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Dec 6th, 2019, 12:38 | #11 | |
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I had those, I tested it myself, I ended up immediately replacing projectors with clear lenses. It wont make HID conversion legal (no self levelling or washers) but wont affect other road users as much. 4000K, 5000K, 6000K - thats mostly a personal feeling, scientifically - 4200/4300K light will have most lumens and will be brightest. Anything over or under will be LESS bright, but still my eyes feel better with 5000K bulbs than 4300K and sense of "lightness" is better. Unless its a crazy value like 8/10000K with almost purple light output - it will be fine :}
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Dec 6th, 2019, 13:37 | #13 |
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hence my old grey lamps still kept in the box, just plug&play once a year and done.
Volvo did that part really well, I have to give them that
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Dec 7th, 2019, 10:32 | #14 |
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I think its about time we all did some LED bulb tests....
HID still seem to be superior in terms of what is available from a single bulb, but given these cars have an 'always on' design, getting a good LED bulb that works well in our projectors seems like a good idea. |
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Dec 9th, 2019, 17:40 | #17 | |
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I may test the LEDs one day just for sake of experiment and I really wonder how GOOD LEd bulb (like those expensive Phillips from link) will work on the same clear lens projector as I use, better/worse or what... [NERD MODE ON] Only problem is - you will never get the same gains from retro-LEDs as you would with LED-designed headlamp. In our case, you can only provide much more bright light source into a halogen/xenon designed reflector and lens and hope it will work out. In some cases it does, in some it doesnt (seen a lot of failed LED applications as it is NOT only reflector+lens that create proper light output - actual light source matter aswell). But you never achieve results as seen on new cars. Jus for example, a comparison of pics I took last week (yes, I am the weirdo photographing light patterns, sue me...). I have a pretty good HID retro with bixenon projectors and powerful Xenarc burners, but light output is still hapmered by old technology (lens+reflector) and beam spread is laughable comparing to proper led headlamp. pic 1- Audi A6 in front of Renault on the picture - see the amount of side-light provided by shaped LED beam on the right wall. My beam on the same wall is non-existent due to narrow beam pattern of retrofitted projectors. pic2 - BMW 7 series, beam shape is pretty similar to mine as for amount of left-throw, but the difference light intensity of xenon+reflector&lens, versus direct-throw LED is, again - insane. Arrow points where my beam is overtaken by BMW's LED throw. Amazing. bottom line is - LEDs are future and are already much better/efficient than xenons, but we are VERY limited as for retrofitting options and I am not sure if there are any gains over HIDs if used in our lamps, given price/problems/heat dissipation/uniformity issues. Happy to be proven wrong, but so far, for me, HIDS>LEDS on our headlamp design. [NERD MODE OFF] :}
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My problem with LED lighting is their colour.... blue is BAD for your eyes.. the eyes adjust slower and it is harder to focus. The reason these cars all have blue LEDS is because that is the cheapest, brightest output available to produce. If you want soft warm yellow, it requires a coating over the original blue. I want warm white LED headlamps (4300k) but they simply arent available. Though I hold high hopes as we can buy LED bayontte cap bulbs for indoors that are putting out better light than filament bulb equivalent. There is definitely a reason why all of our smart phones and smart TVs are now coming with anti-blue "sleeping" modes that change the colour of the screen to yellow...they know that blue tint is bad for our health and they have to offer something to alieviate that... I'm surprised Volvo havent been all over that aspect, given their reputation in Safety. Then, having said that, look at the crappy headlights they gave us in the P1 cars. Last edited by T5R92011; Dec 9th, 2019 at 22:30. |
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Dec 10th, 2019, 13:10 | #20 | |
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agreed with colour issue, also refraction caused by lenses (especially on french cars) make the output VIOLET is just ridiculous. Also every manufacturer seem to choose their Kelvin rating at their own will and not much can be done to change it. Was driving in front of this 2019 V60 and its dual-LED headlamps, while providing a nice spread and pattern, are stupidly blue, like 6500K as per my eye, terrible light colour! Best so far seem to be Audis/BMWs that have output close to pure white 5000K. This I would be OK with. Clan - maybe share the link here, if worth recommending? - atleast proven and tested so better for others to get those rather than uncertain chinese cr*p
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