In the Business Division Lighting, HELLA develops and manufactures headlamps, rear combination lamps, signal and interior lights for almost all renowned automotive companies. Worldwide, we are among the top 5 suppliers. When it comes to innovative high-end headlamps, however, we have acquired an especially strong market position. In the 2021/2022 fiscal year, the division with more than 18,300 employees worldwide generated sales of € 2.9 billion.
Thousands of individually controllable pixels
Homogenity level comparable to OLED lightsource
Delivering a complete system as one stop shop with global footprint
Intelligent dynamic light system
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Vnitřní osvětlení
Car Body Lighting
Leading vehicle lighting supplier
Light is essential to both seeing and being seen. Since vehicle lighting is so important to the safety of everyone on the road, HELLA develops innovative lighting systems that offer a high level of driving comfort while also providing optimum illumination of the road ahead. But that’s not all: Design is also an increasingly important factor where HELLA develops systems enabling designers to create unique brand-specific styles.
Dosavadní stav techniky Technologie
- LED světlomety
- Laser high beam spot
- FlatLight rear lamps
- Multi lens array
- RGB LEDs for interior lighting
- Glare-free high beam
- Matrix reading light
- Light projections
Styling and Appearance
- Rear lamp signatures
- Lighting setting the interior in the right ambient
- Light animations and scenarios
- Ultra slim headlamp design
Worldwide Lighting Locations
HCCU (Northville) Development & Customer
Service & Application Center
HELLA Ventures (Sunnyvale)
HAM-L (Irapuato) Development & Production
HAM-L (El Salto) Production
HAM-L (Tlaquepaque) Development
Plant 1 (Lippstadt, Germany) Development
Plant 2 (Lippstadt, Germany) Production
HIS (Wembach/Atzenbach, Germany) Development & Production
HELLA Ventures (Berlin, Germany)
HBPO (Lippstadt, Germany) Development
HAN (Mohelnice, Czech Republic) Development & Production
HSK (Kocovce, Slovakia) Production
HSK (Banovce, Slovakia) Production
HSS (Ljubljana, Slovenia) Development & Production
HISB (Bratislava, Slovakia) Production
HSK (Trencin, Slovakia) Production
HFR (Paris, France) Customer Service & Application Center
Customer Service & Application Center (Gothenburg, Sweden)
HJPN (Tokyo) Customer Service & Application Center
HCL (Changchun) Production
HNTC (Nanjing) Development
HJL (Jiaxing) Production
HELLA MINTH (Jiaxing) Development & Production
HFL (Chengdu) Production
HFL (Changchun) Development & Production
HELLA BHAP (Sanhe) Development & Production
HCCC (Shanghai) Customer Service & Application Center
HELLA BHAP (Beijing) Development & Production
HELLA BHAP (Tianjin) Production
HIA (Chennai) Development
HIA (Coimbatore) Development
HELLA Light Tunnel – The largest of it´s kind in Europe
Situated in Lippstadt, the centerpiece of HELLAs technical competence. The 140m long and 11m wide facility gives an illuminating, realistic and subjective impression, complementing simulations and calculations. Used to test spread, light color, light distribution and the homogeneity of the light when developing for a customer and also to test the wide range of in-house developments. Almost natural surroundings can be created in this unique light testing facility.
L-LAB
L-LAB: Unique international Research Institute for Automotive Lighting Technology and Mechatronics
The L-LAB research institute is supported by HELLA GmbH & Co. KGaA, the University of Paderborn and Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences in a public-private partnership. Together we work on issues for future automotive lighting technology. The interdisciplinary team from the fields of engineering, physics and psychology is working on the fundamentals for tomorrow’s lighting technology and developing prototypes and technology demonstrators. With the support of experienced employees, young researchers are given the opportunity to work scientifically in an application-oriented manner and to gain outstanding professional qualifications.
More information can be found on the L-LAB website.
That’s the only lamp of its size that’s worth messing with, but remember, driving lights are actually auxiliary high beams, for use only with your main high beams on empty dark roads, never with low beams and never by themselves and never in traffic.
bobski
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Joined Mar 7, 2007 Messages 102 Location Delaware
Does anyone have 1st hand experience with this lamp?
http://www.autobarn.net/helauxligff.html
I’ve got a set sitting in a box in my garage that I picked up a few years ago for $60 from AutoZone or PepBoys or somewhere, and never got around to installing. They seem to be of decent quality. I’ve powered them up a few times, and as I recall they have a pretty focused hot spot, though somewhat elongated. If aimed properly, they should put light a good ways down the road. Got any specific questions?
