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.

[PorscheTom]

Sorry to hear about your findings. I've used these guys LED's on a car project I completed last year. I lit up my gauges with their blue inverted cone bulbs and they worked really well. I'm not sure if they have bulbs for our cars as I've not replaced any of my gauge lights yet, but those of you who know what we need will be able to tell if they offer the correct LED. Their site is:

www.superbrightleds.com

I have no connection with them other than I've done business with them in the past and they're great to work with. Their prices even look to be a bit lower than autolumination. If we need a specific type of bulb, you can email them describing what kind of bulb needed and they'll do their best to come up with it, or build it. I did this with the bayonet bulbs and a couple months later they were in stock.