
 Reducing the brightness of the headlights
of the vehicles.
 Stopping high intensity light from entering
the yes of on-coming drivers or road
users.
 Reducing the contrast between the
surrounding area and the headlight of the
vehicle.
 AUTOMATIC DIPPER
An autronic dipper is a unit which can
automatically judge when the head light
beam needs to be lowered. The auto
dippers are basically switches, which dip
the headlamp from high beam to a dipped
beam if a certain amount of light falls on its
photo sensor. It holds the lights on upper,
or high, beam until a car trigger the system
so that it shifts the headlamps to the lower
beam.
APPLICATION OF AUTOMATIC DIPPER

 In the ‘Autronic Eye’, the photoelectric cell

senses the intensity of light from the
oncoming vehicles and dips the heedful.
 The driver does not have to control the
headlights.
WORKING OF AUTO DIPPER
 RECENT DEVEOPMENT
Halogen lamps
 The halogen lamps are mostly introduced and
consist of tungsten filaments in the atmosphere
of some halogen element such as chlorine,
bromine, or iodine. The tungsten evaporated
from the filaments reacts with halogen gas to
form tungsten halide, which is decomposed back
into halogen and tungsten due to high
temperature at the filaments, thus causing the
tungsten to get redeposit on the filaments.
Composite headlights
 Many of today’s vehicles have a halogen
head light system using a replaceable
bulb. This system is called composite
headlights. By using the composite
headlight system, vehicle manufacturers
are able to produce any style of headlight
lens by desire.
HID Headlamps
 High Intensity Discharge (HID) headlamps
are the latest headlight development.
These headlamps put out three times
more light and twice spread on the road
then conventional halogen headlamps.
They also use about two-thirds less power
to operate will last two to three times
larger
 CONCLUSION

 Auto dippers are devices, which will attain

more and more importance in the
forthcoming years.
 It is a device with a very bright future.
 The number of vehicles and the condition
of the roads are improving very fast and
the day is near, when the driving
regulation, nature of traffic etc
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