LED low beams

"mkbruin, Atlas VP" (mkbruin) 03/01/2018 at 08:57 • Filed to: None

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Does anyone make an LED drop-in bulb that’s worth a shit yet? Reviews from the past few years all show the throw is wider but not nearly as long as stock halogen. Has anything changed lately? (Halogen projector housing)

StndIbnz, Drives a MSRT8 > mkbruin, Atlas VP 03/01/2018 at 09:02

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Interested as well.

Nibby > mkbruin, Atlas VP 03/01/2018 at 09:03

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bro get LEDs that blind other drivers at night cause fuck ‘em!

BigBlock440 > mkbruin, Atlas VP 03/01/2018 at 09:19

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Pretty sure that’s just a limitation on LEDs, or at least it’s the case with every single LED bulb I’ve ever used. I think it’s because the light is coming from a point source (or multiple point sources) instead of a bulb. LEDs have a sharp cutoff, halogens kinda fade. LEDs will light up the immediate area really bright, but halogens will light up everywhere with some form of light, it just gets dimmer as you go out. I think it’ll be a while before we see LEDs with the range of halogens, and they won’t be the cheap ones that are showing up everywhere.

diplodicus > mkbruin, Atlas VP 03/01/2018 at 09:26

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I’ll try to remember to take a picture once it’s dark, but one of my e30s has stock halogens and the other was upgraded to LEDs. I personally prefer the color of halogens, but the leds do seem brighter. At least for what is immediately in front of you.

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > mkbruin, Atlas VP 03/01/2018 at 09:34

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No. Led and halogen are two different things. To imagine that one goes with the other is to think that beer mixed with coca cola is a thing that is drinkable.

Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. > mkbruin, Atlas VP 03/01/2018 at 10:04

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I’ve been looking for better lights for my Ram for a while, but the only ones I’ve found that aren’t shit are $800 because someone takes an HID module from another car with good headlights and mods a set of stock housings. So it’s the cost of both of those with labor in the middle.

e36Jeff now drives a ZHP > mkbruin, Atlas VP 03/01/2018 at 10:44

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The problem is that Halogen lights have the little metal cup on the top of the filament that blocks light from the top, hence the nice cutoff you get in the first picture. LEDs and HID’s use a mechanical shutter in front of the reflector to create the cutoff. Putting an HID or an LED in a Halogen reflector is just going to throw light like it was your high beams.

StndIbnz, Drives a MSRT8 > e36Jeff now drives a ZHP 03/01/2018 at 11:33

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Not true for all housings. I put HID blubs in my halogen housings and still get a nice cut off line from them.

e36Jeff now drives a ZHP > StndIbnz, Drives a MSRT8 03/01/2018 at 12:29

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are they projectors or reflectors? projectors might still use a shutter, and can be designed to only cast light down. reflectors are the guys that just blind everyone driving down the road.

StndIbnz, Drives a MSRT8 > e36Jeff now drives a ZHP 03/01/2018 at 13:20

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Reflectors surprisingly. They have a really good cut off line on them.