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Ok so before I put my order in tomorrow is there anything else I need to know about HIDs? P.s. Sorry to everyone who said to do a retrofit, but I m just a poor schoolboy.
 
coolone said:
Hahahaha, not being an ass at all. Glad you said something, made me look as to why I posted it and found... was somehow or another thinking the fog lamp wattage, lmao! My bad!

I still recommend the relay wiring harness though :D as its usually just a few bucks more and isolates the HID wiring from the vehicle wiring.
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I don't believe that a relay will "isolate" anything. A relay allows a lower current to switch a higher current. It's no more than a glorified switch.

If you want to isolate the HID "noise" from your electrical system, I'd think that the capacitor/diode circuit shown in my link to your last post would do a better job. I'd also think that a quality ballast would have a built in filter in it.
 


The relay harness supplies a more constant source of power. The HIDs are then powered by the relay harness and not the cars harness.
 
Iceman6669 said:
The relay harness supplies a more constant source of power. The HIDs are then powered by the relay harness and not the cars harness.
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This? I can understand what that does. Then the ballasts draw more than the 15 amps on initial start than my earlier link suggested?

I don't really know anything about HID lamps and installing them. I do know a bit about electric circuits.
 
I wouldnt use one, unless I got it for free...I cant express it enough, they are technically pointless. I talked to many manufacturers about it already.
 


I honestly don't have any technical data to support what I am about to say, but here in MI when it's cold as balls out if you don't have the relay harness sometimes both your HIDs won't fire up. However, I've never heard of that issue on a car running the harness. So I always spend the extra $10~ on the harness just to be safe.
 


If i get classys retros or make my own h1 retros... Are HIDS in those better? would you need H1 bulb hids or my factory hids. i have a 99 with 5k hids in stock housings
 
99GTChh said:
If i get classys retros or make my own h1 retros... Are HIDS in those better? would you need H1 bulb hids or my factory hids. i have a 99 with 5k hids in stock housings
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If you go with a retrofit, you have to get the bulb that corresponds with the projector. Depending on projector, it will be a H1 HID or a D2S HID.
 
Awesome. Thanks. I didn't know if h1 was just a reg halogen bulb or already hid.

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