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[Bitter]

33 minutes ago, terrytek said:

how the hell would that work on a stickshift? would it yank the gear out of your hand and move it to a better gear?

 

i hear those things perform way worse than competitors at the time. like in a competition with 4 other competitors during its run at the time, it placed dead last.

Perform in what metric? It's a mid to late 90's minivan, there was no performance.

[vetali]

50 minutes ago, Bitter said:

Perform in what metric? It's a mid to late 90's minivan, there was no performance.

0-mcdonalds drivethru times.

[FuzzyYellow]

Installed LEDs in the Accord tonight. They’re a bit better than halogens, but not quite what I expected. It’s a 6000 lumen kit I believe. 6000k color temp.

 

High beam comparison:

 

DRL

Spoiler

Low beams

Spoiler

 

High beams

Spoiler

And I’m now greeted with a DRL warning light.

 

[PlayStation 2]

1 hour ago, terrytek said:

how the hell would that work on a stickshift? would it yank the gear out of your hand and move it to a better gear?

It's a thing that comes from the late 1980s because fuel economy at any cost was a must. Basically, the car forces you to go from 1st gear to 4th gear if it doesn't see that you're driving quick or with any sort of urgency, i.e. if you're accelerating pretty slowly.

[Bitter]

Bullshit those bulbs do 6000 Lumen, maybe as a pair before thermal droop and probably not even then. If you can ID the chips and check the current draw you can see the wattage they're being driven at and math out the actual lumen output, I'd say in the neighborhood of 1800-2100 lumen actual per bulb before they get hot and drop output due to thermals. Just like a CPU, a LED is a diode and sheds waste heat, the more heat the less the output and the shorter the life span.

[JokerProduction]

54 minutes ago, Bitter said:

Bullshit those bulbs do 6000 Lumen, maybe as a pair before thermal droop and probably not even then. If you can ID the chips and check the current draw you can see the wattage they're being driven at and math out the actual lumen output, I'd say in the neighborhood of 1800-2100 lumen actual per bulb before they get hot and drop output due to thermals. Just like a CPU, a LED is a diode and sheds waste heat, the more heat the less the output and the shorter the life span.

 

Its sooo common with Automotive LED's that they just spew off giant numbers.  They just look at the max wattage of the chip from the spec sheet and completely disregard what the driver is actually sending to them.  I bought some 224W lightbars for my truck but when actually measured they pulled 72W regardless of what voltage I threw at them because they have CC drivers.

 

That being said I bought some LED bulbs for the GT4 that showed up today.  Had one burnt out foglight and both parking lights were done.  Fog lights are kinda neat they are both white and amber and switch everytime you cycle power to them.  It works out good since its an older car and gives you full manual control of lighting.  Not any brighter than stock.

 

Parking lights are RGB and have tons of modes.  Needed to replace them because there the only lights on the front that flash when you lock/unlock otherwise there pretty pointless.  Still rocking the 55w HID till they need replacing.

 

 

 

https://i.imgur.com/KcApwqN.mp4

 

 

 

 

 

[Bitter]

They're cool till they get out of sync and you get one white and one yellow. :lol:

[bcredeur97]

1 hour ago, Bitter said:

Bullshit those bulbs do 6000 Lumen, maybe as a pair before thermal droop and probably not even then. If you can ID the chips and check the current draw you can see the wattage they're being driven at and math out the actual lumen output, I'd say in the neighborhood of 1800-2100 lumen actual per bulb before they get hot and drop output due to thermals. Just like a CPU, a LED is a diode and sheds waste heat, the more heat the less the output and the shorter the life span.

Yep. Liquid cool your headlights guys!

[Guest]

2 hours ago, bcredeur97 said:

Yep. Liquid cool your headlights guys!

Technically when it rains most of my car is liquid cooled. Sometimes the driver is too. 

