Now I bet you have heard all these good things about the HID conversion kits, whether they be the HID xenon conversion kits or the McCulloch conversion kits, but what exactly is it that makes these HID conversion kits safer and overall better than the halogen lights that you find, and have for years found, people using in their cars and other vehicles?

For one thing, the HID conversion kits that are offered today allow you to use headlights that are much more efficient than the halogen lights we often see. Instead of using filaments incased in quartz that is filled with halogen gases, HID conversion kits, including HID xenon conversion kits, use gases that react to the electricity that is pulled into them in order to produce an arc. The arc produced by the HID conversion kit is three to five times brighter than the halogen lights that you normally use. What’s better is that it uses less energy than the halogen lights and it lasts a lot longer, if the HID kit used is installed correctly of course. Add that to the sweet looks of the headlights in general and you are good to go.

Now you know that people are beginning to prefer them because of both efficiency and looks, but what is it that makes it so they work so well for so long? Well that is of course another good question about the HID conversion kits. HID headlights from the HID kits work longer and better than halogen lights because they don’t have the filament and they use different gases. The reason halogen lights and the everyday household lights burn out so easily is because they have filaments that deteriorate over time. Unless the bulb is damaged to begin with, halogen lights work better and longer than the household lights because of a quartz tube that covers the filament. This tube is filled with halogen gases that react to they deteriorating filaments to redeposit the little bits that have been, almost literally, burned off. For this same reason halogen lights are able to burn at a higher temperature than household lights. The little blackened areas that you find on a household light are the area where most of the deteriorated filament was deposited, especially as it finally broke.

HID headlights that you get from the HID kits work better than halogen headlights because they have skipped the need for the filaments all together. Instead, they use gases. When these gases have an electric current pulsing trough them then create an arc, and this arc gives us much more visible light than the bulbs using filaments could. Since there are no filaments to deteriorate, the HID headlights that you get from almost any HID conversion kit last longer than any of the halogen or household light bulbs ever could, which proves helpful in the long run since you don’t have to worry about them going out on you while you’re on the road.