270winchester
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Joined Aug 9, 2004 Messages 3,983 Location down the road from Pleasure Point.
the Hella driving lamps are nice and bright but are of limited utility unless your drive involves a lot of driving on empty roads.
I replaced my 550s with a set of XL auxiliary low beams I scored after advised by Scheinwerfermann. It can be on anytime really, so much more useful than driving lamps.
broncoman529
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Připojeno 1. února 2008 Messages 13
I have used many Hella products over the years and they are the best in my opinion. They are probably the most durable and the most efficient lighting company on the market. They also give you a good quality wiring harness and relay. You can’t go wrong with Hella.
-Virgil-
Flashaholic
Připojeno 26. března 2004 ke zprávám 7,802
You can’t go wrong with Hella.
Sure ya can. Hella, like most other companies, makes a large range of products. Some of them are designed and built for maximum performance, some of them are designed and built for minimum price, and some of them are just toys (like Hella’s «Optilux» line of toy bulbs and lights from China, designed for the kids who think lights are fashion accessories).
It’s also worth keeping in mind that the wrong kind of lamp, or a lamp incorrectly installed, aimed, hooked up, and/or used is worse than worthless, no matter how good its quality or who made it.
picard
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Připojeno 31. prosince 2004 Zprávy 1,298
Is this driving lamp water proof in heavy rain, snow storm?
a
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Joined Nov 11, 2007 Messages 59 Location Wisconsin
Does anyone know where to buy the Hella XL’s ? I thought I read somewhere that they are discontinued ?
I replaced my 550s with a set of XL auxiliary low beams I scored after advised by Scheinwerfermann. It can be on anytime really, so much more useful than driving lamps.[/QUOTE]
-Virgil-
Flashaholic
Připojeno 26. března 2004 ke zprávám 7,802
They are discontinued. You have to score a set on eBay, for example.
bobski
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Joined Mar 7, 2007 Messages 102 Location Delaware
Is this driving lamp water proof in heavy rain, snow storm?
It looks like it would handle rain and snow just fine. The outer shell of each lamp has a tight fitting grommet where the wiring passes through, a ventilation hole on each side between the reflector area and mounting bracket bolt, and a drain notch/hole on the front edge. The shell fits tightly to the reflector/lens assembly, so it should do a good job of keeping excess moisture away from the back of the lamp.
The lens/reflector assembly appears to be cast aluminum with the glass lens held in place by a healthy bead of silicone sealant. The back of the reflector looks to be painted to prevent corrosion, while the inside is either polished or (more likely) metal plated.
The only weakness I see in the design is the bulb socket. There’s no O-ring or other air-tight seal between the lamp housing/reflector and the bulb. While there doesn’t appear to be any gaps for stray mist droplets to pass through, fully submerging the lamp would likely allow water into the bulb/reflector area. There are no drain or ventilation holes in the reflector/lamp assembly, and a lip on the bulb socket would prevent at least some water from flowing back out the way it came. If the reflector isn’t properly clear-coated (I couldn’t tell), this water could corrode the reflective surface in a matter of days, ruining the assembly.
To recap, they should handle bad weather just fine, but don’t go fording any rivers or bolting them to your personal submarine.
Alaric Darconville
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Joined Sep 2, 2001 Messages 5,377 Location Stillwater, America
The wiring and the terminations really look poor to me, but maybe that’s the way they’re all done. Seems to me that the wiring could be at least a heavier gauge.
Hamilton Felix
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Joined Jan 2, 2010 Messages 931 Location Marblemount, WA, USA
From what I’m picking up on motorcycle forums like Advrider, Stromtrooper and V-strom Riders International, the FF50 is better than the FF75. But no small light really matches a big light of similar quality. Still, one must find the best compromise. I see some riders even install HID conversions in the FF50.
Hella, like so many other manufacturers, has decided to pimp out their name. First with the low cost, Asian made Optilux line (don’t count on them to be weatherproof), and now I’m seeing Hella branded lights made in Taiwan instead of Europe (500 and 500FF @ Wal Mart).
