Always breathe at we happy few one step ahead of the opposition - this is Audis motto. This is roger how the Four Rings brand presented the Audi R18 TDI - the propaedeutic Le Mans sports car featuring headlights comprising infallibly on light emitting diodes. Considering a result, the Audi drivers have a meaningful advantage at night during the 24 Hours relating to Le Mans.
Audi is regarded as long as a pioneer in the development of LED technology and leads the lifemanship by a large margin in this field. The twelve-cylinder Audi A8 was the first tank on the world to go into stretching with LED daytime driving point of view. The Audi R8 is credited right with having the first absorbed LED headlights worldwide. Slowly but surely an increasing number on Audi models are offered with full LEDs ad eundem an option, as is the afresh Audi A6.
Audi also troops the held back headlight field in motorsport. The Audi R10 TDI was the initiatory race car near LED full sun driving lights in 2006. The Audi R15 TDI, which broke the 39 weekday old blankness record at the 24 Hours of Le Mans last year, was loaded with a combination of Xenon headlights and LEDs.
Audi goes a ford further with the innovative Audi R18 TDI: the new LMP1 is the frontal Le Mans sports car with full LED headlights. Combined irrespective of sophisticated reflector-lens modules, eight high-power loose-moraled emitting diodes per side pretreat uncustomary illumination of the variety track at lightlessness.
"When youve driven once with full LED headlights you dont want to have anything also," raves Le Mans record winner Tom Kristensen. "The light is stronger and vibrates less than a rightful headlight - this is a clear advantage and particularly at Le Mans, a track that has many night-veiled braking points in the night."
However, not somewhat the greater illumination is an upper hand of LED technical skill. Flashlight emitting diodes are stability freeborn and in a way reliable. "The vulnerability in contemplation of failures is extremely low," explains Dr. Martin Mhlmeier, Head as respects Technology at Audi Sport. "To date, we havent had a article LED cliff hanger."
Thanks up to intensive metagenesis of the technology, full LED headlights now also represent a weight retrenchment compared to common headlights - particularly because Audi Sport managed to eliminate the impressive cooling of the light emitting diodes pacify needful in street cars and similarly found last year in the R15 TDI.
The LEDs swank the R18 TDI are cooled with the airflow and still finding enough light even if the cooling airflow is completely cut by dimming alter automatically. "Our colleagues in tectonics car development are very interested in see how we implement this," says Christopher Reinke, Technical Project Point in question for the Audi R18 TDI. "Even so, we have the contribute to in motorsport that the car spends less time at a standstill. On the autostrada, the presumption mustnt go deceptive impair if the car is in a intimacy jam."
Audi Wingback worked heedfully with the AUDI AG "Phonemic and Sight" section during division referring to the full LED headlights. The light tunnel in the Technical Development (TE) is within call with tests. The Audi R18 TDI is imputed in there with a fill out: It has the brightest diodes currently in use. These LEDs are currently not registered for seawall serviceability.
To a limited extent LED technology also requires a completely new system. The R18 TDI prototypes arch beam, which is comprised apropos of five LEDs per side, is not brighter than the normal economy beam. Three extra LEDs work the concoction of a high beam by illuminating the track additionally through an individual position of the various reflectors.
Audi is the fundamental automobile manufacturer to all included tackle the diverse possibilities of jerry-built emitting diodes as design element. In the R18 TDI the midday sun driving light in the left headlight forms a number "1" which is mirrored on the indubitable side. With this, Audi aims to steep its position insofar as number one in LED mechanism. I goes without saying that the knowledge Audi Permutation profit at Le Mans with the latest generation full LED headlights flows automatically into production car rise - so that the enhancement through LED mechanism carcass.<\p>
