I'll stop ranting, I think I've made my point. All factory HID bulbs are at or below 4,200K - this is the same color light as daylight, as you go further up the color scale you lose the advantages of the HID bulb little by little. Also, it is important to note that as you go up in color temperature you lose effective light output, or lumens. For those of you with non-SC elements I'm sorry, but for you it IS different and a full swap is necessary to get the perfomance you'd expect from an HID headlight and reduce the glare you would get by sticking the bulb into a standard halogen reflector. a balast comes with an HID conversion!! Trust me guys you are in good shape with a 'plug and play' conversion on an SC, rather than all of the work this guy is talking about (Unless you just want to be able to spray, er, eh, um sorry, say that you have retrofitted an E46's xenon HID. Now, behind the scenes the difference is a conventional setup has no balast to step up voltage. These kits are out there (try Xentec for one). I put an * up there because it is important to buy a bulb that has been built with the correct focal point - that is, the center of the HID bulb's refractory envelope must be positioned the same distance from the lens as the center of the filament would be in your conventional bulb. A lens is a lens, and all it does is focus the light. There is NO DIFFERENCE between an HID projector, and putting an HID bulb into any other projector headlight*. and a Masters in Materials Engineering - but that is not the pertinent degree here), and used to work in optics/lighting- essentially (R&D, and) designing these badboys (for military, and later, full Race applications).
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