7" LED Headlights - what's the go?

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Originally Posted by D2lee

we shouldn't just let the chance of being caught deter us from doing illegal stuff, particularly when the consequences are causing someone's death or injury.

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Couldn't agree more. I was merely stating that you are very unlikely to get pinched. Once, on a dark, wet twilight Melbourne night I went to turn right. I was behind a line of stopped cars, so much red light was visible. At the very last second I spotted the car coming towards me with only his parkers on. These parkers had a red filter on them. Idiot. Things like that should have the police putting that car off the road, but I see similar things all the time. The law used to be, only white or amber lights on thew front, and only white, amber and red on the back. It was illegal to have head and fog lights on at the same time. These days nobody gives a stuff, least of all the coppers.

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Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

While HID lamps produce much less heat and produce a white light, ADR require a number of other functions like self levelling and headlamp washers to be legal.

LED are still yet to be as good as HID but are rapidly getting better.

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The biggest advantage LED has over HID is they are instant, while HID need to warm up. They are also plug and play on older vehicles. If you want to fit them to more modern vehicles you need to make sure they have resistors built in, or the computer can have conniptions. Found that out the hard way on the Scania.

I did some bench testing on some Chinese lights, as well as the Truck Lite and JW Speaker (Later in the thread)

LED Headlights for Defender/County/RRC etc

Cheers, Murray

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Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

Even if a Halogen or Xenon lamp has lots of available voltage and current most of its work is used generating heat and yellowish light. For decent illumination you usually need to have illegally high wattage bulbs.

While HID lamps produce much less heat and produce a white light, ADR require a number of other functions like self levelling and headlamp washers to be legal.

LED are still yet to be as good as HID but are rapidly getting better.

Interestingly on my recently sold Perentie 48-852, the lamps were a dim yellow orange. I swapped them with a pair of reflector units from a civilian 110, with the headlamp buckets and wiring tail off the same 110 and ran a new ground wire back to the firewall on both sides (picking up the original ground post behind the outer mudguard in the process). The change in the brightness and colour was significant.

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Simply replacing the lights is not fixing the underlying problem,fix the loom first. Pat