I need brighter lights but not the bright blue hid
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You'll actually want your lights to be somewhat yellow, as light with a higher color temperature doesn't offer very good inclement weather visibility. On wet roadways, ZXE's and the like are terrible for visibility. I take it a step further, and have installed fog light bulbs that put out selective yellow light, but that's just me.
#12
And therein lies the rub: a white or whiteish output doesn't mean it's the brightest output. In fact, often times the coatings used to achieve that color will actually reduce the light output of the bulb.
You'll actually want your lights to be somewhat yellow, as light with a higher color temperature doesn't offer very good inclement weather visibility. On wet roadways, ZXE's and the like are terrible for visibility. I take it a step further, and have installed fog light bulbs that put out selective yellow light, but that's just me.
You'll actually want your lights to be somewhat yellow, as light with a higher color temperature doesn't offer very good inclement weather visibility. On wet roadways, ZXE's and the like are terrible for visibility. I take it a step further, and have installed fog light bulbs that put out selective yellow light, but that's just me.
Last edited by Best4x4; 01-19-2016 at 11:16 AM.
#14
Biggest thing around here lately is rednecks running around at night with 52inch light bars on, that ARE NOT aimed low or at all causing you feel like your driving into the sun....
Back when I had a Jeep Wrangler I messed with HID's, but once I got the setup good the darn ballast would act up. I finally dropped 1k into some JW Speaker 8700's and omg it was amazing!!! You could see everything!! Well worth the $$$ because around here in TX lots of animals from deer to a cow can just walk right out into the road at night!! If I had the time and $$$ I'd do a JW LED conversion into a D1/D2.
Only issue I had with the JW's was if u had to winch at night you'd have to turn em off and run aux lights or fogs because the JW's would flicker like a disco show. Maybe they've fixed that, but besides that they were truly amazing. When I now drive my H3, D1, or D2 I'm like geez lol.
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