Untrue, plain and simple. Good thing you asked 10,000K is the temperature of the filament inside the bulb. As a general rule, the higher you go in filament temperature, the lower the amount of useable light you get. The best HID kit to pick is 4300K HID (hyper white) and the next best is 5000K (white with a tinge of blue). With a 10,000K kit, you will get a violet color with little to no useable light. 10,000K HIDs are usually used for show purposes but not for regular everyday driving. My advice, go with a high quality 4300K HID kit. MODEXPRESS has a sale going on for 80$ last time I checked You should be able to find them in the classified section here. Good luck!

 

Untrue, plain and simple. Good thing you asked 10,000K is the temperature of the filament inside the bulb. As a general rule, the higher you go in filament temperature, the lower the amount of useable light you get. The best HID kit to pick is 4300K HID (hyper white) and the next best is 5000K (white with a tinge of blue).

sorry, i gotta correct you on this. 10,000K is NOT the actual temperature of the filament. especially since HID bulbs don't even HAVE filaments! 10000 degrees Kelvin is 17540.33 degrees Farenheit or 9726.85 celcius. not only would this melt the headlight assembly, it's hot enough to melt just about anything else, including solid rock.

HIDs will get hot enough to burn your skin and maybe melt plastic if you put it directly on the bulb, but that's about it. nowhere near even 1000 Kelvin.

when they list a kelvin "temperature" for HID bulbs it's the color temperature. most flat screen TVs have similar color "temperature" adjustments rated in degrees kelvin. I don't know the origins of using Kelvin to describe color temperature, but it may have something to do with astronomy - red giant stars are some of the coolest, our sun is a yellow star, white stars are hotter than the sun, and blue stars some of the hottest.

anyway, your color temp recommendations are spot on - 4300k is what most manufacturers install as OEM, and it's what I plan to install if i can ever get the money saved up for a proper bixenon kit - i don't want to lose the high beams in my 98 by converting to a single stage HID kit. Sure it'd be fine around town, but on the back roads, I use my high beams a lot, not to mention when you want to flash your lights to signal someone to go, or to tell them to turn off THEIR brights....

 

thank you, what about 8000k? i want a nice bluish/purple color like the HIDs that come stock on newer cars. Also, i want high and low beams, i know when converting to HIDs sometimes you only get the low beam.

 

http://www.toyotanation.com/forum/showthread.php?t=305428&highlight=depo+hid
This is the HID kit I currently have in my car. It is a 5000K HID kit, is it sorta like what you are looking for? Just ignore the output pictures because I have made adjustments to eliminate hotspots and increase projection distance and simply didn't update the pictures... The point I'm trying to get across is the color...

 

yes it is but just a little bit more blue, any suggestions.

 

I would personally go with a 6000K kit then

 

i really appreciate your help thank you, so 8000k is not worth it right?

 

You could go 8000k if you want to, but only if you don't get eye fatigue later on. 4300-6000K would be the best for light output. Oh and the bluish/purple effect you see on newer cars like Acuras and BMWs, more than likely it's the projectors that are causing that look.

 

get the mod-express 55W HID kit with 4300k color

done

 

why the 4300k kit instead of 6000k kit? and what do you mean with color, there is no option for that

 

keep this in mind, brightness is measure in candlepower, higher candle power mean brighter,
color is measure in kelvin, looking at the color chart, 3000 K is more yellow, 4100k is white like a day time sunlight, 5000k more green, 6000k will be more blue, and 8000k to 1000k will be purple.

so if you are picking K, you are basically picking the color.

 

4300K is the name of the color
4300K is like ur day light white colour
6000k is diamond white with a tiny hint of blue or really really crisp white
8000k is noticeably blue..like xenon blue
3000k is hyper yellow some advertise as 2500k

any other color is stupid and not really practical..even 8000k will get u trouble with cops

 

Get 5000K

I had 3000K yellow foglight HID
4300K
5000K
6000K
and 8000K all in a span of 5 months. I also dealed out HID kits through my company.

If you want that bluish look, get 5000K. That's a great compromise between brightness and color (blue).

 

^i've never found 5000k kits yet...

i think 5000k and 7000k are good colours too

but rare..cuz i don't trust ebay ones

 

advancespeedshop carries it and xenondepot carries it. i believe.

 

i like 4300k or 6000k myself. 4300k is supposed to be comprable to an oem hid setup and its said to have the best output.

 

i got 6K. i like:thumbsup:.

 

the color temperature is simply a way to describe the colour based on how hot it would be for the surface of a star would have to burn to have that kind of colour.

so red would be like 1000K which stands for Kelvin...0 Kelvin is the absolute zero temperature. and 285K would be 0 celsius.

so perfectly correctly...no way u can have HID kit burn at 10000k temperature...LOL u'd kill everyone around u including u.

 

so perfectly correctly...no way u can have HID kit burn at 10000k temperature...LOL u'd kill everyone around u including u.

thanks for the backup EE. I'm just imagining a nuclear fusion headlight assembly... twin cooling stacks out back (even though that's for fission, not fusion)

kinda like these nuclear powered video cards:
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20061113

 

4300k-5000k tops

 

plus one to fatass royal.

 

i had 6000k on my retrofit projectors...they weren't bad but when it rained it was hard to see but other than that! it was awsome. Pure white with a hint of blue

 

^same here

 

Go with 14000K! It's mad JDM yo!!!!!!!!!

 

3000 - JDM yellow (usually used in fog lights)
4300 - oem look with the most brightness
6000 - semi oem with a tint of blue
8000 - noticeably blue
10000 - Deep blue
15000 - deep blue with purple

different brands will vary in color slightly

anything above 15k and you'll have less light than what your halogen bulb will produce

but if you want the most brightness then 4300k is for you

i got the mod-express kit 6000k with the high and low beam and its awesome. if you get a hid kit without projectors than i highly reccommend you find a kit that will have a glare shield. this will keep you out of trouble with blinding other people for the most part

 

almost all cars have halogen high beams from what i know of..

HID high beams is a waste of money, since you'll never use it. Unless you hunt in the middle of the night lol

 

this is true if you have a seperate reflector section for the high beam. in gen4 (not gen4.5) it's the same reflector/lens for both low and high, which is why i want bixenons. there's a few mercedes and bmws with them. moves the bulb to change the focus point, so you don't have to wait for the high beam to get up to temperature and provide useful light.

18k? going back to the astronomy thing, i think that puts it in quasar or black hole territory! lol

 

^hmm, imagine having headlights that can be turned on to a blackhole that'll suck in any cars u don't like on the road or drivers that pisses you off....that's pretty appealing to me

 

Yes we are humans...

 

I'm not human

I have the mod-express 6000k kit and love it! like others said rain=not so great but there is more than enough street lights in my city anyway so it don't matter. Other then that the kit is bright and looks great!

Always is fun with people. They look once and think "hmmm that car isnt suppose to have hids" then i pass and they think "wtf that was a camry?" then they look at the ass end and see the word (scepter) from my panel and then think "wtf? whats a scepter?" and keep looking as i drive off. Happens all the time when i cruise the local bulivard strip at night with friends. gotta love being the only import modded camry in myrtle beach :thumbsup: besides the DONK camrys :facepalm: but they dont count. :disappoin

 

DONK. lol