What have you done to your Tacoma today? 1st Gen Edition

Painted one of my half shafts, still beats buying LT CVs new.

 

Oh, give me a break Ben, there is plenly of material available on this topic. You do not need me to direct your research for you.

I suspect you know this full well and are just trying to play that high ground game you like to use with others. I hope you have fun playing with yourself.

 

I'm not getting into the pissing contest, but there is plenty of research in regards to vision, maybe not specifically headlights. Typical Google searches generally don't bring up scientific research publications. Not that I can understand them anyway.

 

I didn't search anything, but have in the past, not in reference to vehicle lighting though. Search for scientific articles/journals, I don't know any off the top of my head. There's certain ways to search for them, I can ask my wife in the morning if you're actually interested, but I'll bet you could search Google on how to search for publications.

 

Scholar.google.com

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?...+conditions&btnG=#d=gs_qabs&u=#p=h_HHwWfXP7YJ

The executive summary indicates that lower light color temperature has higher transmittance than higher color temps in foggy conditions. Whether that means you can actually see better is somewhat subjective.

 

Thanks! It was going to take someone more impartial than I.

 

You guys just need to push for these to be finished and put on the market
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ILIM/publications/PDFs/DTBRKN-ICCP12.pdf

 

Oh, and just to

Quite a few studies have been done on the effects of blue and blue-white light as they relate to eye strain and fatigue. Whether shitty blue LED dash lights have the same correlation, your guess is as good as mine.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?...ye+fatigue&qst=br#d=gs_qabs&u=#p=4EJZy1LSi90J

 

Yeah I’m guessing English is not the first language of those authors. Or maybe it was run through a crappy translation program.

 

Have you ever gotten a text from Ben? You wouldn't guess it's his first language either. We don't have a translator for that yet though, science has only come so far.

 

Pretty amazing. The first three results weren't for websites trying to sell LED headlights.

 

I wrote it up just now: https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/automatic-tailgate-lock.691814/

 

Can you guess my next mod/retrofit ?

 

I had one of those in my patrol car in the 90’s and they NEVER fail , solid switch panel made for extreme environments. Nice mod !

 

Upgraded the windshield sprayers. No more jets!

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I mean, I was going to stay out of this whole thing (even though I sort of started it) because it's clearly just "people interneting." But seriously Ben, do the world a favor and just start using dictation for your texts and TW posts .

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And in other news, I finally found a bit of time to go align all the lights at night. The hellas are hella bright now. Headlights are definitely brighter...though not as dramatic as I thought they might be...and I don't mind the white light (in a short amount of driving around town) as much as I thought I would when I saw them in the garage.

Cutoff on these particular LEDs seems actually quite good.

 

Says new tires, posts pic of truck without tires..haha

 

Your welcome.

I love those things.

 

youll love the 235's. mine ride so much better than stock. Probs will get the bug for bigger after tho. Going with 32s next here

 

Well like it or not you’re in it now cupcake. Ride the horse off the soapbox then get off the horse because you’re on our level now

Imma go back to my cave