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i have seen a pair of projectors and i thought that they were supposed to be blue in color kinda like HID. am i wrong in this assumption or is there some that have that look?
thanks for the info
Todd

 
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the blue color in hid projectors are because the projectors spread the beams like a prizm, a projector shouldn't be blue

 
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Maybe it was the "ion" projector... look for a pic of it, it might be the one ur talking about... and voiceofid is right

 
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ive seen a description of the "ion" but have never seen any on, so that's probably why i thougth that they were supposed to be blue. does anyone have a pic of these ON. thanks for the info on the HID. that was something that i didnt know, learn something everytime i get on here

 
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Don't forget, the blue could be the bulb!

I have halo projectors and the low beam projector lens had a bluish tint to it, when there was no bulb loaded. It became even more blue, after I added MTEC h1 bulbs.

But, the blue on the bulb or the projector lens doesn't really do anything except make the light output a little whiter. The light beam won't actually be blue because of the blue bulb or the blue lens.

The wattage/temperature of the bulbs is what determines the color of the light beam. HID use high wattage so the light comes out blueish

 
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hids are 35 watts , compare to a halogenbulb which is usually 55-65watts and their light are actually quite yellow, more like halogens, it's the projector that changes the color, kinda like shotting a light through a magnify glass

 
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my fault. I don't explain very well.

I was basing my info from this. Have you ever seen one of these types of graphs?

That's from Sylvania.com

"What about HID's color?

The color of the light source is expressed as its color temperature. As the color temperature increases, the color of the light moves from yellow to white to blue-white. HID headlights provide light at a higher color temperature than standard halogen headlights, which gives them a crisp white appearance. The table below shows the color temperature of various light sources. As a reference, sunlight at noon is 5250°K"
http://www.sylvania.com/xenarc/hidfaq.htm

 
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that's the tempature of the color, not the tempature of the heat which is released by wattage

as that graph mentioned, standard hids are around 4100k color, anything beyond that, you start to lose light

 
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ION projectors come out yellow in color when they are turned on, like some fog lights. dont let the rainbow looking lens fool you.

 
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so if i got the ion blue projectors with the mtec bulbs, that still wouldnt be as blue as the HID's are or would it be pretty close?
i love the blue look but i just dont want to spend $500 for the HID's

 
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they will look just like any other "fake" blue bulb...

 
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pretty much

 
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my projectors

 
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YEAH, I was wondering this too!!!

This is what he is talking about....

http://www.rsversion.com/details.asp?ProdID=313

Let us know!

Thanks, PJG

 
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^^ well... its an ION Lense, so it has color film? or somethin over the lense... a lot of foglights come like that but in a gold/yellow color

those are the "waffle" projectors as people call em i had em... then some1 went into my car, now i have pieces of tycs (for now)

 
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yes those are what im talking about. can anyone show me a pic of those on? they look really blue sitting there ,but that doenst mean a whole lot!
thanks

 
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the HID gives off a slightly blue tint, that fade from blue to gold to ink to bright white on the escalades and jaguars and bmw 700 series is the projector lens

 
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it's the same bulb setup (i manage to fit a h1 into the hid projector...)

you cna clearly see the hid lens gives much blue/whiter light