A Premium lighting package includes a rotary beacon light, and two halogen lights on the rear fender are replaced with hid lights. On the front grille of the R Series tractor, two halogen lights are replaced with three HID lights.
      A Xenon HID uses xenon gas to also produce a slightly bluish light, but does not use a filament. Light is produced by electricity arcing between two tungsten metal electrodes.
Designed for row-crop farming, the 8R Series' Standard lighting package includes two rear-facing, two front corner and two rear corner 55-watt cab roof halogen flood lights to provide 330 degrees of lighting. Hood lighting provides the remaining 31 degrees for complete stadium-style lighting.
       In all, Some crop producers have crews, who are more than willing to drive tractors through the night. While AutoTrack keeps the tractor running straight, the operator still needs to see what's going on - whether there is a deer, a tile line, a big rock, or something else up ahead that needs to be seen.
      John Deere engineers also found that tractor operators needed more light to monitor wide or long implements in the darkness.
 Taken too much for granted, the light bulb is still one of the greatest inventions of all time.
Incandescent lights use glass bulbs that hold a gas such as nitrogen or argon. Electricity heats up the tungsten filament resulting in very hot white heat and light.
A halogen light also uses a tungsten filament and is sealed into a bulb, but the bulb is filled with inert gas and halogen gas. Halogen bulbs give light of a higher color temperature, a blue color. The halogen gas combines with the tungsten atoms to allow the filament to last longer than incandescent light.
TheHID bulbs provide extreme brightness and daylight color to define items in the field or farmyard. The XenonHID light can last much longer than a filamenthalogen bulb.
The John Deere engineers also designed the HID lighting system to use a smaller housing and a remote-mounted ballast, Hogan said. The smaller house increases the rear window view.
Engineers improve auto lighting for night work and daytime work.