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The factory halogen reflector headlights on my new F150 are atrocious. The color temp is not only appearing to be low (dinghy yellowish) as compared to previous halogen equipped vehicles we've owned, they just plain do not put out enough light on low beam. I swear high beams on this truck are about the same as low's on other vehicles. At least it has automatic high beam activation and deactivation so it does kick them on and off often all by itself.
I have always been a critic of people just slapping an LED bulb into a headlight assembly designed around halogen bulbs, and felt it creates glare. However, I've noticed companies like Diode Dynamics who have put some research and design into their LED bulb products and the bulb's light emitting LED diode is engineered to locate in the exact same spot in the headlight reflector assembly as the filament of the OEM halogen bulb, after installation. I also read where DD's LED bulbs, their L1 or whatever model, also has less of the extreme white color temp and is a little lower on the kelvin scale. This sounds like it could be an option for my F150 to try in the factory headlight assemblies that would retain focus and cutoff of the beam along OEM boundaries without creating some of the crazy scatter and glare you see so often when any old LED bulb is crammed into a headlight originally equipped with halogens.
What do you think?
I have always been a critic of people just slapping an LED bulb into a headlight assembly designed around halogen bulbs, and felt it creates glare. However, I've noticed companies like Diode Dynamics who have put some research and design into their LED bulb products and the bulb's light emitting LED diode is engineered to locate in the exact same spot in the headlight reflector assembly as the filament of the OEM halogen bulb, after installation. I also read where DD's LED bulbs, their L1 or whatever model, also has less of the extreme white color temp and is a little lower on the kelvin scale. This sounds like it could be an option for my F150 to try in the factory headlight assemblies that would retain focus and cutoff of the beam along OEM boundaries without creating some of the crazy scatter and glare you see so often when any old LED bulb is crammed into a headlight originally equipped with halogens.
What do you think?