#2008 prius headlight hid vs halogen upgrade

The HIDs I hade where techniclly brighter but not visibly so. Here's my bike, converted from 35W (3Five) morimoto 4300K to Cree 25W per LED (x4 LEDs) 4500k headlights.

I have to agree that getting a color temp closer to daylight will give you much better night visibility and useful light.

#2008 prius headlight hid vs halogen upgrade

The easiest way for you to get more light is to either get one of the ultra-effective bulbs (silverstar or similar) and aim it properly or upgrade your wiring harness and get a higher wattage bulb to put out more light (and heat). Even if it has a sharp cutoff at the top so you don't blind people, you're going to have uber-bright light in all the wrong places. Don't put HID in a headlight intended for halogens. For halogens, you need a reflector or projector that's designed for halogens. To use HID bulbs, you need a reflector or projector that's designed for HID bulbs. This is why specific light controlling hardware is required and why mixing is not recommended.īasically, to get optimum output for your light source, you need hardware that's been designed for it. The 'hot spot' of the bulb is in very different places and is a different shape. HID's are an arc-based light source, while Halogens are a filament based light source.

HID bulbs and halogen bulbs do not put out light in the same manner and therefore require different methods of controlling the output. The difference in halogen vs HID and reflector vs projector lies in the light source. Look at older Prius's with HID reflectors or many BMW's/Audi's withd HID projectors You can use HID bulbs in HID reflectors or HID projectors. Look at the new Ford Explorers, etc with halogen projectors. You can use halogens in halogen projectors or halogen reflectors. The difference is not so much just projector vs reflector. And the halogen isn't an HID so it doesn't need the projector?