Anybody ever tried LED High Beams?

ive been seeing more and more of those...i guess you would have to experiment with them....one of those sez 80 lumens.....
 
LS4me said:
I say nay. They don't mention anything about light output or brightness. Just that it looks like luxury cars.
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They do say the out put is 6000K, not enough out put for me, I prefer 4000k to 4300K. I will stick with Sylvania Silverstar Ultra's.
 
gcwimmer said:
They do say the out put is 6000K, not enough out put for me, I prefer 4000k to 4300K. I will stick with Sylvania Silverstar Ultra's.
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That's just the color temperature output. It lists no wattage.
 
LS4me said:
That's just the color temperature output. It lists no wattage.
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LED is a whole different animal when it comes to wattage and would be hard to compare to incandescent, but it list 2.7 watts in the other ad.
 
gcwimmer said:
LED is a whole different animal when it comes to wattage and would be hard to compare to incandescent, but it list 2.7 watts in the other ad.
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That's less that many small LED flashlights.
 
Don't try them ... they do not work .. I had someone give me a set to try and they don't put out ...

They look bright looking at them but they do not project ... but it's up to you if you want to try them ... I have a set of 9005s you can have ...
 
mespock said:
Don't try them ... they do not work .. I had someone give me a set to try and they don't put out ...

They look bright looking at them but they do not project ... but it's up to you if you want to try them ... I have a set of 9005s you can have ...
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They even say not recommended for low beam.
 
They say not recommended for low beam because the output is to bright, I don't know, I may try those fog leds to see the output, if it is pretty sweet then I'll try to high beams, I know my high beams are the sylvania silverstar ultra but it's not pleasing to me.
 
They are not intended as driving lights. They may say high beams to use as flashing signals but not to light. Like mespock said, they are bright to look at, but dont give off a lot of light. You could probably seem them miles away, but you could not see a person 20 from you with those. Go hids if you want white light, but prob not smart to go with hids in the hi beam. I say maybe hoen bulbs if it it's the highs you want.
 
so just some Hoen Bulbs and a Heavy Duty Harness should do the trick for high beams? I know leds are BRIGHT, I have a few flash lights and license leds and they have some strong output, thought it would be interesting to see some high beam leds
 
605RezlifeLS said:
They say not recommended for low beam because the output is to bright, I don't know, I may try those fog leds to see the output, if it is pretty sweet then I'll try to high beams, I know my high beams are the sylvania silverstar ultra but it's not pleasing to me.
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No, they say not recommended for low beams because they are not bright enough. There are legal requirements on minimum (and maximum) brightness for low beams. There's no minimum requirement for high beams if the low beams stay on.

Get a couple of 3W LED flashlights and try driving by the light from them.
 
One thing with LEDs is there are so many types it is crazy. I partake in saltwater aquariums and the light requirements for many of the organisms is rediculous. Recently people have ventured into LEDs. With the high power LEDs, aquarist can use 15-20 high power LEDs rated at 1 watt a piece and match the Color Temp and Lumens of a 50 watt metal halide fixture.

I think that LED flashlights use some small LEDs. I doubt those headlights put out enough light to actually be effective. Im not sure how bright the SMD LEDs are compared to high-power LEDs from Cree and Luxeon.

What we need to do is start using plasma bulbs. Everyone would be blind though. See below...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTGsM9pplUs
 
It has taken a long time for LEDs to become bright enough to be used for some lighting purposes. I was in school in the 70s when Popular Mechanics magazxine was saying LEDs were the head light of the future for the automobile.

We are finally almost getting there but the general opinion is that LEDS do not project well enough and their color spectrum is still not correct for human eyes to pick out things we need to see at a distance. I buy almost every LED flashlight I find for camping or walking at night. None of them really does as well as a regular flashlight. They don't project and I can't see things like potholes to fall into. They are much better today than they were 10 years ago, but not there quite yet.

I think one or two high end luxury autos have LEDs for head lights, I think Audi is one and the car was something like $100K +. But for general purpose auto head lights I would wait awhile. They WILL get better and cheaper. Cheap LEDS now don't work, they are just cheap.

Just my opinion, reading, experience,

Jim Henderson
 
Jim Henderson said:
It has taken a long time for LEDs to become bright enough to be used for some lighting purposes. I was in school in the 70s when Popular Mechanics magazxine was saying LEDs were the head light of the future for the automobile.

We are finally almost getting there but the general opinion is that LEDS do not project well enough and their color spectrum is still not correct for human eyes to pick out things we need to see at a distance. I buy almost every LED flashlight I find for camping or walking at night. None of them really does as well as a regular flashlight. They don't project and I can't see things like potholes to fall into. They are much better today than they were 10 years ago, but not there quite yet.

I think one or two high end luxury autos have LEDs for head lights, I think Audi is one and the car was something like $100K +. But for general purpose auto head lights I would wait awhile. They WILL get better and cheaper. Cheap LEDS now don't work, they are just cheap.

Just my opinion, reading, experience,

Jim Henderson
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i agree i messed around with all kinds off led's, they are very bright to look at but the way they are made makes the projectory of the light limited in a sense of degrees of "vision" like if you too far to one side of it you see nothing. the problem is that they are to focused, just like a lazer is very bright but would make for a :q:q:q:qy light
 
The Audi R8 V10 has them standard, optional on the 8 cylinder. And the Lexus LS has them optional. Both are LED low beams, utilizing several clusters of surface mount led's projected/focused thru a lens similar to those on projector headlamps. Also, in reference to the Ebay find, SMD is not a manufacturer (that I know of) but instead simply means surface mount device. And in response to 2002_lincolnLS, many LED's have viewing angles of or near 180 degrees, but when encased in a flashlight for example, they become focused. I deal with LED's almost every day, as I am an applications engineer for Newark Electronics, one of North America's leading electronics distributor.

Tom
 
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