Originally posted by JiggaFan
here's what I'm saying. I don't know much about light output physics, but here goes.
9006: 30 lumens @ 0 degrees; 5 lumens @ 5 degrees (above horizontal)
9005: 60 lumens @ 0 degrees; 30 lumens @ 5 degrees (b/c of different 9005 housing aiming)
9005 in 9006 housing: 60 lumens @ 0 degrees; 10 lumens @ 5 degrees (above horizontal).
So what you have done is double the amount of light coming straight at me (which isn't much of a problem for another passenger car behind/approaching me). But you have also doubled the amount of light shining in an upward angle--the light that usually ends up in my rear/side view mirrors OR in my eyes.
So there's nothing wrong with doubling the light, right?
And to the Penn dude--that's what hight beams are for. You should have to switch them on when you need them. Then switch them off when you don't. Or is it tooo much for you to reach over to the signal light lever to pull it towards you. oh wait, you're probably one of those people who don't use signal lights, either. You see, the thing about high beams is that you can actually switch them off when traffic is approaching OR you are approaching another car travelling the same direction (although alot of people don't know this).
On the other hand, I hardly ever use my high beams for driving. And I've logged over 100k miles in 3 years on my Accord. Been driving through the mountains of WV and VA's I-77 highway.
Maybe if you guys kept your faces out of the stupid box, your sight wouldn't be soooo bad.
ok first off, you're you're talking about wanna be high dollar cars, let's take a look at yours. You put shocks and spring on, why? to handle as if it was something other than an accord. You put an obnoxious system in..why? so you can be cool an annoy people at stoplights. I won't even touch on your wanna be big boller picture on your web site. So what's a little more light coming out of someone's headlights. I have HID in my stock housings right now, and have yet to be high beamed. I live up in the mountains, and putting my high beams on doesn't do the trick, putting more light on the ground right in front of the car helps me tremendously, I can see the wet spots, dips in the road, and anything else that I may need to avoid. If they're aimed right they work great and don't hurt others
Ok second, I wish I was in Souf Carolina too, cuz you'd whip out your 3 cell mag light, and I'd whip out my 10 million candle power spot light and run you off the road.
Lasty since you seem to think you are educated spitting out principles of light refraction, let'f first get our numbers straight. Hb4(9006) is 1100 lumens, Hb3(9005) is 1900 lumens, however the luminosity of the 9005 would be severely restricted in the low beam housing due to the fact that there's a shield in the way making a clean cutoff.(just to point out, 4300k d2s is 3200 lumens, d2r is 2800lumens, exact same bulb with a shield on it, go figure). With a decent cutoff and aimed correctly. At 0° I'd be willing to bet there's less than 5 lumens of bleeding from the shield, by 5 to 10 degrees I'd say less than 1 lumen. So your crying and *****ing is moot. If you really want to crunch numbers I'll borrow some equipmet from a friend when I get back from back from overseas next month. The biggest problem with HID is the color, which the NTSC has also found to be true. You're so used to the yellow lamps going along that you pay no attention to them, but when cool blue headlamps come around you look at them. This same prolem happened when Halogen first came to use, jackasses would look straight at the beam and wonder why they couldn't see. Same thing with HID.
this is a properly aimed hid setup, and I even oversaturated the picture to show how little bleeding there is, I also have it aimed 6" down at 20 feet.
this is a philips 4300k d2r setup, with cheap blue fogs in OEM housings(some of the bleeding is because of the chrome on the headlight housings, some of it is refraction off of the other walls of the carport(well actually it's a boat port, the white thing I'm shining on)
but never fear in the quest for better lighting l'm in the middle of installing hella HID projectors in a spare set of housings I have.