HID info

[project trueno]

...you learn something new each day from club4ag

anyway this is taken from club4ag, but seeing how its useful to ppl with cars in general, i posted this here

HID :o

http://www.twelve100.com/faq%20and%20tech_pages/HID%20Lighting%20is%20it%20worth%20the%20Price.htm l

[InNeedOfH2O]

Traditional Halogen Bulbs

PIAA and other near-HID frequency H4 bulbs, while some are colored more for fashion than others, you will want to choose them correctly. It’s important to understand how lighting works.

Halogen filament bulbs (all modern standard light bulbs including PIAA, and other makes of ‘colored’ bulbs) use similar filament wires that technologically has the ability to make red to lower blue frequencies generally and 3000~3200K range predominance. It’s the combination of these colors that make them yellowish-white. To mask the predominantly yellow lights of these filaments, many brands use colored bulb surfaces to mask the lower frequencies, thereby making it effectively darker but bluer to ‘simulate’ HID. But the fact is the more blue you go the darker the light gets as filament’s original color isn’t available at that frequencies. You may see 4500K halogen but its actually a 3200K filament with all the light basically filtered off by the glass to give you the little tiny bit of the 4500K light produced by the filament, and way off it's peak light output color rabge.

So… when choosing bulbs, get clear bubs to make most use of the limited color output of the halogen (sometimes falsely named xenon, or plasma) filament bulbs. Don't be fooled with these terms, HID and Xenon are used in almost every imposter halogen bulbs made. If it doesn't require a ballast installation, it's not a true plasma lamp system. These tinted glass enclosed halogen lights not only have darker light output, they generate lots of heat, change colors in short time, and are not even close to true Xenon Plasma systems.

And knowbody believed me

Thanks for making feel like I'm not crazy

[Chris Corolla S]

Nice, informative link.

[EKam]

You know you can learn even more if you look at our TTCC reference links.

http://www.tt-cc.com/links.htm

Two of these links will get your stomach full on lighting.
:evil:
http://faq.auto.light.tripod.com/general-faq.htm
http://lighting.mbz.org/

[Chris Corolla S]

Elegant, that page is tight, we really should set up a links section here... maybe broken down by performance/cosmetics, etc. Or broken out by car type. Or both. Sweet car/ plan for your car by the way, really classy.
-Chris

[VZV21]

here's one I did for ClubWRX.net

http://www.clubwrx.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9936