LED brightness recommendation
02-18-2007, 03:03 PM
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LED brightness recommendation I have a set of halo fogs that I was installing but did not realize the relay wasn't wired inline so when I went to test the LED ring on one of them, it blew it out.
It looks pretty easy to solder in a new pair (I'm guessing 5mm but not sure?) but the question I have is about the brightness. I have a set of switchbacks and 194 side markers that are "hyper white" and have a blu-ish tint to them. What kind of brightness am I looking at to match that look with the fog halos?
The turn signal and side markers are already slightly different color so I'm trying to not have three different colors of white led on the front of my car
I tried getting into contact with the place I purchased the fogs from but they said the LEDs are a non-serviceable part and offered no other help.
It looks pretty easy to solder in a new pair (I'm guessing 5mm but not sure?) but the question I have is about the brightness. I have a set of switchbacks and 194 side markers that are "hyper white" and have a blu-ish tint to them. What kind of brightness am I looking at to match that look with the fog halos?
The turn signal and side markers are already slightly different color so I'm trying to not have three different colors of white led on the front of my car
I tried getting into contact with the place I purchased the fogs from but they said the LEDs are a non-serviceable part and offered no other help.
02-20-2007, 03:54 PM
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Thanks guys, I'm looking for white though because that's what's on my car now. I don't want to go too bright and have it be pure white, I need a blue tint to match what's already on the car basically.
02-20-2007, 06:17 PM
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blue is a lot brighter than the red tho, even tho the blue might be rated at a lower MCD there a lot brighter. I have a 300 mcd blue light in my cluster for my high beam lights and it all but blinds you, my green turns are 1500 and there not near as bright as the blue is.
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Originally Posted by lethal93ta
blue is a lot brighter than the red tho, even tho the blue might be rated at a lower MCD there a lot brighter. I have a 300 mcd blue light in my cluster for my high beam lights and it all but blinds you, my green turns are 1500 and there not near as bright as the blue is.
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02-23-2007, 04:53 PM
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Originally Posted by LILWS6
yes they are white little blueish tint. but i'm not shure any white led has a blueish tint to it i could be wrong.
This is a very blurry picture but you can see what I mean. The lights don't look this blue in person but you can see they definitely contrast a normal "white" bulb. Those are the original fogs before any kind of upgrades for a baseline.
The leds used in that pic are hyper white but not sure of the mcd level.
The best way I can describe the color is that it is a slightly more blue-ish than a H7 bulb.
