What other wattages than 35W HID bulbs does exist?
There is a 17W HID bulb used for diving flashlights. It does appearantly lack some of the good features and/or qualities compared to a Philips/Osram HID 35W bulb. The main developer of automotive HID bulbs, Philips, has a 50W HID bulb (Product name: MPXL-DL50) and supporting ballast readily developed. Per fall 2002, there was no automatic shutdown on these ballasts. Output is around 5300lm. Inserting this bulb into a vehicle lamp designed for the 35W HID bulb gives more some more output, but its not a huge difference. The bulb base is not much difference from P32-d base used in 35W HID bulb base. Colortemp is 3900K which creates a CRI of 75, which is excellent. Life expectancy is around 3000hours at ideal condiations. The availability of MPXL-DL50 has been special order only up until 2004. Some boxes of 10 were sold on ebay fall 2004. Be prepare to order in larger quantities if interested. When/if Philips gets more success in selling the centralized lighting concept (based on fibre opt
