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Ebay AP2 Foglights Review
03-01-2012, 01:46 PM
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I did this 2 months a go and the lights look even better. The LED I picked are 3w each because the lights came with 1w LED. I also connect them to drivers. After reading online, driver makes them brighter and last longer. It was a little difficult to fit each LED with it's own driver.
I was also thinking that 3w might get too hot. So I cut a little aluminum plate as a heat sink. I had old AP2 led daytime light that I tested this on. After having them on for two hour I measured the temperature and it was 87F. Usually the melting point for ABS plastic is 221F. So my first test was good.
http://www.virtualvi...001540-014.html
http://commons.wikim...LED-3W-Cree.jpg
When I install this on the new lights, I'll take some pictures. These LED and driver can be bought from ebay.
I was also thinking that 3w might get too hot. So I cut a little aluminum plate as a heat sink. I had old AP2 led daytime light that I tested this on. After having them on for two hour I measured the temperature and it was 87F. Usually the melting point for ABS plastic is 221F. So my first test was good.
http://www.virtualvi...001540-014.html
http://commons.wikim...LED-3W-Cree.jpg
When I install this on the new lights, I'll take some pictures. These LED and driver can be bought from ebay.
03-02-2012, 07:14 PM
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I did this 2 months a go and the lights look even better. The LED I picked are 3w each because the lights came with 1w LED. I also connect them to drivers. After reading online, driver makes them brighter and last longer. It was a little difficult to fit each LED with it's own driver.
I was also thinking that 3w might get too hot. So I cut a little aluminum plate as a heat sink. I had old AP2 led daytime light that I tested this on. After having them on for two hour I measured the temperature and it was 87F. Usually the melting point for ABS plastic is 221F. So my first test was good.
http://www.virtualvi...001540-014.html
http://commons.wikim...LED-3W-Cree.jpg
When I install this on the new lights, I'll take some pictures. These LED and driver can be bought from ebay.
I was also thinking that 3w might get too hot. So I cut a little aluminum plate as a heat sink. I had old AP2 led daytime light that I tested this on. After having them on for two hour I measured the temperature and it was 87F. Usually the melting point for ABS plastic is 221F. So my first test was good.
http://www.virtualvi...001540-014.html
http://commons.wikim...LED-3W-Cree.jpg
When I install this on the new lights, I'll take some pictures. These LED and driver can be bought from ebay.
03-12-2012, 02:48 PM
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I did this 2 months a go and the lights look even better. The LED I picked are 3w each because the lights came with 1w LED. I also connect them to drivers. After reading online, driver makes them brighter and last longer. It was a little difficult to fit each LED with it's own driver.
I was also thinking that 3w might get too hot. So I cut a little aluminum plate as a heat sink. I had old AP2 led daytime light that I tested this on. After having them on for two hour I measured the temperature and it was 87F. Usually the melting point for ABS plastic is 221F. So my first test was good.
http://www.virtualvi...001540-014.html
http://commons.wikim...LED-3W-Cree.jpg
When I install this on the new lights, I'll take some pictures. These LED and driver can be bought from ebay.
I was also thinking that 3w might get too hot. So I cut a little aluminum plate as a heat sink. I had old AP2 led daytime light that I tested this on. After having them on for two hour I measured the temperature and it was 87F. Usually the melting point for ABS plastic is 221F. So my first test was good.
http://www.virtualvi...001540-014.html
http://commons.wikim...LED-3W-Cree.jpg
When I install this on the new lights, I'll take some pictures. These LED and driver can be bought from ebay.
I'm going to close them tonight. I'm using this glue to seal them:
I'm also going over the existing glue to make sure water or humidity doesn't go in. I'll will post pictures on the car.
03-13-2012, 06:13 PM
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If I understand correctly, each of the 9 white LED's of each original light were 1 watt? (As each original LED does not seem to be equipped with any heat sink, I'd think they're only 1/2 watt each at best, maybe less, but you've got them in front of you, I don't.) Your new setup will use 5 x 3 watt LED's in each light that emit yellow/amber only?
Thinking that filtering the white LED light for yellow/amber only would throw away at least 2/3 of the white light generated, maybe more, you've replaced between one and three watts creating white-filtered equivalent yellow/amber light with 15 watts dedicated to yellow/amber only. Effectively, you should have five to fifteen times the lumens of yellow/amber light compared to filtering the light from the white LED's.
That should be something to see!
Thinking that filtering the white LED light for yellow/amber only would throw away at least 2/3 of the white light generated, maybe more, you've replaced between one and three watts creating white-filtered equivalent yellow/amber light with 15 watts dedicated to yellow/amber only. Effectively, you should have five to fifteen times the lumens of yellow/amber light compared to filtering the light from the white LED's.
That should be something to see!
