Which REAL HID kit to get?
- Thread starter sixstringsteve
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While that would depend greatly on the design of the system, LED's still put out MUCH more heat than light. My 100 watt led pictured above probably turns 90 of those watts into heat and only 10 into light. The luminous efficiency of halogen headlights is more like 3-4%, with the newest, most efficient LEDs around 25%.
The heat produced by an LED is channeled into the semiconductor substrate which is coupled to a heatsink (usually in the back), where as the heat in a halogen bulb is of course radiating out in all directions, same as the light.
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clfrnacwby
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- NV
Just saw these on KSL - $49.99...not a bad price for 6k Xenon HID's...
http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=218&ad=22068577
http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=218&ad=22068577
sixstringsteve
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- UT
definitely cheap. unfortunately those are the ones that shoot light everywhere, including oncoming traffic's eyes.
rch
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- Colorado Springs
Check out Lightwerkz.net Not the cheapest of options, but one of the best ways to get a true hid and not blind all the other drivers.
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- Stinkwater
Definitely need to teach Steve how to get to camp while there's daylight left.
sixstringsteve
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- UT
I've heard it's nice. I'll have to try it sometime.
rch
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- Colorado Springs
Im pretty sure we all know that if our vehicle origionally had halogen bulbs and your upgrading to h.i.d.s, its going to be illegal.
As for the way they retrofit h.i.d.'s being unsafe, I'd have to disagree, if you send them a pair of head light housing to get retrofitted, the light patterns will be much safer than throwing hid bulbs in say.... trooper headlight housings. And is one of the more "safer" ways to upgrade to hid's.....