HID'S, lookin for nite pictures Options

[kCed]

im thinkin bout gettin some hids, but i was just wondering how they would look in our housing!

as in how bright they are and if theyre gonna blind the oncomin drivers!

so please post some pics of them and where you got them if it possible..thanks guys and gals

[Culpable04]

Hey culpable

I'm not exactly sure you are correct about the HID's. They may infact be physically hotter than stock bulbs but your argument doesn't hold. The 6000K reference is "color temperature" and not physical temperature.

"Technically, color temperature refers to the temperature to which one would have to heat a theoretical "black body" source to produce light of the same visual color."

Which is this case means nothing. See this article.

http://www.schorsch.com/kbase/glossary/cct.html

Later all!

this is taken from the articule you just post

Technically, color temperature refers to the temperature to which one would have to heat a theoretical "black body" source to produce light of the same visual color.


the temperature is the heat need to produce the color, for example, in a fire you can see diferent color depending on the temp of it, the regular yellow is the coldest point of heat and as you increase the oxigen charge to a fire the flames will turn in the following order yellow to green to blue and some gases can burn colorless ( methanol )

an HID kit has novel gases inside the bulb that react with the electricity ( acting as heat source ) to produce the color of choice.

that's the way I think it is, probably I'm wrong so any other info is well taken.




This post has been edited by Culpable04: Feb 7, 2007 - 9:36 PM

[phonex98]

this is taken from the articule you just post

Technically, color temperature refers to the temperature to which one would have to heat a theoretical "black body" source to produce light of the same visual color.


the temperature is the heat need to produce the color, for example, in a fire you can see diferent color depending on the temp of it, the regular yellow is the coldest point of heat and as you increase the oxigen charge to a fire the flames will turn in the following order yellow to green to blue and some gases can burn colorless ( methanol )

an HID kit has novel gases inside the bulb that react with the electricity ( acting as heat source ) to produce the color of choice.

that's the way I think it is, probably I'm wrong so any other info is well taken.

The HID's are NOT a black body source. They are xenon gas, which does not follow teh same temp:heat ratio of this black body. Heres some more readings:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_temperature

"However, many other light sources, such as fluorescent lamps, do not emit radiation in the form of a black-body curve, and are assigned what is known as a correlated color temperature (CCT), which is the color temperature of a black body which most closely matches the lamp's perceived color"

What im saying is that unless you have this black body, Temperature does not equal color temperature. So if I still haven't convinced you this informal argument might help.


The sun is 5770 K
The xenon bulbs i have are 8000 K

According to your arguments my bulbs are in fact physically hotter than the sun. How does that not melt the housing