HID Lights: Applications and Other Uses

High Intensity Discharge lights or HID lights are well-known for its use among automobiles. Despite the huge cost of purchasing, installing and repairing, more and more motorists choose to replace their former headlamps. But besides providing better illumination during night time rides with your car, HID lights also have other beneficial uses. Not surprisingly, all related to exorcising the darkness from every corner its beams reach.

HID lamps are used mostly when huge amounts of light are needed to brighten up a wide and large area. Thus, football stadiums and other public sports arenas typically line themselves with HID lights, allowing possible sports matches even in the evenings. If you have warehouse or stockroom that needs brilliant lighting, HID lights are a good choice. Since the power consumption of these lamps are considerably less than other types of lighting, you get better lighting that eats less electricity. Actually, airports usually use HID lights to aid the landing and taxiing of aircrafts, carefully showing the boundaries of the plane tracks. Without such powerful lighting, no crazy resident would dare reside near any airport terminal in fear of the pilot steering the airplane over his backyard.   

Indoor gardens with plants that need intense amount of sunlight also make sure of this kind of lighting. Indeed, having lush fauna in the comfort of your home has been made possible with HID lights. This type of light is especially beneficial to plants that require lots of quality time with the tropical sun. In fact, compared with lamps that are fluorescent or even incandescent, HID lamps are more effective overall. With a given amount of electricity input, the amount of light produced is much greater. 

Automobiles are the most common recipients of the benefits of using HID lights. But not only to cars and trucks, since HID lamps produce a great degree of light in proportion to electricity, it is now possible to for these lights to give off a decent intensity of light even with a small power source. Thus, strong headlamps for bicycles are now possible, sitting prettily either on the front handle bars or perched on the biker’s mounted helmet. Portable lights such as flashlights also are examples of taking advantage of the small power supply needed to shine HID lights.

The efficacy of having better lighting with less the energy requirement makes HID lights viable replacements to other lamps. The high cost of these lights is negated by the long lifespan and durability of high intensity discharge lights.