AlphaRex LUXX series tail lights????

Are the fans noisy?

 

It's difficult and nearly impossible to compare lighting with pictures and video. More lumens doesn't always equal better lighting. More lumens only means more lumens

It's similar to having more horsepower but no effective means to turn that into traction.

 

LEDs are not bad lights, the problem is the shape of the LEDs and how they perform poorly in a halogen housing.

Here's the BLUF from Crash's thread that @musicisevil linked above:

"If you compare all the light source bulbs, the halogens, LEDs and HIDs in the picture at the beginning of the thread, there is one source that easily stands out as very different than the others. The LED. Automotive manufactures will utilize specialized light assemblies precision designed from the beginning for a LED to get excellent projection performance with their LED light source. Since the H11 housing is not an LED light assembly and is designed to collect and projection an omni-directional halogen light source from the center of the assembly, the LED must try to conform to mimic a halogen. While LEDs are excellent performing light sources with many advantages, the one thing they do not do well is mimic an omni-directional halogen headlight bulb. LEDs are a directional light source and the halogen assembly is designed for a uniform omni-directional light source. You can point an LED, but you cannot point a light bulb.

Directionallized light causes a non-uniform light pattern, giving unintended dark and hot spots in the pattern. While many bidirectional LEDs now put their chips in the correct X and Y position to attempt mimicking a filament, they are far wider than a halogen filament making the light source offset from center. As minuet changes in shrinking a halogen filament have significant positive performance effects, considerably growing the light source and offsetting it from center has the opposite effect. Focus and hot spot is greatly reduced or lost all together. This loss of focus causes significant glare and scatter in other assemblies, but due to the projectors internal light shield, glare is controlled. Focus and hot spot is now lost meaning the result is loss of distance projection or what people often refer to as lack of throw. Distance projection is the primary purpose of the headlight. This loss of ability to project distance shifts the light pattern toward the vehicle and causes a large output increase immediately in front of the vehicle. This makes for great looking photos and even initial impression in the vehicle, before realizing the distance projection has been lost. To further compound the problem, high immediate foreground light causes pupils to constrict and limit the ability to see distance in the dark. This is a fundamental geometry and physics problem with using an LED in a halogen assembly. Some may suggest that LEDs need to be adjusted up to fix the distance projection, but that in no way addresses the focus projection issue, instead just adds dangerous glare to oncoming drivers. LEDs and halogens could not be more fundamentally different. Even though the LED light source is brighter, the combination of non-uniform light pattern with loss of focus and distance projection running in an incompatible housing results in poor lighting performance. But this is not the fault of the LED, it is the result of using an LED in headlight assembly designed for a halogen light source."

 

Found them: these are the one that I got in my truck that I’m very happy with

$70 FAHREN 9005/HB3 lights bulbs，120W 32000 Lumens Bright Lighting Bulb, 6500K Cool White Fog Lights IP68 Waterproof,Quick Installation, Pack of 2

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D7PY88JB

 

Lol I have a bola exhaust. That should say everything. Actually, now that I think about it, I install these before I got my exhaust system. And no, I did not hear them except maybe when I was outside.

 

But they don’t fit out of the box I had to use the stock rubber gasket from the halogen bulbs to get them to fit. The ones that came with these LEDs were too thick and it’s a very very tight fit so you do not have to worry about any Water getting in there for sure especially the passenger side. I had to use a pair of channel locks to turn it in place mainly because there’s not much room to work on that side even when you remove the window washing tub.

 

Yes, I plan to read this entire thread when I get home. Just getting off work I’m gonna go home crack open a beer And flush my brake system. Then I’m gonna crack open another beer and read the article!

 

No issues and have been in for 1.5 years now