Low Beams Question
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Low Beams Question
Hey everyone, I have a 2015 V8 S and I have a quick question about the low beams. In the pics I have seen of F types, the low beams are like a nice blueish whitish color. Yet, my low beams start off at a nice white color but then immediately go to like a yellowish color. Is that suppose to happen? Because they don't look attractive at all.
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Cameras will never capture the true color output. Depending on how often you use your low-beams, HID bulbs have a burn in process. New HID bulbs will often start off with a yellowish tint. As they start "wearing" in, they will gradually start turning whiter and more bluer
Keep in mind that OEM HID bulbs are designed to replicate sunlight color temperature which can range anywhere between about 4200k-5000k. The higher you go up in color temperature, the more white and blue the lighting output will be at the cost of reduced light output.
Keep in mind that OEM HID bulbs are designed to replicate sunlight color temperature which can range anywhere between about 4200k-5000k. The higher you go up in color temperature, the more white and blue the lighting output will be at the cost of reduced light output.
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Hey everyone, I have a 2015 V8 S and I have a quick question about the low beams. In the pics I have seen of F types, the low beams are like a nice blueish whitish color. Yet, my low beams start off at a nice white color but then immediately go to like a yellowish color. Is that suppose to happen? Because they don't look attractive at all.
The OEM bulbs are rated 4300K. 4300K is the bulb rating most commonly used by OEM manuf's as it gives out the most light (lumens). Once warmed up, a 4300K bulb will show some yellow as you have seen. Over time (100+ hours of use), the bulb's color will shift somewhat towards the whiter end of the light spectrum; but, it'll never get up to the blue-white color you see at start-up.
To help eliminate the yellow-white color, you can change out to bulbs with a higher Kelvin rating, which is what I did. See here: https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/f...lights-122393/
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Cameras will never capture the true color output. Depending on how often you use your low-beams, HID bulbs have a burn in process. New HID bulbs will often start off with a yellowish tint. As they start "wearing" in, they will gradually start turning whiter and more bluer
Keep in mind that OEM HID bulbs are designed to replicate sunlight color temperature which can range anywhere between about 4200k-5000k. The higher you go up in color temperature, the more white and blue the lighting output will be at the cost of reduced light output.
Keep in mind that OEM HID bulbs are designed to replicate sunlight color temperature which can range anywhere between about 4200k-5000k. The higher you go up in color temperature, the more white and blue the lighting output will be at the cost of reduced light output.
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While it is true that bulbs with a lower kelvin rating put out more light than bulbs with higher ratings, the beauty of the CBI (Cool Blue Intense) bulbs is that you get both light and color. OSRAM has figured out a way to keep the light in their CBI D3S 5000K bulb at the same intensity as the OEM 4300 bulb, i.e., 3200 lumens. I won't sacrifice light for color.
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While it is true that bulbs with a lower kelvin rating put out more light than bulbs with higher ratings, the beauty of the CBI (Cool Blue Intense) bulbs is that you get both light and color. OSRAM has figured out a way to keep the light in their CBI D3S 5000K bulb at the same intensity as the OEM 4300 bulb, i.e., 3200 lumens. I won't sacrifice light for color.
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