Important! : Help with H.I.D's please!

1. 9Freedman9 Established Member Joined: May 2008 Posts: 1997

   #1 13th December 2010, 11:15

   Hi guys, I just wonderd whether the difference between the 6k and the 8k were just the bulbs or the ballast? I know the colours are different, but one of my 8k ballasts has stopped working, so was just wondering if I plugged my 8k bulb into a 6k ballast, whether it would be the same or even if it would work?
   
   Thanks.
2. user_48207 Infrequent Poster Joined: Oct 2010 downpatrick, ireland Posts: 199 saxo vtr mk1 1.5 diesel 106 donor tddi focus

   #2 13th December 2010, 11:19

   Yes it will work
3. 9Freedman9 Established Member Joined: May 2008 Posts: 1997

   #3 13th December 2010, 11:41

   So i'll get 8k light from the 6k ballast then yes? Thanks.
4. user_20683 Saxperience Forum Bum Joined: Jan 2008 Woolwich Barracks Posts: 3921 52 Plate Black 8v R'

   #4 13th December 2010, 11:58

   I swear they are different frequencies as they kick out different output?
5. ashbuster Regular Poster Joined: Oct 2010 walsall Posts: 479 mk4 golf gti 1.8 turbo (AUM)

   #5 13th December 2010, 12:01

   i know your not supost to mix balasts realy because if you put a 600 wat sodium bulb or metal halide bulb in a 400 wat balast its dangerous
   it would work but your not supost to do it
   so why do it with car lights?
6. crabzy Established Member Joined: Jan 2010 Leyland Posts: 1998 have to find out ;)

   #6 13th December 2010, 12:49

   you be better playing it on safe side and buy the 8k kit .
7. 9Freedman9 Established Member Joined: May 2008 Posts: 1997

   #7 13th December 2010, 20:27

   Well I bought some off a guy off here who was doing a group buy and three months down the line one of the boxes broke, so seeing as I got them with a warentee I thought i'd get another ballast, but the geezer keeps messing me about so i'm stuck in limbo really.
8. Tom5190 Saxperience Post Whore Joined: Sep 2007 Someones Bumhole Posts: 5721 Mk2 16v Desire

   #8 14th December 2010, 00:16

   My understanding of this was that: Ballast controls the power, and the bulbs are made to cope with a set amount of K&voltage. Therefore a 6K ballast will work with a 6,8,10K bulb but only give out the same colored light as the 6K. and if you run a lower K reading bulb on say a 10K ballast you run the risk of blowing it alot quicker...
   
   All of the above is not a guarentee though did learn about this at college but that was 3 years ago
   
   Just buy an 8K ballast
9. user_20683 Saxperience Forum Bum Joined: Jan 2008 Woolwich Barracks Posts: 3921 52 Plate Black 8v R'

   #9 14th December 2010, 10:25

   Seen as you bought the kit of him keep harrassing him or go back to Manafacturer as that is who the kit has the guarantee with?
10. 9Freedman9 Established Member Joined: May 2008 Posts: 1997

    #10 14th December 2010, 11:09

    I have been harrasing him but apparently his supplier has just gone bust so there isn't much I can do now, who actually makes H.I.D's? I don't have a reciept for them so in theory there isn't proof of purchase or how old they are...