Boris, I have to say that is a very nifty package you got there, looks like you spend some time and quite some bit of money investing in getting the packaging to fit the same size of the caps
very cool.
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Originally Posted by JediCoda
I've also heard that ballasts can run hot, but need air space to keep cool. I would imagine the back of the "cap" is metal and would act as a heat sink??? I'm only guessing at this though. I certainly hope no heat would be conducted to where it connects to the headlamp as I think this would result in deformation of the plastic fitting.
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No worries about deformation of the plastic housing. I heat up headlight housings up to 250F degrees for 10 mins. every day to work on them. If you start getting above 250 with force then the plastic will start to deform.
Also most HID ballast don't generate heat but instead the bulb itself gets hot... but the halogen bulb gets hot too =P. The only time an HID ballast REQUIRES a heatsink is when you crank up the wattage from the stock 35w to up to 100w as I've done in my first designs.
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Originally Posted by joey17
boris can you help me out or someone on here? from what i here/understand hid lights do not go well with progector lights yes i no i spelld that wrong sorry. i thought that the beam or somthing like that didnt work well and didnt spred enough light like side to side light and things of that nature. thanks
joe
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Hid kits in general are illegal and are a danger to other drivers as well as the driver themselves in the case that... headlight housings designed for halogen were never ment to control the 3x amount of light ouput from an HID bulb. With that said it does vary to some degree such as.. a HID kit inside a honda civic with a free form reflector setup can generate some crazy glare to oncoming driver which poses a safety issue... and the light is all over the place and not on the ground where it's suppose to be for the driver's safety. I know of someone who died because they were pulling out of a parking lot and another car hit them because they couldn't see this car pulling out due to another vehicle heading in the opposite direction with a very bright HID kit installed.
4300k is the temp closest to natural sunlight, it's what we precieve as color during around noon time if you use the light to shine it onto an object at night. It's also the only color temp that puts out the most amount of light in lumens "lm". Anything higher such as 5000, 6000, 7000k you start going away from the visible light spectrum and unless your a bat, the light output would start to decrease. ALL factory oem vehicles with HID comes with 4300k such as the 85122 bulbs from Philips.
As far as the smart car goes, they use a HELLA halogen projector which... in most cases is "okay" for an HID kit but not perfect as there's an opening in the cut off shield that allows stray light to shine above the cut off line. This is to allow the halogen bulb to illumuniate people and street signs overhead, with an HID bulb in there, this little amount of light that normally wouldn't bother someone becomes 3 times more light output.
And you are correct a proper HID projector is more optimized and would put out more light on the ground and/or have a wider light spread.
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