Projector headlights are high-performance headlights that were originally only available in luxury vehicles. They can use extremely bright high-intensity discharge (HID) and light-emitting diode (LED) bulbs that would be unsafe to use with traditional reflector headlights.
Difference Between Projector and Reflector Headlights – What’s the Big Difference?
The way projector headlights are designed allows them to illuminate more road surface, at greater distances, than traditional reflector headlights. They project a more focused beam than reflector headlights, meaning more light is thrown directly forward, where it’s needed, and less to the sides where it’s not.
Projector headlamps consist of a headlamp unit with a replaceable bulb, just like reflector headlamps. They also contain a reflector component, but that is where the similarities end.
The overall design of projector headlights is based on the idea of focusing light with a specially shaped reflector and then projecting it onto the road with a shutter with a beam of light that is evenly distributed and tightly organized.
