From what I've read, the higher the number, the less lumens you get as well as a higher temperature which means a shorter bulb life.

I've heard 4300K is the brightest and there is very little difference between 4000K and 6000K.......but after 6000K your luminesence starts to drop off the bluer/more purple you get......

Just what I've heard and read......don't have them myself, but will shortly......

 

The "k" stands for Kelvin, or temperature of the light. Bright mid day sun is about 5400k. Incadescent lighting is about 3400K (warmer light). I cannot envision 10,000K. Light output is dependent upon power which is wattage. The 6000K or above look blue as it is "cooler" color temperature.

The mention of the lower k for fog lights is probably correct as the warmer lighting color would not be just reflected from fog as the higher K lighting would do.

(just a professional freelance photographer's observation)

 

Here's mine. take the pic with a grain of salt. HTC Evo camera + night time + HIDs = bad picture that looks nothing like what the lights look like.

It's a VVME kit from ebay, cost ~$65 iirc

 

Holy dead thread batman! This was last touched in October of 2009...

 

Haha, don't blame me. I responded to a thread that had 2 recent posts from today and yesterday!

 

Yea, that was my bad......thought I clicked "Today's Posts" so I didn't look at his post date.....was just trying to give him what little knowledge I had about HID's.....

 

I have the 8K HIDs, and I can say that I have not had any problems with them what so ever. Both of my brothers have 8k as well, and one of them has run them for 2 or 3 years now in his del sol (lol). I bought mine at a local place, and I paid $60 for them. They are the "Tenton Lighting System" HIDS. I really like the look. Great bulbs. And for whoever is wondering, the Bi-Xenon blubs arent worth it.....yeah, you wont need high beams, lol.

 

Got link?

 

As I said I bought them from a local store, so unless you live in maryland- baltimore area you wont get those, I'm not sure if they sell the "tenon" brand online. Theyre all the same really, probably all come out of the same factory in china!

 

Well since this thread has been bumped, I will ask my question..LOL..I have a '94 Ram 1500 that I use as my daily..When I tried to order HID's for it sometime ago, DDM said that there was problems with using HID's in that year Ram.But I see here that people are having success in running them.

I have/had them in all my cars/trucks I have owned since the existence of aftermarket HID's. So am I good to go on the DDM for highs and fogs? Do we need a load balancer or anything outside of the kit? I know most kits now come with the load balancer built in.