Re: Best/Reliable car HID's
If an HID kit cost less than $99, chances say that they are fake. Most of those ebay deals are just halogens that simulate HID colors with a blue tint on the bulb.
Nonsense. It's the <$10 kits you need to worry about. Most of the $50 kits are legit.
About the color, I ordered some "30,000k" bulbs from an ebay seller, but they're closer to 10,000k. Beware the color ratings from chinese bulbs. Also, I would stick with 6000k or lower, but just to help avoid police attention. Compared with the typical 3000k halogen bulbs on the road, it'll still look kinda blue (especially at night)
your peripheral eyesight is almost exclusively in yellow-red.
You must be thinking of something else. Wikipedia: "Peripheral vision is weaker in humans, compared with other animals, especially at distinguishing color and shape. This is because receptor cells on the retina are greater at the center and lowest at the edges (see visual system for an explanation of these concepts). In addition, there are two types of receptor cells, rod cells and cone cells;
rod cells are unable to distinguish color and are predominant at the periphery, while cone cells are concentrated mostly in the center of the retina, the fovea."
And on rod cells: "Experiments by George Wald and others showed that
rods are most sensitive to wavelengths of light around 498 nm (green-blue), and less sensitive to wavelengths longer than about 640 nm (red). This fact is responsible for the Purkinje effect, in which blue colors appear more intense relative to reds at twilight, when rods take over as the cells responsible for vision."
