Hi Kenneth, I would never give up the rectangular headlights on my ´92, but I am thrilled about the 7" round LED headlight from trucklite and others. The problem is that the square LED headlights have the strange SAE "crown victoria" style and won´t replace the Vanagon´s main square headlight. I managed to get the other standard SAE headlights into a square vanagon grille and frame (the ones with rounded sides, don´t know how they are called), I am thinking of going that route regarding LED (as those are available). Check passenger side lamp here: www.v6bus.de/LLE1.jpg ...this was lens-type lamp test, back to standard headlamp meanwhile I currently have HID highbeam-only in my square grille lamps, that is a blast! However, they need some time to get bright. I think this is cheap 1st generation china stuff, they have like 3-4 "threshholds" to brighten up. Seems like the control module steps them up from dark to really great (3-5 sec of time). Raimund
Am 17.01.2017 um 17:05 schrieb kenneth wilford (Van-Again): > I have been experimenting with LED and HID bulbs in the square headlights > for a while now. Just waiting until I got enough experience with them to > talk to the List and my customers about them. I tried the HIDs first and > they worked kinda sorta. If you have low voltage problem at the > headlights, the HIDs will refuse to come on. :-( Since lots of Vanagons > have this issue and the light from them is very glaringly not stock, I have > decided that HIDs are a bad choice for the Vanagon although they do put out > a lot of light. There is the strange issue that the high beams on the HIDs > are still halogens too. Yeah weird. > > The LEDs seem to be the best option and I have found some bulbs that seem > to work well, and not really have much of a down side. I know folks are > switching over to the H4 round lights and that is fine and dandy but there > will always be those of us that actually like the square headlight look, > but want more light. Since the H4 squares have been off the scene for a > while now, going with an LED bulb in place of the crappy 9004 bulb in the > DOT housing is something I wanted to try out. I am probably going to do a > video on it on my Youtube channel in the near future and compare with the > stock DOT lights. Then we are going to be selling the LED bulbs through > our site at that point, so if you are interested let me know. They will be > in the $60 range for a pair of bulbs, which isn't too bad for something > that is pretty much a drop in replacement. Yes it is alot more than the > stock bulbs but something that actually puts out a nice light and isn't as > touchy about voltage, unloads the headlight switch without relays. There > are lots of pluses. > > Ken Wilford > John 3:16 > www.vanagain.com > > On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 10:31 AM, Raimund Feussner <ray@v6bus.de> wrote: > >> Alistair, >> >> please also report any oncoming traffic that feels blinded by your LEDs. >> This is mostly the reason why police stops you with non-streetlegal >> bulbs...in Germany. >> >> Thanks >> Raimund >> >> >> Am 17.01.2017 um 15:05 schrieb Johann Koenig: >> >>> Just picked up 7" LED buckets: >>> http://www.van-cafe.com/home/van/page_2564_141/led_headlight_pair.html >>> >>> Have not installed yet but when I stopped by to pick them up yesterday the >>> staff said they are very good. >>> >>> On Jan 16, 2017 11:40 PM, "Alistair Bell" <albell@shaw.ca> wrote: >>> >>> I had to try, the bulbs looked like they would work. And did they? >>>> See here on my blog >>>> >>>> https://shufti.blog/2017/01/16/vanagon-h4-led-light-bulb-experiment/ >>>> >>>> Wasn't a complete waste of time and money, it was interesting. >>>> >>>> Alistair >>>> >>>> > > -- > Thanks, > Ken Wilford > John 3:16 > www.vanagain.com |
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