Halogen headlights vs hid upgrade#
Halogen headlights vs hid full#

Tungsten filaments like the ones commonly found in household incandescent light bulbs, were found to be the solution at the time.

The Retrofit Source is one retailer of high quality projectors.Īs for blinding others, both will do so in reflector housings, and aiming down does help a bit, but if the light color is too high, it can still be blinding for others.Halogen: Being able to reliably generate light with limited resources at a car’s disposal was a big problem for automotive engineers. But, a lot of aftermarket housings that come with projectors use low quality optics, and the light output will suck. If you're looking at projectors, HIDs will be superior, and you will get a true cutoff with zero scatter. 6000K is the cheapest type of LED chip to make, hence they advertise one, sell the other, and make more money. Some LED makers will say they sell a 5000K, but will really just send out 6000K, because most people don't know any better. Between 4300K and 5000K is the best temperature range for both LED and HID. The best light you will see in is, sunlight, unless you use blinding light levels. Most people think a 6000K LED is brighter and whiter.whiter, yes. The eye plays tricks on the brain, concerning light color or temperature in Kelvin.

Halogen headlights vs hid full#

Issue is almost all LED makers overstate the lumens, based on each chip that is part of the assembly being run at full power, which they are not run at. Average HID is over 3000 lumens, LEDs are lucky to hit 2000 lumens. HIDs tend to scatter more, because they produce more light. LED, and HID will both scatter light in a reflector housing, regardless of one not being as bad the other. I'm sorry if this topic annoys you but you're wrong and don't need to be spewing misinformation to people. I've heard mixed reviews on guys installing them on the later trucks w/ factory projectors but I'd imagine the cutoff must be good enough if you really want to go that route. Almost ZERO HIDs work well in reflector headlights, there are a few vehicles where that is the case but our trucks are not one of them. Be very selective about the bulbs you buy and try and view beam patterns of those bulbs in your vehicle, LEDs are much more particular than halogens because of their light dispersion being concentrated to a couple nodes.Ĥ. Some LEDs (like the Opt7's) are finally getting to the point where they actually produce a usable beam pattern comparable to stock. You're better off with a more uniform light pattern from the stock halogens.ģ. These same bulbs with the scatter create a lot of hot spots and dark spots, which makes it harder for your eyes to see the road. Many HID and LED bulbs produce a ton of scatter up high, by the time you aim them properly (following NHTSA guidelines where no light goes up towards other drivers' eyes) you've aimed them so far down they are useless.Ģ. You can just link a thread if there is one that answers my questions.Ĭlick to expand.Disagree with this statement.ġ. Do i go with a aftermarket housing that has a projector and reinforce the seal in some way? The just add HIDs to the aftermarket housing?

Halogen headlights vs hid upgrade#

Any suggestions? I really want to upgrade to a whiter light than what halogen offers. Typically aftermarket housings suck and leak after a time as I have learned by reading numerous threads. BUT, i do not have the time to retrofit a projector into my stock housings (or the know how really, but ill just use time as my excuse). I read that HIDs in stock housings can also be blinding, not have a good light cutoff, etc.

For this reason, im leaning towards HIDs more for both headlights and fog lights unless there is good reason to go with LED. LED is becoming more popular, but aftermarket wise i read that they are blinding for oncoming traffic and do not throw the light as far down the road as halogen or HID. I have a 2011 Sierra Denali 1500 and looking to upgrade my headlights to likely HID or LED. In this case, I have not found exactly what i am looking for, though, it very well may be in a past thread. Im not one to post and typically just search the forum for my answers to not beat a dead cow with the same questions over and over.