HID: Not Just for Fashion

HID (High Intensity Discharge), or better known as the Xenon lamp can produce a very bright light. The brightness of HID lamp is determined by the unit degrees Kelvin (K). If you HID lamp ballast itself is needed is a means to provide and control the lamp voltage, and the flow of electricity to stabilize.

HID lamps Variety
Now a lot of different types of HID lamps are brands / types with varying quality, its use is not just for cars only, but every engine. Since many different brands and qualities we have jelly in choosing a good HID lights for our vehicles.

For the type / types of HID lamps in the market generally consists of model H1 bulbs, H3, H4, H7, H8, H11, HB3, HB4. What distinguishes one another on the position of the lamp, while the same for all ballasts. General circulation model in Indonesia is the type where the lamps with H4 bulbs much closer together.

Color Brightness
HID lamps have many levels of information that is determined based on the unit degrees Kelvin (K) and each value has a light color in different lights. Here are a range of colors based on the level of degrees Kelvin (K)

* Yellow 4300K
* White 5500K light yellow
* White 6500K
* 8500K white and blue
* Little Blue 10000K Purple
12700K Purple *
* 15000K Pink

In the selection of HID lamps must look at factors that function and its usefulness after a new note of the appearance.

HID lamps are famous for durable and usually when there is damage that can only be replaced on a part that was damaged only so no need to replace all the parts. But of course it must be checked in advance which parts were damaged.