Amber vs white fog lights

Well in that case I should be golden with one of these. My grandma raves about it!

 

My post was a little tongue-in-cheek, but that said the glasses would in fact work just as well as filters on the lights. Remember reflections do not change the wavelength of the light. So with white light it is primarily the bluer wavelengths that backscatter the most. The yellow glasses will filter out that backscatter. If you apply the filters to the fog lights themselves then the blue wavelengths aren't there to scatter in the first place. In either case though the scattered blue light never reaches your eyes.

In general it doesn't matter if you filter the light source (your headlights, a flashlight, a camera flash) or filter the sensor (camera, videocamera, your eyes) you get the same result. That's why you see a lot of sunglasses are tinted yellow or orange, it cuts down on haze scattering from the blue portion of sunlight. They work just fine despite the fact you aren't filtering the sun itself.

The one oddball exception to that are materials that fluoresce. Such materials actually do change the wavelength of the light reflected - and strictly speaking they don't reflect but rather re-radiate. But that doesn't apply to fog/smoke.

 

Only if you convert it to a HUD unit...which would be the most dope interior mod ever.

 

I have the Rigid Industries led light kit for the Tacoma. I have the amber covers that snap on right over the light so I have the ability to switch between white or amber light depending on the color of light I need. Couldn't be happier with them.

 

@floaty73 Any way you could snap a picture of your fogs with the amber covers? I'm thinking of this same set up and was curious what it looked like.

 

Here you go, man. On the closeup, the amber cover has some bugs on it, it usually look better. Hope this helps!

 

Perfect, Thank you!

 

@Rome604 those are my 20w caliraised w rigid Amber covers work great in the fog I think im going to get the Amber fog kit from them soon too.

 

Cool, thanks man.