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The primary issue is LED need roughly 9 cm/2 cooling surface area for passive cooling per watt of consumption. These typically consume 2-3 watts yet have no where near 18-27 cm/2 cooling area in fact usually NONE :-)
yes you running without alternator will help a TON since the nitwits usually design for 12v forgetting that 12v is DEAD 12v battery and 12.9 is full charge and alternator power is 13.8v so yeah they can die fast :-)
please let us know how it goes. it DOES look very bright! alas your incan bulb was intended to run at 13.8 so its dimmer at your 12.6 but the LED could care less (as far as lumens) between 12.6 and 13.8
LED's rock ! just wish they would put just a tiny bit more effort into designing them. no use having a 50,000 hour diode if the resistor is only good for 5000 hours :-) hehe
haha just noticed your tag
Volts startle, amps melt
thats good :-)
I SO can not wait till I can go electric!! the moment its feasible on a budget to get 65 miles worst case from one I am switching faster than you can saw switch :-) (commute is one way 54 miles 3 people plus gear sometimes trailer (tiny trailer)
I can charge at work so the moment I can manage that bahbye gasoline. (just reminds me how much I hate GM :-)
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