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Nov 8th, 2017, 12:02 | #21 |
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Nov 8th, 2017, 13:20 | #22 | |
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For me sorry to say, it's a bit late as both bulbs have now been replaced in all of around 10 minutes while the good one that came out will be kept as a spare.......just in case. Interestingly I got both for £20 less (Made by Phillips in Germany) from an alternative outlet to powerbulbs for less than the cost of one from Volvo. Cheers. |
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Nov 8th, 2017, 19:12 | #23 | |
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In your last post you mentioned that you're trying to match the Kelvin rating to make sure you don't end up with something dimmer. I don't think the colour temperature is related to brightness, although the blueish tinge on bulbs with a high Kelvin rating can appear to light things up better.
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Put the name into Google and it came up with the website of the company that are offering it 'Xenons4U'. The same bulb from powerbulbs is according to them now sold under a different name which is: 'Philips Xenon Vision D1S that is more expensive (£10) while the spec is very close to the Phillips XenStart D1S. |
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Nov 9th, 2017, 11:05 | #25 |
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Short wavelength blue light has less penetrative power than longer wave length red light, hence the last light to reach us through the extra atmosphere as the sun dips down to the horizon is red giving us red sun sets. In damp air a more yellow/white light containing a higher proportion of long wavelength light will throw a longer beam than scattered blue light. Blue light looks brighter but keeping the colour temperature towards the 4000° level will be the best compromise for all round beam length. The auto fashionistas like blue tinged bulbs but this harks back to the days when only exotic cars had HID Xenon lights and the early ones tended to look a lot bluer than they do now.
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While now of course even though yellow lights are better in damp/misty/foggy conditions you see very few cars if any with at least yellow foglights on the front. Still I am just glad I could get exact replacements for my headlights without having to go 'Spec Matching' with an alternative and ending up with different headlight colours and intensities! |
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If it's of any help. I have a Free Account with Photobucket that I use for uploading pictures to and they have been there for a number of years with no problems of access and remaining there. Cheers |
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Nov 9th, 2017, 21:10 | #29 | |
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I think 6000K HIDs are useful for matching the colour of any LEDs that are running alongside them. Fortunately my 'old' car doesn't have any of those daft 'daytime running lights' or whatever they're called.
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Can't find the orginals on my laptop and imageshack have deleted my account. Will try and replicate the pics on my next day off.
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