LED bulbs are not over priced, at least good ones. Legal sailboat bulbs are a poor example, because of the testing and certification they must go through. That's why you won't find any after-market DOT approved LED replacement bulbs. And the crazy laws is what drove all the aftermarket HID makers under in about a 10 minute time span (Catz comes to mind).
Making you own LED bulb is easy. Good LEDs are not cheap. Cheap LEDs are not good.
An LED bulb that sells for $20 now, is better than the $100 LED bulbs were just a couple years ago.
Even if the parts were free, labor costs, shipping 5 times, packaging... Then a profit for the factory, the distributors, the wholesalers, the retailers... What $20 can buy now is amazing to me, even if the LEDs aren't so great. G-
I took his advice and got one of the Home Depot 12" lights and have been burning it for about 12 hours a day to see how well it lasts. So far so good and it draws less than the HF cfl. I think it's rated at 8 watts but I show it draws less than 5. My HF CFL's have both blown already and a third replacement one has those dark spots forming on the bulbs after only a few hours.
I searched this forum, ebay and the net for the best LED's to make my own lights and gave up because I had no idea what was good and what was priced fair.Andy
Amanda[ Parent ]
Did you by any chance do an LED Intermediate class? :}Andy[ Parent ]
The Commanda and richhagen links are the best, here are two more that may be useful:
http://www.fieldlines.com/story/2007/1/28/215243/977 claude uses many pics to show how to cluster many small LED's
http://endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2951&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&hilit=l ed%E2%80%A6 48V bicycles use LED's for headlights.
"I've heard that the only thing that's certain is death and taxes,...but death doesn't get worse every time congress meets" -Will Rogers
"might be TOO bright" "so I put the regular 1156 back in"
Is this dandy LED light DOT approved?
You say it "might be TOO bright". Fine.
Is it bright enough to have DOT as an #1156?
Will DOT approve it as an #1156 in my '96 Tacoma?
"might be TOO bright" sounds like it has passed DOT as a replacement for the #1156s in my Tacoma.
Your bunk might have had #1141? #1156 tend to melt the covers.
Or is this a simple & stupid sales pitch for whatever-dot-com spam? G-
I killed that obvious pimp of a comment you are referring to. Posting this so your comment doesn't look like a lunatic rant. Funny, it usually also kills replies when a comment is removed. Not this time, however.
Tom
"Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned."--Mark Twain[ Parent ]
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