I want to start this off by saying LEDs in projectors have several things that prevent them from being better than halogens or HIDs. With that being said I don't think that means that LEDs can't be a good option for certain projects as long as you have reasonable expectations. Why I decided in trying LEDs was partially because of seeing the success other members had with a certain led in the super tenere housing so I knew what I was getting partially, also because I knew that typically LEDs have much longer life span than the halogen and if it did fail I could get a new halogen bulb anywhere easily and not have the HID setup to deal with.
Okay with that out of the way we can get to some details and some pictures.
LEDs are Oxilam H7 mini 6500 kelvin. My opinion is 6500k is too cool but that's all I could get. Ideally 4500-5500 is best IMO. These bulbs are plug and play (sort of) and do not require modification to the housing or special caps. To get these bulbs installed correctly I did have to lightly file the tab to get it to fit flat and aimed correctly but this literally took less than a minute per side. The goal is to get the chips facing horizontally or lady to right. If you just drop the bulb in with the tabs it will be at a 45° angle.
Below you can see a single halogen projector. Notice how much light you get from the cutoff down.
Now below we have a single LED correctly aimed. Notice the scatter below the cut off and less light below the cut off. While this isn't ideal this isn't too bad and the fact the cut off itself is nice a even is most important.
Below is an example of the LED incorrectly installed. Notice the severe hot spot and uneven light pattern across the cut off.
If you look at the pattern in this shot you can get a visual in what the direction of the chip looks like and how it creates a hot spot on the top left of the lense.
This is the low beam with both LEDs installed correctly.
And this is the high beam with both LEDs correctly installed.
Night shots
All in all I believe that these are brighter and will overall work better for me. HIDs are better but these LEDs were 35 bikes and to my door in a day. I think that the cut off is too low on the ST headlight and I show to aim the bulb based on the high beam and I plan to use aux lights to give the low beam better forward projection.
Okay with that out of the way we can get to some details and some pictures.
LEDs are Oxilam H7 mini 6500 kelvin. My opinion is 6500k is too cool but that's all I could get. Ideally 4500-5500 is best IMO. These bulbs are plug and play (sort of) and do not require modification to the housing or special caps. To get these bulbs installed correctly I did have to lightly file the tab to get it to fit flat and aimed correctly but this literally took less than a minute per side. The goal is to get the chips facing horizontally or lady to right. If you just drop the bulb in with the tabs it will be at a 45° angle.
Below you can see a single halogen projector. Notice how much light you get from the cutoff down.
Now below we have a single LED correctly aimed. Notice the scatter below the cut off and less light below the cut off. While this isn't ideal this isn't too bad and the fact the cut off itself is nice a even is most important.
Below is an example of the LED incorrectly installed. Notice the severe hot spot and uneven light pattern across the cut off.
If you look at the pattern in this shot you can get a visual in what the direction of the chip looks like and how it creates a hot spot on the top left of the lense.
This is the low beam with both LEDs installed correctly.
And this is the high beam with both LEDs correctly installed.
Night shots
All in all I believe that these are brighter and will overall work better for me. HIDs are better but these LEDs were 35 bikes and to my door in a day. I think that the cut off is too low on the ST headlight and I show to aim the bulb based on the high beam and I plan to use aux lights to give the low beam better forward projection.
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