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12-14-2006, 09:44 AM
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Originally Posted by olli_535d' post='365649' date='Dec 10 2006, 10:17 AM
They don't get better for lighting purposes if you go higher and higher. They rather get less effective in lighting out the road ahead.
Daylight is 5000K . the higher you go in the Kelvins, the more blue the light gets until it gets purple. The lower you go it turns from white into yellow into red.
Any Xenon headlights more than 6-7K will not give you any improvement in lighting out the road, really.
Daylight is 5000K . the higher you go in the Kelvins, the more blue the light gets until it gets purple. The lower you go it turns from white into yellow into red.
Any Xenon headlights more than 6-7K will not give you any improvement in lighting out the road, really.
And to all you kids who obviously think that higher numbers are better; you need to understand what the numbers mean. This is a measure of color, not power or quality or anything else for that matter. It means degrees Kelvin on a scale measuring blackbody radiation. In office environments you get lighting around 5000K, it's considered a warmer color and makes you feel happy. Higher values are bluer and considered cooler (temperature, not social status). Technically this conflicts with the blackbody meaurement scale, but it is what we are used to. Lights of those color temperatures will not help you and will only serve to make you look like an idiot and endanger other drivers who are blinded by your lights hitting a spectrum range and intensity that impacts their nightvision.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_temperature
From the chart there you can infer that you should not go above 8000K temperature or below the standard 4700K
12-14-2006, 10:36 AM
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Originally Posted by 525iSE' post='367376' date='Dec 14 2006, 02:09 PM
I dono why, but i can see them just fine. I'll post them again tomorrow or something.
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Originally Posted by olli_535d' post='365649' date='Dec 10 2006, 05:17 PM
They don't get better for lighting purposes if you go higher and higher. They rather get less effective in lighting out the road ahead.
Daylight is 5000K . the higher you go in the Kelvins, the more blue the light gets until it gets purple. The lower you go it turns from white into yellow into red.
Any Xenon headlights more than 6-7K will not give you any improvement in lighting out the road, really.
Daylight is 5000K . the higher you go in the Kelvins, the more blue the light gets until it gets purple. The lower you go it turns from white into yellow into red.
Any Xenon headlights more than 6-7K will not give you any improvement in lighting out the road, really.
I belive also in this.
I would add that a strong light also consumese the reflector more.
Too much!
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12-15-2006, 02:10 AM
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Originally Posted by 525iSE' post='367685' date='Dec 15 2006, 07:58 AM
Pics again... Hope you guys can see it..
I don't understand why, you guys cant see it.
I don't understand why, you guys cant see it.
And your avatar and sig picture are visible again.
12-15-2006, 02:19 AM
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Glad you guys can finally see it. As you can probably see, the top xenon (the headlights) and the fog lights, look different, eventhough they're the same temperature (K). So if you want them to look the same, get 2000K more for the headlight than the fog. So if you get 12000K fog, then get 14000K headlight, then it'll look pretty close. I'll repost the pics, once my new D2S bulbs arrive.
12-15-2006, 04:54 AM
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Originally Posted by 525iSE' post='367735' date='Dec 15 2006, 06:19 AM
Glad you guys can finally see it. As you can probably see, the top xenon (the headlights) and the fog lights, look different, eventhough they're the same temperature (K). So if you want them to look the same, get 2000K more for the headlight than the fog. So if you get 12000K fog, then get 14000K headlight, then it'll look pretty close. I'll repost the pics, once my new D2S bulbs arrive.
Some day you are going to pull up behind the wrong person with those blinding lights and get your car vandalized or your life shortened.
12-15-2006, 06:01 AM
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Originally Posted by Locksmythe' post='367778' date='Dec 15 2006, 08:54 PM
I read on one of the mod-shop sites that the lights take a long time to break in and will eventually give off the rated color temperature.
Some day you are going to pull up behind the wrong person with those blinding lights and get your car vandalized or your life shortened.
Some day you are going to pull up behind the wrong person with those blinding lights and get your car vandalized or your life shortened.
Note: I dont take comments on my life lightly because I feel like my life is not for people to comment on. Also, if you knew who I was, you would know that an attempt on my life is very close to impossible.