HID's! HELP!
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HID's! HELP!
The situation is that everyone has their own idea about HID's. Wether it's how they look, which brand, or how bright. This leaves me confused, and worse off than when I started the search. I do know that the brightest that I would consider going would be 6000K, probably 5300. If you have HID's yourself and know a brand/style that is good, please make a suggestion!
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that number refers to he color, not the brightness, the lower the number, the more yellow tho color. higher numbers are more blue
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6k is pure white. Thats what i got on mine, didnt want any blue tint at all on a cherokee. Ill try to snap some beam shots if i remember.
edit: and yes, the K values are the colors. Not the brightness
edit: and yes, the K values are the colors. Not the brightness
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Im running some **** *** (german) 8k's on my heep right now... I forget the brand name but I love'em..... oh and find a good set of projectors or HIDS are useless and annoying to other drivers
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my shop sells tview kits with full harnesses and i recommend 6k or 8k, anything less is too yellow anything more is goofy colored, i have installed over 100 sets of these and the kits i sell are actual hi-lo-kits not a halogen low or high all hid and full digital ballast.
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ddmtunning has a great product im running thier 4500k with the 35watt ballisct
its almost a pure white light and its super bright
and the cost was great and if it ever breaks or you have problems send it back and they will send you a new one no questions asked
its almost a pure white light and its super bright
and the cost was great and if it ever breaks or you have problems send it back and they will send you a new one no questions asked
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Forget the brand of mine but there 8000k low with high beams, upgraded hd wire harness from LMC. I had started with cheap black projectors from ebay which have no shroud on them and sucked so for the mean time im running autopal euro's not the e-codes, until i get real projectors.
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Ddmtuning.com I think are the best. Plug and play kits and a warrenty. I have two kits one 5k in my car and 8k In The jeep and wish they where a little brighter.
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The brightest light gets is around 4300-5000k
Anything lower or higher in kelvins will be darker.
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So if you have a 3000 K HID running at 10 amps and a 6000 K running at 5 amps, the 6000 K will have roughly half the luminosity. Higher color temp, yes, but lower output.
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and human eye is sensitive to yellow light color. so it better to have 4300K to 5000K. 3000 has a yellow tint on bulbs. I dont understand why.
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Actually, the human eye's spectral sensitivity is heavily biased in green to orange.
Sunlight is 5500 K to 6500 K depending on whose viewing standard is used (there are several accepted viewing standards). None of the eBay HID vendors state which viewing standard they use for their color temperature ratings, and even if they did, I wouldn't believe them. The Chinese tend to make up specs as they go along, and all the inexpensive HID kits come from generic Chinese sources.
The cheaper HID capsules also tend to change color temp as they age, usually going to a "hotter" color temp. At my current job I evaluated a generic HID capsule (for a personal project) and after about 30 hours it went up over 1,000 K in color temp. The human eye can easily perceive a 100 K shift.