LED H11 Lamps

Hi everyone,

Me again!
My low and high beam lights on the passenger side went out. I am taking the opportunity to swap out the halogens and pop in some LEDs!
I went to the Canadian Tire and they sold me the Ignite H11.
They brought me back 2 boxes with a pair of lights in each.

I asked if there were separate bulbs for low and high and they told me the same bulb can be used for both high and low beams.

IS THIS TRUE?

I can't seem to find any statement anywhere that confirms this

As always,

Thank you for your time.

 

Read about how LEDs in a halogen assembly do not evenly display to oncoming drivers, post 1 is informative: https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...ctor-headlights.589465/page-335#post-29909125

If you want to cause discomfort for oncoming drivers, keep doing what you are doing. Else just get some Phillips H9 halogen for the low beams.

 

I have not put them in yet. I have looked through that thread and I didn't see anything that said the same bulb can be used in both the high beam slot and low beam slot.
That doesn't feel right though.

 

LED throws light in 3 directions, mostly. Maybe some to the other sides of the "rectangle". Halogen bulbs throw light in all directions and halogen assemblies are designed to reflect from ALL directions. The driver sees some greater light but no guarantee it throws more light farther. But oncoming drivers see odd patterns and ultra-bright slivers too often.

Philips H9, or I use NAPA BP1265/H9-N (remove the green insert, easy).

 

Yes using led it’s the same bulb.
I have Auxito and love them in my projector housing.
A bunch of guys at work also use the Auxito leds and love them.
I’ve ran them in a previous truck and they last along time.
LEDs need to be timed seems the better ones come set up.
The Auxito lights were.

 

LEDs will light up the foreground, but not further back. Your brain thinks it see more, and you do, right in front of the car, but not ahead on the road, where it counts.

This is a guy who designs automotive lights for living:
3rd Gen HID vs LED vs Halogen H11 projector headlights

Read it before putting LED bulbs into a housing designed for halogen bulbs.

 

lots of this!

 

You can't time "time" plug in LED bulbs. Diodes are in the wrong place for a halogen or projector housing and its optical center (LED substrate+LEDs are much thicker than halogen spiral) and emit light in the wrong direction (LEDs are directional, halogen are omni-directional). Always have, always will be.

 

At least 1 per week ... "Someone tolded me that they be muchly brighterly and perfectly!"

 

Thanks, everyone!

 

I blame it on the 4cyl fart can exhaust Honda JDM modding bros. Same mentality.

 

It’s a mess on the Facebook groups. At least once a day somebody asks about bulbs and you have all the people claiming my Amazon led bulbs are awesome! So much brighter! My friends love them too! Meanwhile it’s the shittiest LED bulb ever produced that even china sold them at a discount

 

There’s only one LED bulb that’s even remotely worth it and it’s the Auxito with the .079” board (they make different types, the ones I just mentioned are the best). Virtually no shadows and they work well in a projector housing.
I’ve tried others, Sylvania, Morimoto, GT, they all suck.

 

1. It is still a bi-directional light source, vs omni-directional. Projector hosing gets less than 1/2 of light.
2 .079" board thickness is 2mm. Halogen spiral is 1.42 mm. Add in the thickness of diodes themselves, and you are looking at 3.5mm or so vs. 1.42mm. LED thickness is 2.5x thicker than halogen light, ie it still would not be in the optical center of the lense.

 

.079 is the thickness of the board and SMD combined and I know they are bi directional Sherlock.
I never said they were great, I said they’re better than most I have tested.

 

Then say what you mean, Holms, do not ASSume that others can read your mind. Board means board, not assembly.

 

I did, you were the one who ASSumed.

 

Have you driven INTO those bi-directional/not-focused LEDs in SUV, Civic, Corolla, etc? That is the problem. Also the length of the light projected down the road is more relevant than the backwash/glare it seems looking through the windshield.

crashnburn80 did measure "downstream" and "glare" and "even/uneven illumination".

 

Yes, I’ve read all his stuff. Very informative.
I think the whiter light gives people the illusion that they can see better…..but they are very distracting to oncoming traffic.