OK Sooo im thinking about getting the Nokya PRO series Arctic purple, for my low's and keep my silverstar high's...

Any feedback on Nokya?

Also any websites, would help me alot to..

ThANKS GUYS N GALS

 

I've had my Luminics for 2 days now. I got the Super White. First, they are dimmer.... not sure by how much or how much it effects anything as you can still see everything pretty well. I will swap them around in the back roads and check it out a bit more. Second, they are not white. They are blue... not white. They are similiar to a light hid blue. But if you are looking for pure pure pure white light, these are not them. Silver Stars I am almost certain would be slightly brighter and more white.

I'll post more as I discover and test more.

 

ok... so whats the deal here? it seems some people get luminics, some silverstars, some koito...

some people hate each and some people seem to like each... is there any kind of consensus on which are best? :-/

 

If you want a real improvement in light output without going HID - I reccomend some HIRs. Most people seem to want something "pretty" instead of something functional however

 

i have tryed both luminics super white and koito whitebeams. Koito is way better in terms of brightness and quality in my book. But it comes at a price

 

at 60something bucks a bulb they definetly are more expensive.. but if they are that much better and will last a long time, i think i would go with those.

VIP_tC: got a link for the HIRs?

thanks guys. i put my order in for a nautical blue last night

 

which bulbs are $60 some per bulb? If you are talking about whitebeams, they are about $40/pair on ebay. real HIR(Toshiba) you can get on ebay for $99 for a pair i believe

 

the koito white beams look to be $60 a bulb on optauto.com

 

At first I really liked my high beam ultra whites, but they are actually sort of blue, my silverstar low beams are actually brighter than my high beams...When I get some money Im just gonna get the silver stars.

 

good lordy your lowbeams are brighter than highbeams? man those things must be dim as hell

 

try searching harder because i got them for 70 a pair. Remember that there are to versions of the whitebeam, an old version and a newer "Version 3"

 

yea, im retarded, they are for pairs... anyone know how much better the v3's are?

 

Well im thinking....silverstars are 4000k and Version 3s are 4200k. Both are legal which probably means the version 3's will be a tad bit more colorful without compromising alot of output.

 

 

blue light is at the shortest end of the spectrum but contrary to Kwiksilver, is more visible of clearer than white, red or yellow light. it does matter the color you are talking about. for example, the color of the sky, blue, is the shortest wavelength making it more visible,

 

i had the nokyas in my car until last week when the fried my harnesses..i would go with a lower wattage

 

OK, let's get serious about lighting color and it's effects on visibility.

Here's a very good study of highway lighting at night, and the effects of lamp color on vision.

Note that at night, normal highway lighting conditions push the 'most visible' range into the
blue-green portion of the spectrum, and away from the normal high-light-levels yellow-green
range.

Note also that the best visibility at night, in low light level conditions, is near the boundry of
the blue and green, or a blue-green color.

At NO time is the visibility good in the ultra blue through violet to ultraviolet end of the
spectrum or the orange through red to infrared end of the spectrum.

The testing done for this study was very exacting, and fairly complete, and it was directed at
finding the absolute best lighting color(s) for nightime highway visibility.

AT NIGHT, reddish is out, orange is bad, yellow is marginal, green is slightly better, blue-green
is best, blue is not as good, ultra-blue is bad, purple/violet/ultraviolet is useless.

READ the study, look at the charts, understand the results, then we can talk intelligently.

It really is more than "Ooooohhh! Look at the pretty lights!!!"

Highway lighting color study (pdf) <===

Then, of course, there are the 12 percent of the population with color anomalies in their
vision...that's a different field, though.

 

Tom - Nice!

 

you are full of it... by "it" i mean very useful information. seriously though, you must do a lot of reading and research in your spare time. thanks for always having the info. you are a trusted source in my book.

 

are these brighter and whiter then the SILVERSTARS?