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Old Dec 16, 2002 | 01:07 PM
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LED Headlights

anyone know of any LED headlights out there?
Old Dec 16, 2002 | 01:35 PM
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I really doubt that any are available.

Why do you want LED headlights ?
Old Dec 16, 2002 | 01:41 PM
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Just thought they might look cool...

I just want to upgrade the stock lights...
Old Dec 16, 2002 | 01:50 PM
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None available, and you're not going to like them even if you had them, not to mention for the qty of LEDs that you'd need you could probably have a HID kit. Hyberbright white LEDs are EXPENSIVE. And this isn't even dealing with the beam pattern that you need to control precisely... not an easy thing to do.

I'm building a set of LED tail lights and that's running me about $100, and those are hyperbright RED/Blue LEDs, plus circuit boards, and housings.

For your headlights you're probably best off doing wither a Hella, or similar setup, or if you've got the $, go for a PIAA setup.
Old Dec 16, 2002 | 02:28 PM
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Say, how are those tail lights coming anyways? I've been very interested in seeing some pics of those things. Sounds like a sweet idea.
Old Dec 16, 2002 | 04:19 PM
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I wish I could say I've got them working.... well I've got the prototypes built... circuit boards atleast.. and they're BRIGHT... I mean with just the parking lights on (Which is 6 LEDs) you can't look directly at it from about 6' away... with the full bulb on (which is 18 LEDs) they light the wall of my office right up from pitch black. I've also got a Blue LED mounted directly in the middle of all 6 bulbs to give that Blue Dot Effect...

I'm hopefully going to be building the housings right after the new year, and I'm very much considering building a new set of circuit boards (Seeing I've got a setup now to create better boards than I did when I first made these). Then it's just a matter of soldering and soldering, and soldering some more.

I've been WAY to busy to do anything.. actually I've got about 4 projects like that that I'm working on... but haven't had time to do any of them... now that it's christmas, and I'm working 30 hours a week, and taking 18 credits...

But now that I've got a Digital Camera, I'll set them up on the test fixture and take some pics, and or movies of them. I've actually got the sequencer working for them as well. I had to custom build a Flasher unit though.. just becasue I didn't like the way the one I bought worked... The rate of flash changed.. which I didn't like when trying to set the sequence of the tail lights at a set rate.
Old Dec 17, 2002 | 03:30 AM
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How bout the Hella FF75´s?
Old Dec 17, 2002 | 07:30 AM
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Those are good. There's another thread going right now that I think you even replied too??? about them...that's a good setup and an imporvement over stock.
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