Halo Fogs With Hids

[jay_russell]

well have finished putting in my turbo this week and got the last bits finished on the car. put in my custom made fogs with new 8000 hids in aswell as hids for main and dip beam.

and a little video of it running. will be getting the exhaust finished this week and mapping finished before the weekend

[Ian Sartoria]

Really, really nice dude. Put me in two minds as to what lights i want now :S

[fjcfarrar]

well have finished putting in my turbo this week and got the last bits finished on the car. put in my custom made fogs with new 8000 hids in aswell as hids for main and dip beam. will be getting the exhaust finished this week and mapping finished before the weekend

The Halo HID fogs look good, and it is nice to see effort put into making custom parts. However, there are 2 things to consider.

(1) Here in the UK it is illegal to run foglamps when there is no fog/mist and bright HIDs make it a bit obvious - although just the Halos on may be OK.

(2) When it is actually foggy, HID fog-lamps are virtually useless. The colour-temperature of ALL HIDs provide a blueish light which is almost totally reflected by fog giving a really bright wall of light instead of a view ahead. The opposite, Amber/Yellow light gives the best penetration in fog (one of the reasons for sodium streetlighting)!!

[jay_russell]

i know but we get more snow here than fog and the halo rings are 8000 aswell so even without the fogs on they are very good. i just wanted them to be the same colour and look as the rest

[ormi]

well have finished putting in my turbo this week and got the last bits finished on the car. put in my custom made fogs with new 8000 hids in aswell as hids for main and dip beam. will be getting the exhaust finished this week and mapping finished before the weekend

The Halo HID fogs look good, and it is nice to see effort put into making custom parts. However, there are 2 things to consider.

(1) Here in the UK it is illegal to run foglamps when there is no fog/mist and bright HIDs make it a bit obvious - although just the Halos on may be OK.

(2) When it is actually foggy, HID fog-lamps are virtually useless. The colour-temperature of ALL HIDs provide a blueish light which is almost totally reflected by fog giving a really bright wall of light instead of a view ahead. The opposite, Amber/Yellow light gives the best penetration in fog (one of the reasons for sodium streetlighting)!!

eh??not all hid light is blue,blue/white it all goes on the temp...

12k purple

10k blue

8k blue/white

6k white

43k white/yellow

3k yellow........................................

[sparkystav]

well have finished putting in my turbo this week and got the last bits finished on the car. put in my custom made fogs with new 8000 hids in aswell as hids for main and dip beam. will be getting the exhaust finished this week and mapping finished before the weekend

The Halo HID fogs look good, and it is nice to see effort put into making custom parts. However, there are 2 things to consider.

(1) Here in the UK it is illegal to run foglamps when there is no fog/mist and bright HIDs make it a bit obvious - although just the Halos on may be OK.

(2) When it is actually foggy, HID fog-lamps are virtually useless. The colour-temperature of ALL HIDs provide a blueish light which is almost totally reflected by fog giving a really bright wall of light instead of a view ahead. The opposite, Amber/Yellow light gives the best penetration in fog (one of the reasons for sodium streetlighting)!!

Not quite right, its because they are low cost and long life.

also: http://www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/ASF5/593.html

[fjcfarrar]

well have finished putting in my turbo this week and got the last bits finished on the car. put in my custom made fogs with new 8000 hids in aswell as hids for main and dip beam. will be getting the exhaust finished this week and mapping finished before the weekend

The Halo HID fogs look good, and it is nice to see effort put into making custom parts. However, there are 2 things to consider.

(1) Here in the UK it is illegal to run foglamps when there is no fog/mist and bright HIDs make it a bit obvious - although just the Halos on may be OK.

(2) When it is actually foggy, HID fog-lamps are virtually useless. The colour-temperature of ALL HIDs provide a blueish light which is almost totally reflected by fog giving a really bright wall of light instead of a view ahead. The opposite, Amber/Yellow light gives the best penetration in fog (one of the reasons for sodium streetlighting)!!

eh??not all hid light is blue,blue/white it all goes on the temp...

12k purple

10k blue

8k blue/white

6k white

43k white/yellow

3k yellow........................................

HIDs with colour temperatures giving yellowish light are not freely available - and because of fundamental technical constraints are much less efficient (less light per watt) than conventional bulbs because they attempt to filter through the minimal yellow component of the spectral output which is fundamentally bluish-white.

[fjcfarrar]

[(2) When it is actually foggy, HID fog-lamps are virtually useless. The colour-temperature of ALL HIDs provide a blueish light which is almost totally reflected by fog giving a really bright wall of light instead of a view ahead. The opposite, Amber/Yellow light gives the best penetration in fog (one of the reasons for sodium streetlighting)!!

Not quite right, its because they are low cost and long life.

What you say is true, but there are other even cheaper long life discharge lamps which are no longer used for street-lighting because they do not penetrate fog/mist as well. It still remains fact that HID fogs might look good, but don't work as well as the original filament bulbs.

[ormi]

HIDs with colour temperatures giving yellowish light are not freely available - and because of fundamental technical constraints are much less efficient (less light per watt) than conventional bulbs because they attempt to filter through the minimal yellow component of the spectral output which is fundamentally bluish-white.

contacted 4 hid companys inc hid4u and if i wanted i can get 3k bulbs ie yellow delivered next day!!!!! so i think they are very freely available...