I’m facing a new challenge in upgrading the (already admittedly good) lighting on my Suzuki DL650. Impoverished by an expensive two year divorce, I’ve abandoned dreams of Soltek Fuego HID driving lights, and a high quality HID conversion of my H4 headlights remains only a dream. Improving the lighting on a motorcycle, with its tiny charging system, very limited mounting area, and doing it all on a near zero budget, is an interesting problem. I really looked hard the the FF50.
For now, I’m thinking I’ll replace both of my stock H4 bulbs with Philips X-treme Power H4 bulbs. If I stumble across a super cheap deal on something like the Hella FF75 or FF50, I might try them. But there’s no substitute for a bigger reflector, particularly when the bike may limit me to 35 watt bulbs. (WHY do I have so d—-d many old Cibie and Marchal H2 driving lights, when they only make 35 watt halogen bulbs in H3?).
I’d say try the FF75’s only if you can spare the money or find a super deal on them. And WATCH them for condensation or leakage inside. Since my need is for lighting that really reaches out at night on lonely, rainy rural highways (where there’s no such thing as too much light), I think I’ll look for something a tad bigger and I’ll lean toward pencil beams. Good luck.
-Virgil-
Flashaholic
Připojeno 26. března 2004 ke zprávám 7,802
I’ve been well impressed with the Bosch Compact 100, which is — surprise — 100mm (4 inches) in diameter. It lends itself to motorcycle mounting because its reflector unit can be installed in the housing in any of four positions 90 degrees apart, so the lamp’s threaded mounting stud can be placed at the top, left, bottom, or right. The fog lamp version has a bulb shield that likely wouldn’t stand up to motorcycle vibration. It could easily be removed, but then it wouldn’t be a fog lamp any longer, more like a wide-beam driving lamp with the same conditions of safe use as any other driving lamp: only with main high beams, never with low beams or in traffic. The driving lamp version has no bulb shield. I got a pair from Stern a few years ago, think I paid a little under $50 apiece; I imagine they can be bought from anyone who handles Bosch lighting. They take an H3 bulb and have done well for me, including keeping water out.
Here’re the spec sheets:
Hilldweller
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Joined Dec 17, 2009 Messages 671 Location Hog Waller, GA
Did we drift to m/c aux lighting?
Rigid Industries will soon have their version out. It will be a 2″ cube with four 3-watt LEDs and have the same basic price point.
Spy photo makes it look huge but it’s only 2″ square and draws less than an amp:
Hamilton Felix
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Joined Jan 2, 2010 Messages 931 Location Marblemount, WA, USA
Hey thanks, Schweinwerfermann. I’ll check out those Bosch lights. (Hey, that Gore Tex membrane business is interesting. I really want to know if it prevents internal fogging.) I’d suggest picard check them out, too. Might be a better choice than the FF75, unless the deal on the latter is really super low dollar.
And you reminded me, I haven’t corresponded with Daniel Stern for ages. Always an enlightening guy to talk with.
Sorry about causing thread drift, Hilldweller. Actually, I think there’s some crossover between the challenges of motorcycle lighting and those of automotive lighting — at least with regard to today’s small, streamlined «plastic» cars. Charging systems aren’t usually as small, but today’s cars don’t offer much mounting area. There’s near zero space on my 2007 Corolla. My Significant Other drives it about 100 miles a day. It has pretty good stock lights, but I’d love to do an HID upgrade on the high beams. And I’ve learned that those eBay «same as OEM» foglights may be cheap, but the beam pattern sucks. Didn’t even install them before searching for used ACTUAL Toyota fogs.
I’d sure love to see beam pattern comparisons and some tests on both the Solstice and the Rigid Industries LED lights. If one can make LED lights reach out far enough, they might be just the ticket on both motorcycles and small cars.
Even SO’s 1999 Grand Cherokee isn’t exactly loaded with mounting opportunities. One can certainly see why smaller lights, like the Hella FF75 and FF50 are selling these days. Fortunately, she bought the Jeep used, and the original owner towed it behind an RV. The two one-inch square receivers in front were made for a towbar, so should be plenty strong for me to use if I fabricate a front end guard with light mounting tabs. Protection, lights, and easy removal during maintenance — sounds good to me.
