I use HID H3 lamps in my vanagon�s highbeam lamps.

Great daylight-ish color after a few seconds. The first 4 or 5 seconds
are hardly brighter than lowbeam, but then they get bright!

I use the standard 6000K lamps. 5400K-6300K are used in german cars with
stock HID lights.

Seems blue for a moment, but only a few seconds.
When the eyes have lost comparison to the (extremely) yellow halogen
low-beam bulbs, it is really white.

I got the H3 setup from Ebay. Straight from China and without T�V, so
illegal in Germany. But who else but myself sees my high beams lamps in
action, anyway?!

This was a plug-and-play setup:
Halogen out,
HID in,
ballast screwed to headlight frame,
highbeam wires connected to ballast,
done.

Regards
Raimund

Am 13.11.2007 21:17, Michael Elliott schrieb:
> On 11/13/2007 9:11 AM Kai Mei wrote:
>
>
>> $349 might be better that the Square H4's... Gotta be more efficient
>> energy wise.
>
> I gotta ask: how much impact would the energy efficiency of the bulbs
> have on overall fuel consumption? Close to zero is my guess.
>
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