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Originally Posted by mexiken
Turns out bluest and brightest go hand in hand. On the color spctrum, blue (specifically, violet) is the highest color you can visibly see. (I should have known that already). So the higher the temp of the light, the more blue it is. Which is COOL !!!!
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You're drawing improper conclusions. Yes the higher the temparature of a filament the more blue it will get. At relatively low temperatures things glow red. When they get hotter they glow white, and even hotter they glow blue. But that has nothing to do with the brightness of your headlights. If you're getting the blue by tinting the bulb blue, then you don't have a hotter or brighter bulb. You have a bulb where some of the light frequencies (the lower redder frequencies) are being filtered out - reducing the overall light output.
One more thing to consider - the atmosphere absorbs blue light more than red. The more moisture in the air (fog, mist) the more blue is absorbed. So bluish light doesn't shine as far. That's why they make fog lights yellow, not blue.