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DDM Tuning Apexcone Raptor HID Kit - $30 plus shipping
- Thread starter Matt V
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Could be a short somewhere or a bad ground. Check all of your connections and the grounds on your relay harness, make sure the grounds are touching bare metal wherever they are attached to on the chassis.
Everything looks good as far as connections. I'm wondering if I installed the harness correctly. There is no splicing of wires correct? From what I read with other HID wiring harnesses, there should be a plug that goes into your OEM bulb connection to get the signal to power up the bulbs. I just had the spades that come with the HID bulb plugged directly into the OEM bulb connection.
ok so my brother think the higher u go in the Ks , the more light output u get ... i say that the more light output is around 5 to 6ks since the colour of the light is at its best for the ddm ones. anyone have an scientific explanation for that ? thanks.
Both of you guys are wrong. Firstly, the lower the Kelvin temperature, the more yellow your light will be and the more light will be output, and the cooler the bulbs will be the lower you go. As opposite of that, the higher the Kelvin output, the more blue the light will be and thus you lose more light, and the bulb will be hotter as you go up.
The most light comes from a 3000k bulb in terms of lumen output, the "best looking color" has nothing to do with it. The closer the color of the bulb is to actual sunlight, the brighter it will be. A perfect example is a fire flame that is yellow as opposed to the flame that is blue (the yellow flame is cooler but outputs more light, the blue flame is hotter but outputs less light).
Also, bad choice on the HID high beam kit.
The most light comes from a 3000k bulb in terms of lumen output, the "best looking color" has nothing to do with it. The closer the color of the bulb is to actual sunlight, the brighter it will be. A perfect example is a fire flame that is yellow as opposed to the flame that is blue (the yellow flame is cooler but outputs more light, the blue flame is hotter but outputs less light).
Also, bad choice on the HID high beam kit.
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Both of you guys are wrong. Firstly, the lower the Kelvin temperature, the more yellow your light will be and the more light will be output, and the cooler the bulbs will be the lower you go. As opposite of that, the higher the Kelvin output, the more blue the light will be and thus you lose more light, and the bulb will be hotter as you go up.
The most light comes from a 3000k bulb in terms of lumen output, the "best looking color" has nothing to do with it. The closer the color of the bulb is to actual sunlight, the brighter it will be. A perfect example is a fire flame that is yellow as opposed to the flame that is blue (the yellow flame is cooler but outputs more light, the blue flame is hotter but outputs less light).
Also, bad choice on the HID high beam kit.
so i have 5000ks and he bought 8000k .. so technicaly , the 5000ks have more light output than a 8000k ?
and y is the 6000ks a bad choice ?
thx
The 5000k puts out more light because the color is closer to that of sunlight, which will be brighter. The lower the Kelvin the brighter it will be.
6000k is awfully blue, plus you put them in your high beams. High beams for HID's are a bad idea because the bulb needs sufficient time to warm up and with high beams you most likely won't have them on long enough to get fully warmed up, thus causing the bulbs and ballasts to prematurely fail. It's never a good idea to put HID's in the high beam area unless you have bi-xenon projectors like I do in which the bulb is shared.
6000k is awfully blue, plus you put them in your high beams. High beams for HID's are a bad idea because the bulb needs sufficient time to warm up and with high beams you most likely won't have them on long enough to get fully warmed up, thus causing the bulbs and ballasts to prematurely fail. It's never a good idea to put HID's in the high beam area unless you have bi-xenon projectors like I do in which the bulb is shared.
wrkngmanByTor
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well I don't know the science but I do recall reading on one of the hid lighting guides that 4300k gives the highest visible light output. Apparently that's what all the auto manufacturers use for stock lighting. I'm thinking that colour temp. is probably right in the middle of the range of what the human eye can see?? Jump in anybody if you can explain it better.
ohh yea some one grilled me for saying i was buying highs. but where we live theres alot of mooses and not a whole lot of cars on the hiway and we dont have 2 lane hiway before 2hours south. and my low beams stays on with my hi beams ( i dont know if ur US specs car does that ) and i bypassed the daytime running light module.
is it just me or there a small difference in colour between both lo beams bulbs ?
is it just me or there a small difference in colour between both lo beams bulbs ?
wrkngmanByTor
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Yeah, i thing the 3000k is better for fog/rain because it gives off less glare. The trade off is a little bit less visible light, but not enough to outweigh the advantage.
If there is a color difference, it's because the bulbs these kits come with are Chinese and have no quality control. It's normal to get odd color matching/output. I suggest getting some quality D2S bulbs and using these adapters:
http://www.hidexpert.com/ph7_adapters.html
http://www.hidexpert.com/ph7_adapters.html
yup on the odd color matching/output... my drivers side light is just a tad bit yellow compared to my passengers side light which is the normal (what i ordered) blueish white...
maybe a normal person wouldn't care, but when you're half ocd about things like that...it does start to bother you...
maybe a normal person wouldn't care, but when you're half ocd about things like that...it does start to bother you...
Wagonbacker9
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I've noticed mine are just a tad different as well. one side is just a bit bluer.
Has anyone had any issues with these lights flickering? my 35w low beams wouldn't turn on today, and once I started driving, they turned on, but proceeded to randomly turn off then right back on a handful of times. They have been working perfectly for the last 2-3 weeks. I am using a wiring harness, so they are getting enough juice. Could it be a short somewhere?
Driving to work today on the freeway my lights cut out. Kind of scarey at 6am when its pretty much pitch black. Fortunately my DDM 3k fogs on a separate wiring harness continued to work.
I found that one of the connectors to the ballast on the DMM wiring harness was faulty. It seems that one of the wires going into the plug is not securely set. When bending the wire behind the plug my lights will flicker. I'm going to try and take it apart tonight to see if there is anything I can do.
since this has turned into the hid thread, i was wondering if i should get the ddm h4 hi/lo 6000ks or the 6000k in this http://www.hidxenonlights.com/mazda-mazda-protege-lights-c-643_86_263/agt-hid-conversion-kit-p-183
look at the picture of the bulb kind of at the left midway down the page
look at the picture of the bulb kind of at the left midway down the page
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