Crapity Crap!, LED lights offer NO "improvement" Options

[Qarl]

I received the LED prototypes in today. Red, Blue, and Superbright white. The superbright white is really just a wavelength of blue.

I can honestly say they are not any brighter than the incandescent bulbs. The good news is that the inverted lense actually disperses the light about the same as the incandescent bulb, thus doing away with problem that the LED lights are directional in natuure.

I think that the size of the LED is the issue. I big LED will most definitely be brighter, but you run into size problems with the lamp base.

It has only three advantages I can think of.

1. Last longer
2. Color choices
3. Will not fade and yellow over time.

So... I don't think it is really worth going through the expense of importing some in from overseas.

Sorry to get everyone's hopes up. I guess that's part of the experimentation process.

I am still waiting to hear back about the halogen fog bulbs though.

[Qarl]

If anybody wants some from a source here in the U.S., here you go.

http://autolumination.com/otherleds.htm

Look for the Ba7s bulbs.

Unfortunately this guy is a :dhead:

I contacted him at the end of least year about getting some prototypes made for me for a Porsche instrument cluster. Told him I could sell lots and lots of them. He gave me good pricing for these in bulk and said 30 days for the prototypes.

I waited and waited for 90 days and nothing. Finally, he says... "Sorry, gonna have to give you your money back".

A month later, he has the bulbs listed on his site as "Porsche Instrument Bulbs". Hmmm I wonder where he got the idea!

So last week I ordered some and asked him about pricing again... now they are triple the original cost. Bastard!

I know, my fault. I gave him too much info.