Thread: New driving lights...which ones?

Originally Posted by bee utey

For those people not interested in bright blue-white LED's I recently spotted these:

JW Speaker H4 Hi/Lo 4000K LED kit WARM WHITE headlight bulb for HUMMER HILUX 708315997335 | eBay

The first H4 LED's I've seen in 4000K, look to be as well designed as the Philips ones mentioned as to chip placement.

Yep, 6300k would be blue. The 5000k HID's I used to have in the headlights were slightly blue.

4000k should be kinda normal.

DL

Nuggetstuff has some new `130w LEDs, need to upgrade the supply loom to handle the extra amps though.

Originally Posted by edddo

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I have decided to go with these for now thks AK. PHILIPS X-treme Ultinon H4 12953BWX2 LED Hi/Lo 6200K 150% 23W Whi Car Light C AU | eBay

Once in I will see if I need anything else and go from there.

I'm pretty sure you'll like them. Compared to the std headlights at least.
And it'd be good to hear your thoughts on 'em re: performance, and mainly colour.
I don't find them as blue as the specs reckon they should be.

The Ultra Vision nitro 80w led lights from opposite lock are 195mm from mounting bar to the top. I selected these because they were compact in height and depth. They are very white but I have xenon headlights so there is not too great a temperature difference. Awesome lights for distance and spread.

They would be very bright if used with halogen headlights.

For me it's FYRLYT's all the way . Have 2 set's of the 5000's . Very happy

Originally Posted by 33chinacars

For me it's FYRLYT's all the way . Have 2 set's of the 5000's . Very happy

All good and same with me but FYRLYT don’t fit too tall

Originally Posted by weeds

All good and same with me but FYRLYT don’t fit too tall

Bugger

My 2 shillings worth for the OP if I may gentlepeople:
LED inserts in existing luminaires don’t comply and are illegal because the reflectors aren’t designed to throw the light appropriately. They blind oncoming Old Farts, confound your insurance and attract the Constabulary.
LED insert high beams are generally deliberately dulled down to the same wattage as low beams, to get through compliance rules, so high beam power is virtually no different.

LED spotties connected to your high beam cct however are not limited.
My 5 year old x 4 LED spotties produce about the same light as 32 x 100W quartz halogens.
LED spotties are far more efficient than any other type.
They light instantly, with no filament that will fail with increased switching.
They have no filaments to fail or replace with use and vibration.
They use far less power from battery or engine.
The higher the temp, the more efficient.
Lower temp ones give less light for the same power.

I’m an RN with particular expertise in males (physiology, ageing, hormones, Landrovers etc etc). I’m also an increasingly Old Fart with a life long passion for electrickery. I’m also allergic to light, which means I do almost all my extended driving at night, which means that I have had to research this stuff ad nauseum:
The health implications of high temp lighting are at best irrelevant and at worst, of far less import than poor lighting’s potential for fatigue, hitting animals, hitting fixed objects, driving off the road, getting cranky, burning the snags, divorce, or heaven forbid hurting our Landy, etc etc.
Any interference with our biological clocks can only be a good thing, if we’re doing any significant time behind the wheel at night.
Although chronic bright lighting of computing gear is a problem (close, high temp, high lux, stimulating activity), the amount of vehicular light exposure and time of exposure is quite irrelevant to the general driving public (actual lux hitting our eyes from reflected vehicular lighting in practice is inconsequential).

Quartz Hal: cheap, dull, wasteful, high failure rate.
Vapour: very expensive, complex seperate electronics, very bright, slow to light, high failure rate.
LED: medium expensive, less complex inbuilt electronics, very bright, instant light, nil filament.

Edit: Jaycar flog LEDs of varying sizes and similar quality to the yew bewt brand namers, at significantly less cost ... IMHO ...

Having said all that .... I must now return to my crypt ...