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Originally Posted by rxtian
Hi
I fitted LEDs into the interior lights on our C30 and V60, they are working fine but I have not had them in long.
As far as I can reason, the housing is designed to accomadate the heat output of the bulb, and I don't think the LED is going to put out more heat.
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Do you remember where you sourced the LEDs and what brand you went for?
my concern was the 'can bus' type ones have a resistor to increase the current draw to match the halogen. However a resistor just expells the excess energy as heat. The Halogen is a combination of heat and light. So the LED resistor combo may in fact output more of the wattage as heat than the Halogen. For the smaller 2watt bulbs this probably doesn't matter, but 5 or 10 watt bulbs you are talking potentially very high temps (in theory). I was pleased you replied as it's best to find out how they are running in the real world.
cheers