HID conversion kit?

[SneaKe]

I like having extremely bright white and powerful lights. I live out in the dark and scary woods on a mountain, so the brighter the better. The 06 xenon headlamps are nice, but not bright enough for my taste. I'm thinking of purchasing a HID conversion kit for the H1 bulb in my fog-lights.

Anyone have experience with this? Need to know if this works, any modification needed, and safety of the product (Fire bad).

Also, any kit recommendations would be helpful. There are LOTS out there.
Modified by SneaKe at 8:44 PM 6/16/2008

[C-Kwik]

http://www.danielsternlighting....html

[SneaKe]

All good information that I've already read, but thank you. I am looking to covert my fog lamps, for the exact results your link shows. I need a close blanket of bright light for the area I live in. I have my xenon projections for distance, and for city/highway driving.

So back to my question. Anyone?

[smockers83]

I drive a lot in wooded areas, my stock HIDs work just fine. I probably see twice as many deer as other people. Making the foreground brighter makes it harder to see down the road, they won't provide a beam pattern that will help you, and will be functionally useless (for your purpose) at speeds greater than 25 MPH.

[C-Kwik]

If you're just looking to essentially flood the area with light, you might consider just using your high beam. The beam pattern of a typical automotive high beam is a little higher and broader, perhaps a little brighter with halogens, but ultimately, the proportion of distance lighting to foreground lighting will be much better than simply flooding whatever is in front of you.

A flood light will light up everything. Most particularly, the foreground. Which may seem like what you want (and most people percieve this as brighter lighting), but consider that it may actually hurt your distance vision more as your pupils will constrict from all the foreground lighting. As the level of light in the distance will be diminished at a rate proportional to the square of the distance, your eyes will have a hard time seeing what is up ahead. And last I checked, the further ahead you can see a hazard, the better your chances of avoiding the hazard. By contrast, the sun lights up everything much more evenly (since the sun is about the same distance from any object you can see from your car) so distant objects are much easier to see than with a floodlight which projects from your location.

In any case, any lighting solutions should be well calculated to put the right amount of light exactly where you need it. In your case, if you need to light up the foreground just a bit more, and can afford to lose a little distance vision, you should look for just enough lighting to just the foreground or perhaps lighting the foreground with a proportional increase in the distance lighting. Perhaps even with some level of cutoff so you're not lighting up the tops of trees as that will cause your pupils to constrict more while lighting areas you really don't need to see (unless you like birdwatching at night). Frankly, the factory halogen fog light would probably pull this off much better than what you intend to do.

[CYO44Baseball32]

http://www.xexon-vision.com I got mine from there and they really increase my vision driving.