Hey guys, I recently upgraded mine, and wanted to come by htere to give you an idea and show some differences in what is out there, in terms of color and light output.

NOTE: The exposure on the camera was reduced to eliminate some of the highlights being blown-out, and you can see the color difference and comparison of intensity when side by side, so imagine the output compared to yours, evenly and completely illuminating the plate.

I set the camera to incandescent white balance, or your basic light bulb in the house, as this is what most closely matches the color that I perceived the plates/bulbs to be.

This are the stock halogen bulbs



Then I inserted one LED, presumably at the 8000k color tempurature.

Purchased from eatoworks.com

New LED on the right, obviously.



Ok, now this is the look that I thought I wanted, but it was too blue for my taste.

So, I found this one from superbrightleds.com $4.95 ea, $5.00 shipping

Now, the difference between this one, and the previous bulb, is the color wavelength that is dominant. See this spec page
for all the different types of 194 wedges that are supplied by superbrightleds.com.

Left one 4500K wedge, right is 8000k wedge



As you can tell, the color is more white (actually purplish) which results in an increased brightness, and to be honest, matches more closely the new Lexus models running around our streets with LEDs on their plates. I love them now!

Both bulbs in now.




PS, I don't really mindthe license plate being shown on here. Hey, i'm promoting my alma mater, and it's not like the plate number will help you find me. I am listed in the phone book after all.

 

TEXAS TECH AND KAPPA SIG OMG? lol j/k im partial to A&M for the potential father-in-law, n I know some good KS guys, im just not a frat guy myself, had to give you a hard time for it tho! I also was a past GC owner (will have another one again soon!) .....anyways the lights look great, and I like the comparison shots, I believe mine are prob in between the two you tested, up close slightly blue but get a good 3 feet back and they look nice and white, the IS is what inspired me too. although my cam phone is 2MP it isnt very good at night Maybe these will show up better:

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[IMG] http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/d...233541_0_0.jpg [/IMG]

[IMG] http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/d...258245_0_1.jpg [/IMG]

 

Lights looks Nice

and thnx for sharing with us.

 

AHHHH! for some reason my picture posting skills have gone to sh*t lately, even after reading the sticky! [&o]

 

you sure you're hitting the Image icon, not the link icon instead. Make sure when you paste your image link into the box, that the [img] tags are not included. geesh, my neice can call you and walk you thru it if you like. lol j/k ya.

 

lol i never used to have trouble, and im 21 for gosh sakes, looks like im getting old realllll fast!

 

That makes it even worse. You were pretty brought up using computers, so that should give have you an advantageover some of the older folks around here.

 

just got my LED bulbs today. I will post pics tommorrow on the color change

 

Which ones did you get super_jag?

 

I bought some from Hong Kong, took about 10 days to get here a I also got some dome ledsI will post those pics in the interior section. I plan on installing them tonight or tommorrow.

 

Great pics and nice write up H20, lookin really sweet.............I so wanna do that to mine now, have done for a while. Gotta get them ordered up.


Jim

 

Here is my pics as promised, came out dark I don't know why, I will take some later.....

After

 

Maybe it came out darkbecause the car is dirty ....don't know

 

Its just the camera trying to expose the image correctly, and you can try to adjust the exposure compensation to the plus(+) side by 1-2 clicks. It is dirty though. The camera looks like it was on Auto White Balance as well, based on the two pictures, and in the first, it looks more accurate for the halogen vs LED bulb, but the second one, it corrected it even further, that's why it looks more white than blue... I assume the blue in the 1st side by side pic is closer to the actual appearance of the lights?

Take a pic farther away from the rear of the car, so you can get the tailights in it as well, turn up the exposure compensation, set the white balance to the picture of a light bulb (incandescent) and maybe even set it on a box or something so you don't have any camera shake. It is kindof trial and error to get the appearance of the light output to match what you see and what the camera captures.

Happy with the results?

 

I'll try that ... happy a lil, I actually wanted a whiter light than that it looks more blue... I also change the interior bulbs but haven't had a change to post the pics.

 

Well, if it bugs ya later on, there are those bulbs that I installed that are more whiteish with a bit of purple to it. After all of the money that I have spent trying bulb types in my turn signals and brake lamps, another $15 is a drop in the well! oh my, I spent alot.

As long as you are happy, that's what counts...they may grow on you.

 

Trial and error tends to be the only thing that works!

 

with using these conversions do you have to wire in a resistor or are they prewired fo easy plug and play?

 

license plate bulbs are not monitored so a swap out will not require a resistor.

 

h20boy
I know you did all your tailights to, which bulbs did you end up using?