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Froggy
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 05, 2008 - 07:38 pm: | 
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Och, the K rating is the color of the light in Kelvin.
Ft_bstrd, most of it isn't even mine! I could buy a CR if i pawned off that crap  |
Ft_bstrd
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 05, 2008 - 11:03 pm: |
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Och,
I have the 3500K super yellow kit on mine. I use it as my low beam.
In the daytime it is a really intense yellow and it GREATLY enhances daytime visibility.
Also, in really foggy conditions it cuts through the fog really well.
The 8500K high beam blasts light down range, but it won't cut through the fog as well. It's blinding.
The white light provides light, but sometimes it's hard to judge distances. It doesn't provide much definition. The yellow is weird in that it washes everything in a yellow light and reduces color definition (everything is either yellow or black). Used together, though, you get all the color from the white light and great definition from the yellow.
What is cool, is that green wavelengths are easiest for the human eye to see. These two capsules, the blue white 8500K and super yellow 3500K, yield a really cool pale green light that makes seeing really enhanced.
I really think it provides the best combination and highly recommend it. |
Buford
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 05, 2008 - 11:27 pm: |
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sounds like an interesting combo there..thanks for that. |
Corporatemonkey
| | Posted on Thursday, November 06, 2008 - 06:10 am: |
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you want to stay around 6000K to 6500K for white. My 8500K are blue white
FYI HID bulbs are naturally 4300k. Anything else is achieved with a coating. Any coating will reduce your light output.
All OEM HID automotive headlights (lexus, BMW, Audi, etc...) are 4300k.
Sunlight is ~5000K
When these websites mention kits in the 12000k+ range it is totally false advertising. 12000k is in the ultraviolet range. Not good unless you are looking for a "black light" effect. |
Forerunner
| | Posted on Thursday, November 06, 2008 - 08:08 am: |
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Less than truthful advertising on these cheap HID sites?
Say it ain't so! lol
Nels |
Ft_bstrd
| | Posted on Thursday, November 06, 2008 - 09:24 am: |
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Agreed CM, but most sites don't sell 4300K or 5000K capsules. |
Corporatemonkey
| | Posted on Thursday, November 06, 2008 - 09:28 am: |
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I have to disagree, it is MUCH easier to find 4300k than anything else.
Next easiest is 8000k.
Now I will say a lot of sites market 4300/8000k bulbs as something else.
EDIT: Here is a link to a motorcycle specific 4300k kit (this is basically what I have)
http://www.kbcarstuff.com/Motorcycle_Xenon_HID_Conversion_Kits_s/34.htm
(Message edited by corporatemonkey on November 06, 2008) |
Mikef5000
| | Posted on Thursday, November 06, 2008 - 12:01 pm: |
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4300k IS the brightest, and whitest.
Many sites sell 4300k kits, such as the 'big bad and dirty' approved kit from vvme.com. (Which is the kit I have in my car, my bike, and I installed in my buddies car. |
Spacecapsule1
| | Posted on Thursday, November 06, 2008 - 01:32 pm: |
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will that bi-xenon kit work? |
Mikef5000
| | Posted on Thursday, November 06, 2008 - 01:40 pm: |
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It will not work without custom mounting the bulbs and rewiring the whole shebang.
I'm not super pleased with my bixenon kit. |
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