What type of light would I need to replace my parking lights with from halogen to LED? I just installed HID headlights and now it looks wierd with the halogen parking lights when theyre on at the same time. I pulled both parking lights out and they are 12V 5W bulbs.
high quality varies very much with halogen lamps, between the final is made via BLV in Germany and has a 3500 hr score, against the conventional one thousand-2000 hours. **do no longer ** use dichroic (additionally familiar as cool beam) lamps as reported till your luminaire is designed for them, they permit lots greater warmth out of the rear and could reason overheating or a hearth interior the incorrect luminaire sort. The dimmer is a sturdy suggestion, basically verify that it quite is a 'tender start up' circuit.
led lights are going to look strange also... you need 12v/5W component type LED setups. that simple. what the model/cat numbers are going to be.. you gotta look at the company or ask the distributor/seller.
I would keep your halogen lights.
I considered carriing LEDs once on my website and learned a bit about them before declining to stock them. The problem is that there are no LEDs that put out as much light as the halogen bulbs. The only way to get around that fact is to match the color of the housing with the color of the LED. for instance say a white halogen in a red housing makes red light for your tail lights, but only 1/3 of the light made by the bulb goes through the red lense. If you replace it with a red led bulb that is only 1/3 the light output of the halogen, the light output outside the lense is the same because all of the red light from the led bulb will pass through the lense. For your parking lights, get amber leds, or for brake/tail lights use red leds. The white leds wont put out enough light.
