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Originally Posted by mpg_numbers_guy
Looks good. Have you measured the actual power consumption of the bulbs on low beam vs. high beam?
How are the low beams vs. high beams in nighttime visibility? The low beams on mine are better the original halogens (but are inferior to my mom's Prius HID low beams) but the high beams blow everything out of the water.
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I'll throw my DC meter on one of them tonight.
Just as a point of reference, my 35w HIDs drew 6.8 amps a pair, or ~95 watts (47.5 ea), give or take, and low beams were generated by a flap that obscured half the light. They were definitely brighter both high and low beam, had a warmer color (good for fog penetration), had zero light scatter (the LEDs have a very small amount), and no hot spots. However, had one of my ballasts gone out I might have been a week without a headlight, with no chance of getting a local replacement, and I didn't have an easy way to adjust them as they were too heavy for the reflector housing screws to hold in place. I had epoxied them into a fixed position that was very close to where they needed to be, and tilted the entire housing to get them perfectly level.
I think i need to do some left/right adjustment on my current lights. It's a bit difficult to tell where the center of the beam is without a step in the beam pattern.