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this is taken from the articule you just post
Technically, color temperature refers to the temperature to which one would have to heat a theoretical "black body" source to produce light of the same visual color.the temperature is the heat need to produce the color, for example, in a fire you can see diferent color depending on the temp of it, the regular yellow is the coldest point of heat and as you increase the oxigen charge to a fire the flames will turn in the following order yellow to green to blue and some gases can burn colorless ( methanol )
an HID kit has novel gases inside the bulb that react with the electricity ( acting as heat source ) to produce the color of choice.
that's the way I think it is, probably I'm wrong so any other info is well taken.
The HID's are NOT a black body source. They are xenon gas, which does not follow teh same temp:heat ratio of this black body. Heres some more readings:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_temperature"However, many other light sources, such as fluorescent lamps, do not emit radiation in the form of a black-body curve, and are assigned what is known as a correlated color temperature (CCT), which is the color temperature of a black body which most closely matches the lamp's perceived color"
What im saying is that unless you have this black body, Temperature does not equal color temperature. So if I still haven't convinced you this informal argument might help.
The sun is 5770 K
The xenon bulbs i have are 8000 K
According to your arguments my bulbs are in fact physically hotter than the sun. How does that not melt the housing
