Anyone try Led H1 bulbs?

[Stampeed Valkyrie]

I have a few Aerodynic's (big shocker!!) that I am in the middle of bringing back to life and I need a number of H1 Bulbs.


So as I am browsing the internet, I come across LED H1 bulbs. Anyone have any experience using them? Obviously more LEDs = more light and the ones I was looking at were setup with several layers or rings of LEDs facing outward, to cast light in all directions.


The advantages would be bulb life, much less amperage draw, and the cost is about the same.


Unless I hear otherwise I may pick up a couple and compare them side by side.

 

[Steve0625]

I have a few Aerodynic's (big shocker!!) that I am in the middle of bringing back to life and I need a number of H1 Bulbs.
So as I am browsing the internet, I come across LED H1 bulbs. Anyone have any experience using them? Obviously more LEDs = more light and the ones I was looking at were setup with several layers or rings of LEDs facing outward, to cast light in all directions.


The advantages would be bulb life, much less amperage draw, and the cost is about the same.


Unless I hear otherwise I may pick up a couple and compare them side by side.

Check the lumen ratings. Some of the "replacement" LED's are not any where close to the same as the incandescents. US H1's should be about 1410 lumens. If your proposed LED replacements are way under that, expect a lot of degradation in performance.

 

[Jamey@NNE]

Also my experience if you can find a replacement with something like the putco plasma leds they are usually brighter than multiple 5mm

 

[MtnMan]

A standard H1 lamp is about 1,500 Lumens. The LED "equivalents" don't come anywhere close... maybe 300-400 at best. And the beam pattern will be way wrong.

 

[toon80]

I tried the Search function and couldn't find them, but there's been many threads about this idea and the answer is always: DON'T do it for emrgency vehicles.


For display purpose, you have to keep in mind that the beam spreads differently than halogen lamps. The reflector is not made to work with LEDs as stated by posts above. I don't think they will give anywhere near the POP you'd expect with halogen/incadescent lamps.

 

[Stampeed Valkyrie]

I tried the Search function and couldn't find them, but there's been many threads about this idea and the answer is always: DON'T do it for emrgency vehicles.

For display purpose, you have to keep in mind that the beam spreads differently than halogen lamps. The reflector is not made to work with LEDs as stated by posts above. I don't think they will give anywhere near the POP you'd expect with halogen/incadescent lamps.

Definitely not going back into service with this bars. so not worried about that.


I am also noting what was mentioned previously that the lumens on most LED H1s barely break 400LM. At some point I'll probably pony up the $20 for a set of them to test out.


Thanks for the feedback guys.

 

[chief1562]

Try Flebay. From what I've seen they are taller than the normal H1"s.


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