This is by far the best breakdown of Wattage vs Temperature color Vs Lumen explanation i've seen on youtube. Learn something vital before ordering my 4300K bulb today. Great job man.
I will go for 4300k because of it is white with a yellowish hint and it is good light output. I ordered some bid from my friend and i asked for 5000k but it seems like 6000k. Ill be replacing my bulb from 6000k to 4300k.
Agreed. I don't even need headlights or drive, but color temperatures are cool. For reference, an incandescent is 2700 K, while daylight is 5000 K. In the future, maybe headlights could use LEDs or HIDs that can change color depending on outdoor conditions, with a computer that can change the wattage on demand.
Great video! In my experience, using a 6000k bulb in a rainy night on a dark poorly marked road is almost as using candles, you can see nothing. I switched to 4300k and this color worked very well in all weather conditions.
Carlos Daudet yes I had 6000k and it was good during dry weather but For snow and rain I couldn’t see anything. I got rebased philips bulbs and they are 4800k on a hylux 45w ballast so I’m not sure what the color would be
After watching this video I think 4300 K HID with a combination of 35 watt ballast is the best. Because it's produces natural day light with best visibility in all seasons. So I must go for it next. Thanks Bro for making this wonderful video.
It is and always use name brand lights. Do not use these cheap Chinese lights they dont get as bright tand the rating is off. I bought 5K and it was more like 6K after 2 mos i spent the extra $ and got Xenarx 4300K I could not stand them!
Very informative video. On my wife's car I installed a 35w ballast to a 6k bulb. The color was a white with bluish tint. A couple of months later I changed out the ballast to a 55w but kept the same bulb. It turned to a super white color but with no hint of blue.
I think you should've mentioned the usefulness of a 3000k setup during inclement weather and how it cuts through rain and fog unlike the higher kelvin colors. And sure the lux meter said it's the dimmest but the longer wavelengths are easier for the human eye to pick up causing less fatigue and making it look brighter than the other colors in real life driving situations
We were thinking of making that topic an entirely different video. Can't cover every single topic in one video, we try to stick to one theme at a time. But yes, you're 100% right! Good suggestion and good info.
Its clean because Natural Sunlight is 5800K. Yellow light is Trash Light. Humans Prefer the closest possible light color to 5800 Kelvin. That is Biological FACT!
Really glad you made this video, only one thing remain with big questionmark... Temperatures... how they change inside a headlight, how to protect from overheating and melting reflector and etc...! ALSO include explanation of AC / DC voltage -difference, again color temperature changing... etc !
I have been using the 55w 4300k HID well over 4 years. it shines like daylight even during stormy lights. definitely the best HID i have. The only problem was my reflector seemed to oxidize faster.
Hey Chris... Great video Bro! Just to let you know that the HUMMER H3 STARR HID Projector Kit that I bought from you over three years ago still looks AWESOME! These babies get better by the day or should I say night! Anyway, thank you so much for such a great product and customer service! Thumbs up from me on this video... Stay safe... Rico
I'm so helpless when it's comes to technical stuff on mechanics...albeit this is not a complex one...you helped me choose the exact colour I wanted for my lexus. Ended up going for the 6000k with 55w ballasts. However my partner has since written off that car😫😤 so bought a new (2nd hand) one yesterday, and thinking of actually going for the 8000k with 55w ballasts to get that diamond white look of the 6000k 35w, with the added brightness due to the 55w ballasts I'll be using instead. Thank you so much for helping me choose
6:15 The answer- 4300k bulb @55watt ballast will give the maximum brightness. However if you want to go with 35watt ballast, 5000k bulb will be the brightest.(obviously less brighter than 55watt ballast)
Higher LUX does not mean better rendering. The reason you want to stick to 4000-5000 K is because that is the collor range your eye is able to resolve the most details. All these dummies with bright blue headlights are doing is dazzeling themselves with a reflected light and actually end up seeinl less! Ever tried to find something on the floor under an ultraviolet light?
Speaking to the wrong crowd. Scientific evidence, DOT and IIHS all say this but these guys and their customers simply don't care. That pain in their eyeballs means it's better, period.
I guess you didn't watch the video. Natural Sunlight is 5800 Kelvin. Closest to 6000 Kelvin. So......6000K is the best for Humans to see with, not 4000K or 5000K.
@@OfficialNakatsuMegami Natural sunlight in what conditions? Overcast? Direct sunlight? Scattered light in the atmosphere at noon or in the evening? At what lattitude? The reality is that we have all sorts of perceived "natural sunlight" throughout the day and around the world. Yet human eye works best within specific color ranges.
Awesome video. Very informative. Dont think a video out there explains it any better than this one. Appreciate you guys putting the time in this experiment kuz i dont have the time nor money to make this experiment happen.
This is wonderfully explained! I almost cringed in the beginning thinking you would say something misleading, but you got it on point! For people who aren't famililar with the science of it, you really did brrreak it down, kept it relevant and omitted overly technical terms. Great Job!
installed osram projector 4000k hid, Having problem in night while driving, can you please suggest good hid, should i go for morimoto, or change HID by 6000k Thanks
@@tomytimo6343 Morimoto XB50 5800K bulbs on XB55 ballasts, stupid bright in my G5-R retrofit, perfect white color. Brand to brand is going to differ but Morimoto is solid quality and honors warranties quick and easy.
