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Old 08-13-2015, 03:09 PM
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Okay I just purchased an HID kit that is 6000k. Well anyway I also have a 20 in light bar, and changed my dome lights, tail lights, and 3rd brake lights to leds. It might be a dumb question but I just want to make sure my battery is fine with the extra power from the lighting. Especially since I will extra power going from the battery to both the light bar and hids. Just making sure I should be fine wiring everything up
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You'll be fine. Hopefully you have projectors and not planning on just dropping those HID's in the stock reflector housings... Don't be that guy.
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All that new light takes less power than heating up a piece of tungsten enough to glow.

Also, bad things happen to people with HIDs in reflector housings.
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You should be fine since HIDs draw less AMPs than the halogen, same for LED lights.
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Originally Posted by Toshbar
All that new light takes less power than heating up a piece of tungsten enough to glow.

Also, bad things happen to people with HIDs in reflector housings.
What kind of bad things?? I had a set of HID's in my 99 chevy and never had anything happen,nor did any on coming traffic ever flash me.But I did aim them down a little. and also learned they scatter the light all over but they were still better then the stock headlights.even though they were better then the stock lights I would not do it again. I was just wondering what bad things happen?



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