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Old Nov 5, 2014 | 12:05 AM
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Heyoo! So I just bought me some
headlights headlights
from Spyder and was looking to get some bulbs. The kit itself (check out the link) says that they're Halogen LED, and that confuses me because I want to use these
HIDs HIDs
. Would they fit? I don't know anything about this stuff, so any help is greatly appreciated!
 
Old Nov 6, 2014 | 01:49 PM
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Halogen LED makes no sense, halogen is a gas while a LED is a solid state device (no gas). I suspect they meant LED replacements for halogen lights.
HID is a High Density Discharge light, really an arc light inside of a glass envelope filled with xnon gas, the light is produced by an electric arc developed across two electrodes (similar to a spark in a spark plug) the xenon gas is used to facilitate the arcing. HIDs require a high voltage supply to set off the arc.
Halogen lamps a re just plain light bulbs filled with halogen gas for better efficiency and life.
LED devices work off a low voltage supply and when used to replace a regular lamp they are usually wired in series or through a device that lowers the voltage.
 
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