Very informative and enlightening. I frequently use for my 2 vehicles a 10000k 35w hid bulbs but I all of them have a 55watt ballast for more brightness and the color goes down to 8000k which works for me all the time. A lot of 35 and 55 watt ballast are more often Over Rated, where it doesn't even come close to the stated wattage.
Sorry but the ballast is used to control the amount of power dissipated by the lamp. It doesn't "draw" anything but it will dissipate some of the power (heat) in the circuit. Modern switch mode ballasts are better than 90% efficient, that means 10% of the power is lost to the ballast, the rest is down to the lamp. Putting in a bigger ballast just means more energy is dissipated as heat with a resultant increase in brightness (and a change in colour it seems). For the record I have 55w HID's in my high beams and LED's for low beams. Both are about the same colour but the biggest annoyance is the delay in warm up of the HIDs.
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@@SamaritanElad watch the video again my dude. you use a 8000k bulb with a 55w ballast, it will be a little brighter and wash the color down to a 6000k.
Hi. I've been thinking of putting 3500 in my fog lights but seeing this video I realized that the max lux is very low. I would like to know if putting 4300 of 55w could reach that yellow color similar to 3500
There isn't much evidence to support this idea but it's easy to understand why someone would think they would. In our experience, it hasn't been a noticeable issue. The difference in life span is negligible.
@@theripper121 Over a long period of time, you may see discoloration, or one being dimmer than the other. In most cases, they fade off and go out. In others, they just die upon fire-up without a warning. It can be either or!
@@HeadlightRevolution Thanks for the fast reply. I have an older 16 year old vehicle with what Im guessing to be factory d2r HIDS. With that said I guess it wouldn't hurt to replace them and I might get a little bump in brightness out of it as well. Thanks.
@@HeadlightRevolution my jeep 8000k 55w still has a very slight yellow tinge to it clouds are white with a bluish tinge to them, at least the one's I'm staring at right now here in texas lol.
I have stock LED headlights on my 2021 Kia soul. They look really nice and have amazing light output. What I'd like to know though is what temp are the led bulbs on high end cars like Acura and their jewel eye headlights that make them seem purple at times?
@@HeadlightRevolution will the 55W ballast also burn the reflector housing? I was reading few reviews on the web wherein ppl had their reflector housing burned. Is this due to the wattage of the bulb or the ballast? Please guide on this…what is recommended?
I've been wanting to get an 8000k bulb with a 55 watt ballast for the best compromise between looks and brightness but from the research I've done a lot of places will say that the ballast is 55 watt but it's really not and I also worry about too much heat melting my projector housings. Any advice on what I should do?
Hey Colin! The ballasts we carry are truly 55 watt and we have also had no issues with melted projector housings. You just have to make sure everything is installed properly. Our support staff is here if you have any questions along the way.
Been using Philips xv gen 2 d2s 4800K bulbs with Hylux 35w ballast for over a couple of years now. Just ordered Lunex 8000K bulbs and Morimoto 55w ballast, hope I won't be dissapointed.
once I saw an HID that was 4800K marketed as Solar White.. and indeed was a Daylight color not too white not yellowish but as white as daylight really cool, can’t find them.
I have some Osram D2S nightbreakers on some 55w ballasts and the colour was not far off a standard halogen. I swapped to a pair of Osram CBI's and the colour looks far better. Maybe around the 4300k mark but I did wish they were closer to 5000k
Yes , I bought the D2S NB expecting some pure White color but they are kind of yellowish even at normal 35w . It doesnt look bad but at least they light very well
If you live in a place where it rains a lot you definitely want something with a little warmer color. Anything above 5k seems to disappear on wet surfaces.
Man I have gone deep down a rabbit hole. My 6k bulbs on old ballast were blue. I switched to a older beefy ballast no name but ballast had heat sync and burns all blue out to nice bright white. Both are supposed to be 35w ballast tho. I even tried to upgrade and use some cheap 55w ballast but they are obviously not more like 35w. Recently bought hylux 45w ballast 100 for the pair hoping they are perfect.
Best Video yet. My GL450 Original lighting HID Xenon, Is still crap after new bulbs Philips. What's the solution? New Projectors? New Ballasts? Truck just turned 150,000 miles I opened the Lens and the projector has crazy crappy wiring inside. Also the worm gear for steering controls. I cleaned the projector and put back. Thanks for your help.
Glad you found this video helpful, thanks for commenting! I would honestly say that your next best bet would be to replace the ballasts, they can definitely wear down over time! I will need you to get me the year of that vehicle, and then I can find the correct replacement ballast for you!
For that vehicle, you will need to get some of the Hella Replacement ballasts, and I have linked those for you below! Let us know if you need anything else, we are here to help! Link: www.headlightrevolution.com/oe-replacement-hella-5dv00829000-B-BL170_2?quantity=1
thanks! ive tried led and they dont like my h7 housing cars so i gotta get new hids for now! Phillips LED in the silverados right now tho is the best hands down!
Thank you very much Mister. I think the next parameters that also important, which methods should we choose to process the light, by reflection or refraction to produce the most effective pattern on the road surfaces.
I just recently bought 8000k HID headlights with 35 watt ballast I'm going to upgrade to 55 watt ballast and 10000k headlights to make it a little brighter
