Most of the bright blue lights you see are HID kits that have retrofitted. These have been popular for the last 10 or 12 years ever since the OEMs started using them. People just toss them in and donât readjust their lights. Or else the light source is not where it should be and it messes up the beam pattern.
Leds in cars is a relatively new thing the last 2 or 3 years. There are not many out there on the road yet. Most led kits use big round leds that are bright (some are not), but donât mix well with reflectors. Again the beam patterns get all screwed up.
Led headlights are still in their infancy and are moving away from fan cooled and huge emitters to passive cooling and small emitter groups that mimic the size, shape and location of the original filaments. These will give very good beam patterns as well as much more brightness.
On a projector light, the light source is less critical because you have the cutoff shield which prevents glare.
âGoodâ led lights for reflectors are quite hard to find.
Here are some âgoodâ leds I found for my 86 Honda motorcycle that has a reflector headlight. Note the sharp cutoff (just like stock), plus itâs much brighter than stock.
Forget about it. The threadâs been hijacked by a bunch of people who clearly get enjoyment in annoying others. Theyâre in here specifically because they get a lot of visibility. You know, like a bunch of attention seeking teens with too much time on their hands, except without the excuse of being young. No amount of arguing will reason with people who donât give a damn about others because âweâre having fun in hereâ.
Well personally I prefer the off topic banter than nothing at all when there is nothing to report, I suppose you would complain about lack of posts if there were days or even weeks between posts due to no off topic posts, besides where is the on topic content in your post
Hmm, in the people having fun in this thread I do not recognise âattention seekingâ and âenjoyment in annoying othersâ. I just see people having fun, thatâs all, IMO off-topic fun is a good tradition on BLF (and thereâs no age limit for that! )
+1 :+1: ⌠Thanks for saying that nicely David! I can now just agree with you and be spared writing something not so âpleasantâ.
Now⌠back to our regularly scheduled program of âchildish attention seeking funâ while also patiently awaiting news of the Q8 variety.
Another well written, nice reply! +1 :+1:
You guys are great!!! You have litterally save me from death by RUDE button.
Thank you, Thank You, THANK YOU!!!
No, I would not. Weâve had slow weeks before in this thread and it was just fine. In fact, this thread was fine for the better part of a year. Itâs only recently that it has become a mess.
I get it that people are waiting and bored and some have a lot of time to kill. But that does not have to be done in here. I mean, would you lot go stomp on RMMâs store thread that way? Surely not! At least not that Iâve seen so far on BLF. So why the lack of respect for this project?
And stop with the excuses of âjust read the topic/first postâ. You know very well that not everything discussed ends up in there. And that which does often does only after the discussion is done.
Well when something turns into something real like the car LEDs it would be nice to starts separate topic for it, if only to gt info easy to find strengthening the BLF knowledge base
Isânt it up to the OP to decide if (s)he wants/doesnât want OT posts in his/her thread? In this case it is up to the miller to decide I guess, after all itâs his thread and he has to stay on top of things to keep the list updated and answer relevant questions.
I donât really get annoyed by the OT chatter but when I see like +20 new posts I always hope for some relevant info (batteries, chargers, lenses, LEDâŚ) and itâs kind of a let down when it has nothing todo with the Q8. But if the Miller is ok with it who am I to complain. Lifeâs to short anyway to complain bout what I see on my screen.
So whatâs up with the other 2 Q8 proto types? To who where they send and is there any tracking info?
Edit: ok Pilotdog got his jeey, must have posted simultaneously .
M4D M4X had his âNew Blogâ discussion thread locked, and all posts except for the OP excluded once a Lynch Mob mentality took over, exacerbated by xenophobia and nationalistic slurs.
A thread questioning whether BLF has become less friendly answered itâs own query by bringing out pent up hostility from a single individual, initially aimed at one of the best known, highly respected, most humble, considerate, and generous contributors at BLF.
Once again, BLFâs guiding light and angel/overseer had to step in to provide a âReality Adjustmentâ by locking the thread.
Looking back, the Meteor Sales and Discussion thread generated the âHow many Meteors do you ownâ thread, giving birth to the Meteor GAW thread, and the âWhy not a group buy for a decent SRK cloneâ concept that has become known as this âQ8â thread. Open ended discussion and free thought is fundamental for such evolution.
Creative processes stepping âoutside the boxâ are not like faucets able to be turned on and off. Left brain/right brain hemispheric interaction, logic inspired and/or stimulated by imagination along with open ended neural architecture juggling corollaries can be basic to genius thinking and problem solving. We might step into a shower, and then find an answer appearing in a flash when the logistical thought processes surrender themselves; listening to relaxing music, or meditation can do the same.
What seems like meandering, off topic foolishness can also be part of the âprocessâ TK mentions as being what interests her the most. I doubt many of the progenitors of the Q8 project need another flashlight; their reward is traveling the path, not merely arriving at the destination.
While Impatience, anxiety and frustration are forming a multi-headed monster hungry to consume another BLF thread, ThorFire could be wondering about the fugliness, eventually arriving at a conclusion such as Alexandra Wentworth was fond of offering during her days at Living ColorâŚ.
âChaaaaahh, you know vat???âŚâŚ.Unh Unh !!!
Edit:
Thanks man, clearly I had a fixation (or a physical/emotional perturbation) from the playfully erotic, and more attractive Alexandra Wentworth at that time.
It was so bad, I never even noticed young Jennifer Lopez in the cast of dancers on Living Color back then.