Hey Matt

You are right, the math works, except you are missing one piece of the equation. The non technical, non forgiving wife!

Murphy's law says that the bulb will die right in the middle of the Daytonna 500 party, or a girls movie night. My name is now mud because I was too cheap to buy the OEM bulb. This would require me to buy a 2nd bulb as a spare.

Ouch!!!

paul

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