has anyone used led's for headlights

[ajjct]

robertisaar,... thanks,.. nice read.

[ajjct]

mcrews... please post the photo i just sent you...thank you.

[ajjct]

now the led lights didnt fit the projector headlight...bulbs were to big to fit in the hole...two things can be done...one, make holes bigger to fit light. and that may mess up projector headlights...or...two, buy the next smaller bulb which is 102 led's in 9005...thanks for all the info everyone gave me to help me.

[mcrews]

Originally Posted by ajjct

mcrews... please post the photo i just sent you...thank you.

send to email address i texted to ypu

[Christ]

i replaced the OE bulbs in my high beams on my Saturn [gone] with LED's... the intensity was about the same as running the DRL's at night [I did often] so it was manageable at low speeds in town and on back roads. If I got going on 'normal' roads I'd just flick the low-beams on and drive normally. They were plenty bright.

Got 'em on eBay for like $13 or so... they were 13w per side. Looked just like the dimensions of a standard headlight bulb but had a tower of SMD's instead.

[echo-francis]

Originally Posted by Christ

i replaced the OE bulbs in my high beams on my Saturn [gone] with LED's... the intensity was about the same as running the DRL's at night [I did often] so it was manageable at low speeds in town and on back roads. If I got going on 'normal' roads I'd just flick the low-beams on and drive normally. They were plenty bright.

Got 'em on eBay for like $13 or so... they were 13w per side. Looked just like the dimensions of a standard headlight bulb but had a tower of SMD's instead.

can you give more info about your leds like: price, lumens...

[Christ]

They were /I think/ 600 Lumen, which is about the intensity of GM's half-a-high-beam DRL setup.

As far as I recall, I paid $13 for the pair on eBay. Been about a year now I think, so I don't remember perfectly.. I sure was buying a lot of stuff around that time.

[mcrews]

here is the pic of the op's CURRENT setup (before led)


He caan give the specifics but it looks like the driver side is in a projector (because of cut off) but way toooo much glare.
The passenger side is off. not the same bulb type as driver side.

here are infiniti Q45 factory hid projectors w/ hid bulbs (there is a light on in the garage so they dont seem as bright)

[ajjct]

mcrews sent you other photo a better one...please post..
Now to the photo... driver side has 100w 7000k bulb (after market) in it and the passgener has a 65w 3500k-4000k bulb (oem) in it.
the glare is do to two things (1) need to be adjusted a bit or (2) the glare is from the white shop door...
Now if you compair the two photos the big defforence is the back round...which mine is on a white bay door at about 35/38 feet away. And the infiniti q45 is on mostly a green wall which dulls down the lights but if you look at the white door its brighter...need to have both on bay doors that are white,

[samwichse]

Long dead thread, but I was wondering about newer options, since LED is a very fast-moving technology right now.

Car H4 9006 LED Headlight High Power 5500K 22W 1200LUMENS Car LED Headlamp Bulb | eBay

Unfortunately, it's 5500k, but it's also 1200 lumens output, slightly higher than the stock Sylvania 9006 bulb in the low beams of my 04 Honda Civic. That one is 1000 lumens.

But they draw 22w each instead of the 55 watts each the Sylvanias draw.

This is especially important to me, as sitting in bad weather in traffic (there is nothing but traffic in bad weather), I can watch the SOC of my hybrid battery getting sucked down. This would take the headlight draw from ~1 amp from the HV battery down to ~0.5 amps. All in, it would give me half again as much time sitting there with the engine off before the engine would have to restart and start burning gas again.

The design looks totally different than those fog-light-only types, the power supply is broken out into a remote-mounted box, and there is a hefty aluminum heatsink hanging off the back. They also look like they've put some thought into having the light emitted from the same location as the filament in a stock bulb.