[iDeFecZx]

25 minutes ago, floofer said:

Technically when it rains most of my car is liquid cooled. Sometimes the driver is too. 

"sometimes"

[Guest]

1 hour ago, iDeFecZx said:

"sometimes"

My feet started to get wet, I didn’t fix a firewall plug properly 

[AlwaysFSX]

15 hours ago, warmmilk said:

haha, where there's a will, there's a way

[FuzzyYellow]

8 hours ago, Bitter said:

Bullshit those bulbs do 6000 Lumen, maybe as a pair before thermal droop and probably not even then. If you can ID the chips and check the current draw you can see the wattage they're being driven at and math out the actual lumen output, I'd say in the neighborhood of 1800-2100 lumen actual per bulb before they get hot and drop output due to thermals. Just like a CPU, a LED is a diode and sheds waste heat, the more heat the less the output and the shorter the life span.

6000 lumen kit so 3000 per bulb. They’ve got pretty gnarly heatsinks on the back, so I guess we’ll see how they do. 

[Real_PhillBert]

7 hours ago, bcredeur97 said:

Yep. Liquid cool your headlights guys!

One of the guys in my office did an LED headlight conversion where the bulbs had big heatsinks and little tiny fans on them. 

 

EDIT: I've been really considering doing an LED conversion as well, just haven't taken the plunge yet.

[FuzzyYellow]

23 minutes ago, Real_PhillBert said:

One of the guys in my office did an LED headlight conversion where the bulbs had big heatsinks and little tiny fans on them. 

 

EDIT: I've been really considering doing an LED conversion as well, just haven't taken the plunge yet.

lots of them have fans, especially the more powerful ones. Mine are fanless however.

 

These are the ones I got. Very cheap, and DOT approved.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07K43XKDF/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

[Real_PhillBert]

51 minutes ago, FuzzyYellow said:

lots of them have fans, especially the more powerful ones. Mine are fanless however.

 

These are the ones I got. Very cheap, and DOT approved.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07K43XKDF/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Here's the ones I'm considering, but it's $450 for low beam, high beam, and fogs. Which kinda stings. 

 

EDIT for less derp:

 

https://www.xenonhids.com/low-beam-h11-led-headlights-nova-series.html?i=5A4Zx

[Wauthar]

Is there any love for oldtimers in here?  

I bought my 'Little Red' in August 2017. 1970, 1200cc, 34hp, ~x25,000km and I love her to death.

 

 

More photo's: https://imgur.com/a/TnJlb61

[FuzzyYellow]

29 minutes ago, Real_PhillBert said:

Here's the ones I'm considering, but it's $450 for low beam, high beam, and fogs. Which kinda stings. 

was there supposed to be a link there?

[Real_PhillBert]

3 minutes ago, FuzzyYellow said:

was there supposed to be a link there?

Lol. Yes but I'm full of derp this morning.

 

https://www.xenonhids.com/low-beam-h11-led-headlights-nova-series.html?i=5A4Zx

[FuzzyYellow]

43 minutes ago, Real_PhillBert said:

Lol. Yes but I'm full of derp this morning.

 

https://www.xenonhids.com/low-beam-h11-led-headlights-nova-series.html?i=5A4Zx

ouch. Spendy.

[FuzzyYellow]

y'all are rich! I spend $69 on low and high beams combined!

[terrytek]

3 minutes ago, FuzzyYellow said:

y'all are rich! I spend $69 on low and high beams combined!

when your low/high beams are just one bulb only

[FuzzyYellow]

1 minute ago, terrytek said:

when your low/high beams are just one bulb only

my low and high beams are separate bulbs.

[Bananasplit_00]

Finally able to take the bike to school! Super fun to do, love riding it Did however leave the fuel tap on so when i came to take it home there was quite a puddle of gas under it

[bcredeur97]

17 minutes ago, FuzzyYellow said:

y'all are rich! I spend $69 on low and high beams combined!

I just buy halogens