This week we reintroduced the Raptor brand name into HIDs. This is a totally new ballast just coming on the market. It looks like the regular DDM ballast but its new from the ground up.



We've put some money into this company as a long term growth project for DDM. Testing has shown the ballasts are solid. But, we are always open with you guys, the ballasts are just making their introduction and we don't have a lot of time on them yet. The bulbs used with these ballasts are our regular Apexcone Brand that you know well and that we stand behind.

Our purpose in introducing these ballasts is many fold. One, we have the long term goal to bring the manufacturing of all of our ballasts back to the USA. There's no reason to be sending your dollars offshore long term.

Second, its vastly cheaper for us not to pay profits to others even now. That's why we can drop these prices. Our goal is to use this ballast next year to sell HID kits for as little as $17.00 per kit. I'm not kidding. We'll see how this goes. Goal #3 will have an effect on that.

Third, besides obviously making money from selling kits that we import, one of our long term goals is to let all of our competition buy this ballast in many flavors overseas and use their money to help us achieve this goal.

Nothing beats having your competition pay to lower your price.

So, we hope to see lots of these kits sold here and in Europe in the coming year. We're helping make the price aggressive overseas so lots of vendors will be using these units and filling our piggybank. All the better for our friends here.

If you buy one of these, please call us from time to time over the following months to let us know how they are working. We always want to get feedback. Now that HIDs are only $39.95, my fear is that they will be treated as disposables and if one fails, people will just buy another. Please don't do this. We give it a strong warranty so you never have to pay twice.

Jim

I've got mine installed and the only complaint i have is they do not like to fire if there is too much load on the electrical system (blower on, fogs on, radio, interior lights)