I recommend installing high quality halogen bulbs.
9005 Bulbs (High Beam)
Philips 9005 NightGuide Platinum
OSRAM NIGHT BREAKER LASER HB3/9005
SYLVANIA 9005 SilverStar Ultra
GE Lighting 9005 Nighthawk Xenon
9006 Bulbs (Low Beam)
Philips 9006 NightGuide Platinum
OSRAM NIGHT BREAKER LASER HB4/9006
SYLVANIA 9006 SilverStar Ultra
GE Lighting 9006 Nighthawk Xenon
I recommend the Philips 9006 NightGuide Platinum. They perform better than the X-treme Vision.
The code after 9006 is Philips own naming system for their different bulbs.
LED bulbs are very much different than halogen bulbs.
Why Focus Matters for LED Headlight Bulbs
I do not endorse their product but they explain why LED bulbs would never match the performance of a halogen bulb inside a housing made for halogen bulbs. People are also getting a mixed bag on quality as shown in the video. Each bulb has a different measurement and design with no set standard, unlike the halogen.
LED bulbs are a completely different technology when compared to halogen bulbs. They do both emit light, but the way that they do it are different.
An LED bulb produces light by passing the electric current through a semiconducting material—the diode—which then emits photons (light) through the principle of electroluminescence.
Halogen bulbs work just like with incandescent light bulbs, the electrical current enters the socket and travels up to the tungsten filament, heating up the filament to incandescence. The enhancement with halogen lamps is that the filament is enclosed in a quartz capsule filled with halogen gas.
If we compare the two bulbs above, we can notice how the LED tries to mimic the halogen as best as it can. However, there is one big flaw, the LEDs can only emit light in one direction, that is perpendicular to the surface that it is mounted on. There is also a large heatsink to draw away the heat that the LEDs emit. On the other hand, the halogen can emit light from all direction (omnidirectional) and does not require a heatsink.
How does this affect light output? Here is an LED bulb when it is turned on. The large heatsink and the way the LEDs work, create a massive dark area that light would never reach. This is critical in a headlight as they are designed to focus light in certain areas and at certain intensity. Just slightly altering the angle at which light comes out of the headlight can translate to a few feet of light being casted somewhere where it is useless to a driver. The same thing happens in a projector housings as well. The focal point at where the light is focused inside a projector is moved. Very similar to how our eyeballs work and how people can have nearsightedness or farsightedness.
Here is how an LED looks like in a reflector headlight.
In the end, there's nothing that you can do to try and fix the light output of the LED bulb, because physically, they are completely different. The diodes of the LED will always be out of focus when installed into a halogen housing.
Reference:
Evaluation of After-Market Light Emitting Diode Headlight Bulbs
Thinking of converting your halogen headlamps to HID or LED?
I recommend installing high quality halogen bulbs.
9005 Bulbs (High Beam)
Philips 9005 NightGuide Platinum
OSRAM NIGHT BREAKER LASER HB3/9005
SYLVANIA 9005 SilverStar Ultra
GE Lighting 9005 Nighthawk Xenon
9006 Bulbs (Low Beam)
Philips 9006 NightGuide Platinum
OSRAM NIGHT BREAKER LASER HB4/9006
SYLVANIA 9006 SilverStar Ultra
GE Lighting 9006 Nighthawk Xenon
LED headlight bulbs, especially in reflectors, are not upgrades. They are downgrades in every way. The only problem they solve is making whoever sold it to you less poor.
It was found that these 9 LED bulbs, tested in 3 different headlamps, failed the most basic photometric testing. Usually, photometric testing consists of measuring light output at a few dozen test points in the beam pattern. These scientists only tested 5 points, and all 27 combinations of LED bulb+halogen headlamp failed. Most produced excessive glare, and even those that did not produce excessive glare actually produced less distance vision light. In other words, chances are LED bulbs both create glare for others and don't light up the road as well as halogen bulbs.
https://www.sae.org/publications/technical-papers/content/2019-01-0850/
Several different LED replacement bulb kits, each designed to replace a conventional 55-W H11 halogen bulb, were purchased and tested in three different low-beam headlight units. [...]These findings suggest that using after-market LEDs to replace halogen bulbs can compromise headlighting performance.
