Yellow HID's

[turbo6]

Where can I get them?

[Mr1der]

don't please, they hurt my eyes!:D

I prefer the blue, they don't seem as brutal on the ol retina...

[Dano]

if u notice, all those cars with yellow lighting have yellow lenses too...

-Dan

[UncleBen]

Good eye.

I have no idea about any HIDs other than the blueish ones.

[NY94J30]

My bet is theyre not DOT approved

[silkk]

i like the purple-blueish ones you see on bmws

[BB Turbo]

The yellow looks dirty. Sorry no help here.

[leohj]

i like the purple-blueish ones you see on bmws

i like them too.. they look sexy haha

[MrEous]

Usually with HIDs the higher in rating you go the more blue/purple they get.

4300k HID looks the most white8000k HID looks purplish

maybe lower HID ratings would be a yellowish color...

[[Zero-S]]

#k refers to the temperature of the light. White light (which is really what you want when you're using hid) is in the lower k range (~4300 as prior posted). Blue light, which doesn't go as far, but looks much much prettier is up in the high temp range (as pointed out above). I'm pretty sure what you're seeing are white hid's with the yellow cover over them, which makes them look yellow. Why do it? I don't know...

edit: to tell you the truth, those yellow hids remind me of my old neon green legos that had edge glo. Those were the hottness...

[Dattebayo]

Ive worked on wall mounted HID fixtures, like the kind u see on the side of your apartment building. From what ive seen, the low temp low pressure sodium fixtures glow orangey-yellow, and they only get to around 1500K degrees.

So i think that theory about the yellow ones might be valid.

But then again, it also depends on what kind of gas you are using inside the discharge bubble (there are no filaments in HID).

Does anyone know what gas is in their HID's on their cars?

[dplxy]

i saw a yellow HIDed civic got pulled over last weekend, he was behind he and im sure ho got HID, not piaa

btw if u can, get philips 6000K HID kit u can really c the road with that kik and cops will think those r stock HID

[spec-u-later]

White HID with yellow tinted glass (or in most cases plastic), or whatever color you want.

[Cold_Zero]

How about a nice Periwinkle color?

[Dattebayo]

Metal-halide HID lamps burn light blue.Mercury-vapor HID lamps burn slightly blue, mostly white.High pressure Sodium HID bulbs burn Yellow.Low pressure Sodium HID bulbs burn Orangey-yellow.

I think this proves that you dont need a lens to decide what color you want. A lens would just trap or restrict heat flow out of the fixture and limit the life of your bulb.

[C-Kwik]

http://faq.auto.light.tripod.com/hl-hid-bulbs.htm

http://faq.auto.light.tripod.c...t.doc

These are just some interesting articles I found.

As far as the types of HID, automotive applications use Metal Halide HID's because of their quick start-up times. The other types takes up to several minutes before they can produce any effective lighting.

To make an effective yellow HID light, I might consider the use of a Dichroic filter. A yellow pass filter would work well here. Dichroic filters are different than tinted lenses in that instead of tinting the colors, it just traps a certain range of colors of light. In the case of a yellow pass, it essentially just traps the blue light in. This is the same way some of the halogen aftermarket fog lights make fore such bright yellow colors(PIAA, CATZ). Depending on what they coat with the filter(lens or bulb) you'll notice a bluish irridium color. You see blue in this instance as the blue light that hits it from the outside is being reflected back at you. This is probably the most efficient way to get a yellow HID look and has the fewest drawbacks. But I'm not automotive lighting expert, so I am not sure what other problems, if any, this might have.