Hey i'm not so versed when it coems to HIDs so please bare with me on this one.

when you go from stock to after market HIDs with different colors do they draw more current?

 

yup especially to cops

 

^hahahaha good one...lol

 

To answer your question they do. They also heat up your housings a lot more than the OEM ones.

 

Ok is there a relationship between the K number and wether it draws more or less?

 

well with my 8k headlight and fog lights people do move out of the way after for me on the highway.

 

The K and the number equals the brightness. The number 6000 is the output and k stands for wattage/voltage

 

Wrong.

K= kelvin it's a measurement of heat index but for lighting it's strctly the appearance of the color in relation to how similar it looks to a carbon block heated to the same temperature.
The lumens indicates the actual output in brightness
4300k is the brightest bulb you can get at around 3200 lumens at 35watts
and any other temperature it is less bright and draws the SAME current.
only when you use 50 watt bulbs and ballasts do you use more current and output more lumens at around 5200 lumens at 4300k and 50 watts.
keep in mind halogens output around 1500 lumens and at 8000k you get around 1700 lumens per bulb.

Glare doesnt mean brightness.

 

Thanks guys for the clarity.

However my stock lamp blew so i'm about ready to change and i'm thiking about getting one with a rich blue color and i'm still not sure if i'll burn out my wiring harness if i replaced the bulb with one of these.

please guys HELP!!

 

if you understood what i said or read it. Then you should conclude. No it make no difference in current draw. You will get light output closer to halogen with bulbs like 8000k

 

6000k bulbs will work just fine.

 

wow.. good thing you interjected there Ivory.. i would have done so myself if you didn't

 

Thanks Ivory i guess i'm beating this to the death here. in your first response you said

"K= kelvin it's a measurement of heat index but for lighting it's strctly the appearance of the color in relation to how similar it looks to a carbon block heated to the same temperature."

Are you trying to say that even though 4300K has a certain heat index and lumens. if i go 8000K with a greater heat index and less lumens the current draw is the same and temperature is the same?

forgive me if i'm slow to understand this...

 

K is the color temperature. At least for headlight bulbs, as the K number increases, color of the light changes more toward blue and purple and the light output decreases. A 6000K Philips Ultinon bulb will output about 25% less light than a standard 4300K HID bulb.

The current will remain the same.

 

This is actually a really simple concept to understand.

The K next to the number is just a label (which yes does stand for Kelvin). It represents the color that will be output. 4300K=white, 6000K=bluish white, 8000K=blue, 10000K=purple. Ivory, I think the explanation with the heat index relative to a carbon block is confusing people looking for a relatively simple answer

Lumens means how much light will it put out. Again, this has nothing to do with the current being drawn (strictly speaking, keep reading). Higher lumens means brighter.

Power (35 Watts for stock) is the one rating that does affect current draw. If you stick with stock ballasts and use 35W bulbs, you will not be drawing any more current than stock. The only way you can draw more current is use more powerful ballasts and bulbs (50W for example). Then and only then will you draw more current compared to what you already do now.