Fog light bulb recommendations?

FireEngineer, Danny should be organizing a group-buy for 9006 HiR bulbs (pre-trimmed in Japan by Koito) & 9006 Pure Yellow halogen bulbs soon, stay tuned please. The HiR bulbs will be available in 2 color tones, one to match your Prius stock halogen low beam & another to match your Prius stock HID low beam.

Edward

 

www.danielsternlighting.com is one place that sells HIR bulbs.

 

Re: Fog light bulb recommendations? My $.02

What I understand was the reason for yellow fog and the french requirement for yellow headlights went like this: If you look at lights coming at you in fog the light appears yellow. Ergo yellow light penetrates fog better. The problem with this in practice is modern lamps produce white light, so to get yellow projected needs a filter. The filter reduces the light out put, and this loss is not useful. The reason HID lights are annoying to the onlooker, especially to us old farts is that blue is scattered much more in the vitreous humor of the eye, producing flare. The great popularity for a while of BluBlockers stems from the fact that blue light is focussed by the lens just in front of the retina and is there fore blurred, and things do look sharper with them. I keep a pair of light yellow cip-ons in the car for dense fog and rain, it seems to help.

 

I think there is another reason for yellow fog lights. The yellow glare is easier on the
eyes than the white glare. Just like the red dash lights are easier on the eyes in
an airplaine cockpit, than white.

 

The reason for red illumination lights is because it does not kill your night vision, yet you can still see the objects well.

 

hi guys, been lurking here and was looking for HIR bulbs and found this thread.

i was just curious if you anyone knows where you can buy the 9011/9012 bulbs pre-trimmed? i don't think i would be a good idea to go to town on a bulb with a hacksaw! haha.