red brake light bulbs

[Laird Scooby]

Originally Posted by baggy798

Mine passed the MOT with cheapos, so that's not really indicative of anything. I posted a comparison 3 years ago in gloomy lighting conditions, curiously very similar 'before' and 'after' pics! Whichever way you cut it, the 5w side is too bright.

Two newer styles of LED bulbs available now, maybe they'll be better.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/COB-LED-4...s/232936909136

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/380-Cob-L...s/372396488110

I still think there's more of a difference on these but there you go. Those new ones have been around for quite a while, the triangular shaped one is kind of weird but the other one with strips like filaments might just work well. Depends on the Lumen (Lm) output, the original filament lamps are about 50-80Lm for the 5W and about 300-350Lm for the 21W. I know the 21W part of the ones i linked to is 660Lm but of course is red so is on a particular wavelength. Can't remember the Lm output of the 5W part but something in the back of my mind says it's about 120Lm - might be wrong though.