Slater Posted July 12, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2005 just for looks..←Actually...http://www.danielsternlighting.com/tech/li...ight_color.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick. Posted July 12, 2005 Report Share Posted July 12, 2005 it does look sick, but is functional as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turbobrick Posted July 12, 2005 Report Share Posted July 12, 2005 Actually...http://www.danielsternlighting.com/tech/li...ight_color.html←i found a lot of articles arguing different."Investigations and practices of automobile traffic do not confirm any substantial advantages of yellow light over white light. The advantages ascribed to it may take place only in very thin fog or may be subjectively received by some drivers owing to their individual peculiarities of vision. Therefore, it does not make any sense to switch over headlights to yellow light, although the use of yellow light in special fog lights does not raise any objections." here's a good one(1) yellow lamps suffer less backscatter into the eyes of the car's driver than blue or green, allowing them to see better in the fog; The first point is true for light scattered off very tiny aerosol particles in fog -- blue light is scattered out of the path from the sun to the viewer of a sunset, leaving white light minus blue to reach the observer... so he/she sees yellow/red -- but is pretty irrelevant for the kind of yellow lights used for fog lamps. Those lamps were generally made by putting yellow filters over a hot tungsten filament incandescent lamp, so that a lot of light is lost in trying to make the yellow light -- reducing the brightness available for the driver to see, which is not such a good idea. Using a halogen gas fill increases the brightness of the bulb, but the same general principle of reduced brightness still holds. Additionally, the size of water drops in fog is generally not appropriate for producing the kind of scattering I mentioned above -- if so, headlights would appear very red to oncoming traffic, which they don't."http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/jul99/932144187.Ph.r.html" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exexpat Posted July 12, 2005 Report Share Posted July 12, 2005 Good stuff Slater Now I just need to get my driver foglight working, then I can change the color of it!←You should get yellow H3's. I actually prefer the clear lens, yellow bulb route. http://www.rallylights.com/hella/H3.asp You can probably do 85w on stock wiring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slater Posted July 12, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2005 i found a lot of articles arguing different.You're right. There's arguements either way.Let's just say however that the arguement FOR yellow was strong enough for the entire French govt to require it on all vehicles. Now, they don't require it anymore, but I don't know if that was because automakers were sick of catering to one govt's market, or if it was just disproven. But it boils down to preference.I don't think I would like yellow in my headlights, but the stock fog lights are comical at best, so I wouldn't really say the arguement for or against yellow really has any merit.Now, with high wattage bulbs the story may change. I will just have to see once I get mine. But then again, I do very little driving in true "cut with a knife" fog. So I use mince more for driving lights and/or additional light fill or even looks. So from that aspect amber/yellow is what I like. On a black car I think it looks badass.- Slater Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turbobrick Posted July 13, 2005 Report Share Posted July 13, 2005 You're right. There's arguements either way.Let's just say however that the arguement FOR yellow was strong enough for the entire French govt to require it on all vehicles. Now, they don't require it anymore, but I don't know if that was because automakers were sick of catering to one govt's market, or if it was just disproven. But it boils down to preference.I don't think I would like yellow in my headlights, but the stock fog lights are comical at best, so I wouldn't really say the arguement for or against yellow really has any merit.Now, with high wattage bulbs the story may change. I will just have to see once I get mine. But then again, I do very little driving in true "cut with a knife" fog. So I use mince more for driving lights and/or additional light fill or even looks. So from that aspect amber/yellow is what I like. On a black car I think it looks badass.- Slater←oh i agree... yellow fogs are hot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick. Posted July 13, 2005 Report Share Posted July 13, 2005 oh i agree... yellow fogs are hot←yea they are... my bro's '87 Benz is rockin the factory yellow fogs, Benz doesn't often make mistakes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomtbone Posted July 15, 2005 Report Share Posted July 15, 2005 I thought I woudl way in here. I really like my yeller driving/fog lights. easy on the eyes, but oooooohh so helpful. Here are two pics of them in the dark. They are actually blue because of the lense during the day. Xenon bulb as well.I have since gotten clear corners and yellow bulbs to match fo the corners and sidemarkers.FET CatzeBay listing for my actual fog lights Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beachnut Posted July 15, 2005 Report Share Posted July 15, 2005 MAN ... those are NOICE !!! Are they straight-up bolt-on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slater Posted July 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 15, 2005 MAN ... those are NOICE !!! Are they straight-up bolt-on?←I agree - those are SWEET. Are the driving lights or fogs?CATZ makes really nice quality lights. I've owned a number of CATZ products in the past and have been happy with all of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slater Posted July 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 15, 2005 I will let you know in a few days when my yellow bulbs arrive.←OK, just as an update. I got my new yellow H3 fog bulbs and they definitely helped increase the brightness of the stock fogs. It's not 10xs brighter but I would say it's about 50% brighter. I also pointed them up slightly which also made a difference.I didn't take any pics because I am lazy, didn't get to install 1 new bulb only so I could take comparisons of stock vs yellow bulb, and now that I aimed them higher the pictures would not have compared apples and apples.For $20 I couldn't go wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomtbone Posted July 15, 2005 Report Share Posted July 15, 2005 MAN ... those are NOICE !!! Are they straight-up bolt-on?←I work at a machine shop, so things were easy for me, but could be done by anyone. I just had to drill two new holes in the existing R fog light bracket...thats it!I really am amazed with the brightness :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeph430 Posted July 30, 2005 Report Share Posted July 30, 2005 You should get yellow H3's. I actually prefer the clear lens, yellow bulb route. http://www.rallylights.com/hella/H3.asp You can probably do 85w on stock wiring.←So, does anyone know if you can do the 85w or not?? I am wanting to order soon, thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeph430 Posted October 10, 2005 Report Share Posted October 10, 2005 So, does anyone know if you can do the 85w or not?? I am wanting to order soon, thanks!Anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Figawi Posted October 11, 2005 Report Share Posted October 11, 2005 interested in knowng as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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