LED article in HOTB

[Paul Workman]

This is a "last ditch" effort to work around my ISP (Hughes.net) which is blocking my emails for some reason, and I'm not agile enough to figure out how to attache it to a PM. SO!. If anyone else would care to see the article too, feel free to read it (attached).

[Erik]

Great articles.

Having worked around energy efficiency retrofits for years, let me reiterate that there are a lot of shady bulb manufacturers out there. Always buy products from a company you have heard of. That is, a major manufacturer. I?ve seen so many bulbs fail in a lot of ways. Some just burn out annoyingly quickly, while others like to burn pretty explosively.

[Paul Workman]

Originally Posted by Erik

Great articles.

Having worked around energy efficiency retrofits for years, let me reiterate that there are a lot of shady bulb manufacturers out there. Always buy products from a company you have heard of. That is, a major manufacturer. I?ve seen so many bulbs fail in a lot of ways. Some just burn out annoyingly quickly, while others like to burn pretty explosively.

Good points on the major bulb (LED) manufactures! The headlights, in particular that I spec'ed had "bulbs" by CREE. And, they build to spec (DOT) etc. and are (far as my experience goes) very reliable is it says the lights are CREE.

[ram_g]

I just installed LED headlights this past week. After a fair amount of research, I used the "Yun method", as documented in this forum, to ground the foglamp relay - IMHO the easiest and most foolproof way. There is no need to cut any wires and no need to guess at anything - the foglamp relay is under the passenger side hush panel, furthest towards the passenger door. It is easy to remove and replace the relay - if you want to double check that you have the right one, just remove the relay and the foglamps will not work any more. The pin to be grounded is the one furthest away from the passenger door, i.e. closest to the next adjacent relay. As has been documented, a double bend in that pin allows for the circuit to be broken (and the pin appropriately grounded) while allowing the relay to be re-installed in place.

I used a replacement auto relay (they're all identical) so can easily swap back the original for a 100% return to stock.

This is the second time I owe Yun a big thanks!

[Paul Workman]

Originally Posted by ram_g

I just installed LED headlights this past week. After a fair amount of research, I used the "Yun method", as documented in this forum, to ground the foglamp relay - IMHO the easiest and most foolproof way. There is no need to cut any wires and no need to guess at anything - the foglamp relay is under the passenger side hush panel, furthest towards the passenger door. It is easy to remove and replace the relay - if you want to double check that you have the right one, just remove the relay and the foglamps will not work any more. The pin to be grounded is the one furthest away from the passenger door, i.e. closest to the next adjacent relay. As has been documented, a double bend in that pin allows for the circuit to be broken (and the pin appropriately grounded) while allowing the relay to be re-installed in place.

I used a replacement auto relay (they're all identical) so can easily swap back the original for a 100% return to stock.

This is the second time I owe Yun a big thanks!

Ah, yup! That is covered in the article (w/ the schematic)...