Installed HID's yesterday
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gotta love hid's! best mod for the buck...!
I know im going to feel so stupid when i find out what i means but what does "HID" stand for?
I installed them the other day as well except i think something is fudged with mine. Everytime i turn it on after the car has sat for a few hours both begin to come on and then either the drivers or passenger wont come on, only one comes on . . . Im like wtf. If i turn it off and turn it back on then both come on. I first thought it was the passenger side ballast b/c thats the only one that needed a refire, but today its the drivers side. Im so ****ed, it took me so long to run the wires and do everything so it could never be seen. 30min install with 3m tape took me 5 hours cause its done that good . . . I dont wanna be ripping stuff out.
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High intensity discharge.
High Intensity Discharge ? :shrug:
The new blue-ish headlights are using a different technology called High Intensity Discharge (HID). We normally see HID lamps in the form of mercury vapor and sodium vapor lights used as street lamps and as outdoor lighting for stadiums. These lamps are popular because they are efficient. In the case of sodium vapor, they are twice as efficient as normal fluorescent bulbs.
Mercury and sodium vapor lamps produce light using a technique similar to that used in fluorescent lamps. In fluorescent lamps a low-pressure mercury vapor produces lots of ultraviolet light that excites a phosphor coating the tube. In the case of mercury vapor lamps, it is a high-pressure gas, the distance between the electrodes is very short and the light is produced directly without the need for the phosphor.
In the case of HID headlights, the same high-pressure technology is used. The lamp is similar to a mercury vapor lamp. However, designers of the headlights had to solve one problem with normal mercury vapor lamps -- the fact that they have long start-up times. Xenon helps solve the start-up problem, as does a special controller. All of these tricks mean that these headlights are expensive now, but mass production should bring the cost down eventually
Mercury and sodium vapor lamps produce light using a technique similar to that used in fluorescent lamps. In fluorescent lamps a low-pressure mercury vapor produces lots of ultraviolet light that excites a phosphor coating the tube. In the case of mercury vapor lamps, it is a high-pressure gas, the distance between the electrodes is very short and the light is produced directly without the need for the phosphor.
In the case of HID headlights, the same high-pressure technology is used. The lamp is similar to a mercury vapor lamp. However, designers of the headlights had to solve one problem with normal mercury vapor lamps -- the fact that they have long start-up times. Xenon helps solve the start-up problem, as does a special controller. All of these tricks mean that these headlights are expensive now, but mass production should bring the cost down eventually
here are a few pics of the new HID install. i retained both high and low beam functionality. kit was plug and play from americanmuscle.com
all pics are with low beams on
What's the temprature on those?? Are they 8000k?
Maybe it's just the camera setup in the first picture, but that looks terrible. No beam control, just a bright ass flood light. It's gonna blind the crap out of approaching cars.
Like I said, it could be due to the camera, but it's just my opinion.
Like I said, it could be due to the camera, but it's just my opinion.
I'm pretty sure that's just the camera.
+1 That looks like a stock housing to me. If it is, it'll be glare city not to mention illegal.
what are you doing for the fogs?
HID's in the stock housing FTMFL. You will blind so many damn people with that.
Could be the angle or camera cause i haven't seen headlights that blind me while im driviing at all.. maybe i dont pay attention or doesnt bother me...idk HAHA but nice HID's tho but dont think ima go for the high/low kit when its HID's already...have to be bright enough.... are you getting matching fogs as well?
i don't have the fog lights in my car. the install is really easy. they are 8000K. the picture is the camera. its crappy and I adjusted the headlights tonight and drove behind a friend and also coming back at them and they said they weren't blinded. the kit is from americanmuscle.com
pretty sure it's not, i had 6500's on my mach, stock housing, no cutoff what so ever, more of a floral pattern than anything, either get some projectors or ditch em, seeing the hids i had on my mach and now with my audi a6, it's night and day
Mine really don't glare at all, the oem housing were a little worse but with the smoked lenses from american muscle the cutoff is pretty sharp and the light scatters rather nicely....
Low beams....
High Beams.....
Low beams....
High Beams.....
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