revolutiontriton wrote:Yep I agree, hell I'd spend 250 on em if it meant I could get out at night and have some fun
Least you can get out there and bank some coin for fyrlyts or similar later on!!
And I was under the impression that led don't produce the... (excuse lack of knowledge) colour wave?? That the eye needs to render colours naturally and distinctively, I believe it's red isn't it... My understanding was the reason these new halogens are "so good" is not necessarily the amount of light they produce but the quality of it making it seem a far superior light..?
Either way I'm still keen to hear the review!
You can get a set of Fyrlyts for around $550 or halogen Hellas for less. So, if maxiy decides that the LEDs aren't suitable then buys Fyrlyts it's cost him $800. I'm not sure I see the logic or sense in this, as Shippy notes, but too late now.
Your understanding is essentially correct. Here are some diagrams that show the colour spectrum for different lights, compared to daylight:
daylight-vs_incan_vs_halogen_spectrum.png
metal_halide_spectrum.png
You'll see that daylight is relatively balanced while tungsten lacks some blue. Halogen restores some blue but still remains a little short.
The second diagram shows the spectrum for metal halide which isn't quite the same as HID, but close enough. There is more blue here but a lack at the other end.
What I do is mix the two. I have HID high beams and halogen driving lights. The combination gives me something that's much closer to daylight than either type individually. Better colour rendering and a slightly softer, more comfortable light than most of the LEDs which, at 6500K, tend towards the blue end.
The photographers on the forum will understand colour rendering. It's getting your lighting right so that colours appear natural.
The "new" halogens have been around for close to 20 years. Lightforce pioneered the automotive use of a special Osram bulb and Fyrlyt took that a step further by upping the wattage, and therefore output, combined with a reflector that gave much more spread than the laser-like Lightforce lights.
If I had a truck I'd seriously consider Hella lights. Some of their Ref50 models have outstanding beam patterns. But their lack of waterproofing makes them useless for a 4WD that does even the occasional water crossing so the best currently available is the Fyrlyt which really needs some work on the optics to flatten the beam a little, reducing wastage in the treetops. With enough frontal width a set of Fyrlyts together with a set of Lightforce 240s would be pretty awesome too, especially if the 240s were HID. Never going to happen on a Triton, of course, but the Pajero, with its much bigger headlights lends itself to a dramatic rebuild that I've been working on for a while and will give me that combination.
I've digressed a bit OT here, but maxiy, since you're in Canberra, we should meet up one dark night and do a bit of a comparison of these new lights of yours. Some pictures would give the members here some useful information on how they go in the real world.
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