You might think LED bulbs light up the road just fine and dandy after a test drive, but that's because of the excessive foreground light produced by unfocused LED chips. Excessive foreground light--defined in the literature as 10 to 26 feet in front of the vehicle--is highly correlated with positive headlamp impressions. However, when travelling 40 MPH (60 feet/second), is seeing what's 25 feet ahead of you relevant, or is seeing what's 150 feet ahead more relevant?
But let's not go around pretending that we've "upgraded" our lamps; let's not encourage such behavior. LED bulbs+ halogen headlamp = dangerous.
I recommend installing high quality halogen bulbs.
9005 Bulbs (High Beam)
Philips 9005 NightGuide Platinum
OSRAM NIGHT BREAKER LASER HB3/9005
SYLVANIA 9005 SilverStar Ultra
GE Lighting 9005 Nighthawk Xenon
9006 Bulbs (Low Beam)
Philips 9006 NightGuide Platinum
OSRAM NIGHT BREAKER LASER HB4/9006
SYLVANIA 9006 SilverStar Ultra
GE Lighting 9006 Nighthawk Xenon
LED bulbs are very much different than halogen bulbs.
Why Focus Matters for LED Headlight Bulbs
I do not endorse their product but they explain why LED bulbs would never match the performance of a halogen bulb inside a housing made for halogen bulbs. People are also getting a mixed bag on quality as shown in the video. Each bulb has a different measurement and design with no set standard, unlike the halogen.
LED bulbs are a completely different technology when compared to halogen bulbs. They do both emit light, but the way that they do it are different.
An LED bulb produces light by passing the electric current through a semiconducting material—the diode—which then emits photons (light) through the principle of electroluminescence.
Halogen bulbs work just like with incandescent light bulbs, the electrical current enters the socket and travels up to the tungsten filament, heating up the filament to incandescence. The enhancement with halogen lamps is that the filament is enclosed in a quartz capsule filled with halogen gas.
If we compare the two bulbs above, we can notice how the LED tries to mimic the halogen as best as it can. However, there is one big flaw, the LEDs can only emit light in one direction, that is perpendicular to the surface that it is mounted on. There is also a large heatsink to draw away the heat that the LEDs emit. On the other hand, the halogen can emit light from all direction (omnidirectional) and does not require a heatsink.
How does this affect light output? Here is an LED bulb when it is turned on. The large heatsink and the way the LEDs work, create a massive dark area that light would never reach. This is critical in a headlight as they are designed to focus light in certain areas and at certain intensity. Just slightly altering the angle at which light comes out of the headlight can translate to a few feet of light being casted somewhere where it is useless to a driver. The same thing happens in a projector housings as well. The focal point at where the light is focused inside a projector is moved. Very similar to how our eyeballs work and how people can have nearsightedness or farsightedness.
Here is how an LED looks like in a reflector headlight.
In the end, there's nothing that you can do to try and fix the light output of the LED bulb, because physically, they are completely different. The diodes of the LED will always be out of focus when installed into a halogen housing.
Reference:
Evaluation of After-Market Light Emitting Diode Headlight Bulbs
Thinking of converting your halogen headlamps to HID or LED?
I recommend installing high quality halogen bulbs.
9005 Bulbs (High Beam)
Philips 9005 NightGuide Platinum
OSRAM NIGHT BREAKER LASER HB3/9005
SYLVANIA 9005 SilverStar Ultra
GE Lighting 9005 Nighthawk Xenon
9006 Bulbs (Low Beam)
Philips 9006 NightGuide Platinum
OSRAM NIGHT BREAKER LASER HB4/9006
SYLVANIA 9006 SilverStar Ultra
GE Lighting 9006 Nighthawk Xenon
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