Just an idea. I'm not very good at wiring.

 

I bought that kit and still actually have it on my truck but have it unhooked. I just never removed it fully. I had nothing but problems with it. I forgot exactly what it did but it was something like my high beams stayed on all the time until I turned the fog lights off and back on or something. I can't remember what but it was really weird. I even tried rewiring a plug to see if I could get it right. I finally put it back how it was and just went back to the normal wiring. I've heard people that don't have fog lights say that kit worked fine though. It was something where my fog lights were making it act up. I have the OEM fog lights btw that came on the truck from the dealer.

I ended up just getting a set of Nokya plug and play headlight harness things that you plug into the headlight plug then into the actual bulb. The connectors on it are supposed to be able to hold up to the heat of the high wattage ones. Now they don't have relays or anything like that so they aren't near as good but they actually work with the setup I have so I've just used those.

 

[quote=charlie1935;1893500]Sylvania is the "walmart" brand of bulbs now-a-days. Sort of like the Champion brand of spark plug... they used to be #1, then tried to mass market themselves and lost their quality.

Every Sylvania bulb I've ever purchased has failed on me within a year, with the exception of SilverStars/Ultras. I got rid of them, simply, because GE Nighthawks and Phillips (I think they're called TruVision or something along those lines) are brighter for less money.

I have finally settled on a pair of Toucan bulbs (good company) called Eurolites for my headlights and a pair of 100w Nokyas for my fogs. The headlights are 80w low beams, 100w high beams.

Only reason I can run them safely is because my fogs aren't stock (custom wiring job, done by yours truly) and I also rewired my headlamps to use relays.

Thats what I did, after reading HomeTheaterMan's nightmare store about the LMC unit. Granted, I don't have factory fogs like he does, but still.

Here are some pics to help with the whole Kelvin scale thing. BTW, its 5600k that is the best (pure sunlight), not 5400k, hence why I like 6000k lights.

 

[quote=jasonw;1894357]The first one is a poor representation due to the fact that the improper contrast of the image is clearly visible. The second image is was obviously manipulated in photoshop.

Color temperature will different across all monitors, and to all camera's. A quick google of "6000k" will reveal a multitude of variance. The color 6k is shown as white, to blue, to white again.
http://images.google.com/images?q=60...N&hl=en&tab=wi

 

Who cares if 6000k shows up differently between my monitor and yours, or my camera and yours? While monitors and cameras and etc. do vary in their representations of 6000k, a true 6000k light will be the best for visibility, and when seen with the naked human eye, will be a nice, bright white.

The pics give a good general idea of color differences between temps, thats all they were meant to be.

5600k-6000k will give you the whitest light and best visibility for headlamps. You will usually want to go a little lower for fogs, since yellower lamps tend to do better in bad weather conditions.

 

No, it wont...

If it was, car headlights would all be that color. But they aren't. Halogen is around 3900K I think, and OEM HID is 4300k, 100% of the time.

 

Halogen is actually about 3000K. And thats not because it is the best, but because thats about as good as Halogen gets without going to higher wattages or coating the bulbs ("faking" the appearance of higher K).

5600k-6000k is my preference when paired with higher wattages, but at stock wattage, you are correct, I misspoke. 4300k is what most stock HID systems are set at and the 4200k-5000k is considered the best at around 3200 to 3000 lumens (respectively), however, you are incorrect about the "100% of the time".

The Nissan 350z's HIDs, for example, comes with 6000k bulbs.

 

D2 base bulbs only come at about 4300k. The 350Z does not come with 6000k. I just checked sylvania.

 

what we are all forgetting here is also the reflectors and such that focus the beam... a bulb used in a high end car is focused different then one used in a miata...

 

Whhatttt???

Miata's are offered with HID's btw.