Have a project. It consists in a offroad light, with a 2inch reflector, and six 3/4inch reflector (or four 1inch reflector).
I think I will use XML U2 lights (I have a nitecore TM15 and those XML looks great).
The aim is to thow the light like the high beam of ordinary cars.
The beam of the nitecore looks great, but the throw is not far enough.
First, I’m looking for the reflector, I look in kaidomain, but they have no specs for the reflector (cd/lm for example).
Also, on dealextrem, there are no specs.
Can you give me some tips in order to begin my project, as pros or cons of what I want to do.
Again, sorry for my english
Here is the picture of what I want. I will do this on CAD soon.
If I wanted off-road lights. I would use HID off road lights. They would be better than LED. In order to get the output of HID, you would have to use multiple LEDs and the HID would still out throw the LED. Just my thoughts.
If it's just to have a project, then that is a different story.
Hello.
My car has HID low beam (with lenticular optics) and HID hi-beam (projector optics), but problem is warm up time of HID in high beam, which is not secure.
I planed to convert the lenticular optics in bi-xenon (with morimoto bi-xenon) in order to “reduce” the warm up time, thanks to the solenoid of the bixenon system.
If fact, i want an additional hi-beam with those led above.
I bought 2 morimoto bixenon kits, but they are too big to fit in the place where I want to put the led (my project).
OEM highbeam with xenon have high throw (but not as wide as i want).
Think that pictures/photos will talk much more. I will take them shortly.
Edit : my car is halogen OEM and I fit aftermarket hid. Please no questions about illegal issues… thanks
That’s my first project before I started looking after LED.
And it could be interesting (low-beam of this kit become foglight and hi-beam of this kit act like a third hi-beam)
But it is too long to fin behind the foglight and the front bumper.
Besides, the bulds is not protected against dusty environment, I have to make an enclosure to protect them.
But heat cannot exit if there is an enclosure (epoxy encloure for sure).
it can be vented, be the glass and reflector will remain dirty quickly.
You could possible have legal issues and definitely have a bunch of unfriendly people driving at you using reflector'd for LED's for your headlight's. Head light's are safe (and legal) because they have vertical cutoff's to keep the light from blinding oncoming driver's. Light will come out of those reflector's in a 360* cone shape which will be very bad for oncoming traffic. Note it could also be pretty bad for you in a foggy situation, made worse by using cool white LED's (the yellower / redder light it the better it cut's fog and smoke).
Another thing to consider- dedoming the LED's will greatly increase the total throw regardless of what reflector is used, it can up to double the throw of with all other parameter's the same.
And finally- the difference between XM-L U2 and XM-L2 U2 is the XM-L2 is a 2nd generation LED, thats why you can find XM-L's for cheaper. The "XM-L2" is the name of that model LED, the "U2" suffix is the output bin code (that tells us the output flux) XM-L U2 and XM-L2 U2 are the same output bin but old and new generation's of LED.
C_k, I agree 100%. FWIW OP did say “please no questions about illegal issues”, which is why I didn’t bring it directly myself. That said, I am also uncomfortable with the intended purpose of this conversation. That’s why I suggested the mini bi-xenon projectors. They should retro into most headlight casings (I thought?) and have the moving high/low cutoff to properly form the beam. It seems that OP’s headlights are extra-small though. I still suspect that a skilled individual could safely and securely install HID projectors in there.
Hello.
My car have OEM lenticular halogen headlight for “cruising” (lo-beam) with other people with ECE LHD patern.
I also have OEM projector with halogen for openroad, with no car on the otherside (hi-beam).
What I want :
-Remove OEM lenticular (lo-beam) to put Morimoto bi-xenon retrofit kit. Luckily, the have the same size, I just have little modification to put them in the headlight. Besides, morimoto have DoT pattern that is more userfriendly with other people.
-Put a HID in the OEM reflector (hi-beam)
Morimoto retrofit kit seems not bright enough with test I made.
And the warmup time of HID in the Hi-beam is too long.
-So Led in the fog light is good to me.
long range, no warmup time, wide beam, easy fitting in the aesthetic bumper.
For sure, this LED projector is not to be use in fog light or lo-beam, just in hi-beam with no one in front of me. Don’t want to bling people…
I have seen some topics with dedomed LED, i will looking more in this mod.
