What Using the HID Xenon Kits Means

Posted by resrsr on Friday, January 1, 2010

By Hassaan Ahmad

People are often looking to make relatively small investments into their vehicles to make it a more enjoyable and safe ride for everybody. One of the ways that they can do that is by purchasing a HDI xenon kit. An HID Xenon kit allows you to install headlights that go far beyond making your car look better. They also make it easier to see at night. The light they produce is more intense and has a bigger range than those of the halogen headlights that most people use today. In fact, in many cases you can see anywhere between 3 and 5 times better.

The HID xenon kits can provide over 300 percent of the light that you are now getting from your halogen bulb. The light produced by the HID kits often simulates the daytime with a clear white light, though there are always blue and purple bulbs available that work just as well. With the HID xenon kit installed in your car you can see the reflection of signs and road markings much better than you could with the common halogen headlights.

Instead of the filament and the non reactive gases that you normally see in household use, and the filaments that are surrounded with quartz and halogen gases that you see in the everyday halogen headlights you get a more efficient system with the HID xenon kits.

While halogen uses gases to help your headlights last longer and shine brighter than your household lights, the HID headlights use the gases to produce the lights. The lights in the HID xenon kit use a micro-discharge bulb that is later filled with a mixture of noble gases. These gases of course include xenon. There are absolutely no filaments in these bulbs. Instead, two electrodes create the light arc. This in turn gives a greater range in illumination.

In order to convert a car or a motorcycle you need a several different things. They include ballasts, or amplifiers, igniters, if they aren't built into the ballast already, HID headlights, and the 20 amp fuses for when you start up. If it turns out that your car uses sealed halogen beams then you'll need to get a sealed beam converter. If you'd rather you could try using a wiring harness, an upgraded factory harness, and some relays.

You can use an HID xenon kit for almost every type of vehicle there is. The biggest limitation is that the high/low bulbs do not function. Normally these would be bulbs with two filament ; however with the HID kit converter you can't get both high beams and low beams.

In order to find the HID xenon kit that will work best for your car you need to do some research. Know everything you can about our car and it's current headlights, and it doesn't hurt to take it to a professional. The HID conversion kits in general are kind of pricey, so you want to be sure you get the best one for your money.

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