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I'm wondering if anyone has ever replaced these with anything brighter?

 

They are super bright already, but for those of us who have tinted our headlights, it would be nice to have them brighten up a bit. If there's no options to do so, i'd rather keep the lights dim with the tint because of how amazing it looks! But it would be nice to go brighter without having to add a lightbar or anything.

 

Anyone familiar with any options out there? Preferrably 6500k, if they exist.

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Seeing at night is overrated anyway.

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I think I found your problem.................

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Anyone searching for lights should read this, it answers a ton of questions and provides some really great info:   https://www.diodedynamics.com/info/research/hid/hid-brightness.html

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If you have HIDs, they are Philips D5S 25W bulbs with a color temp of 4500K-4800K.

 

Color temp will do nothing for brightness and going to 6500K is going to start turning blue when seen from a distance. Immediate light output out front of your vehicle will still look bright white.

 

If you want brighter bulbs then you need to increase the wattage. DiodeDynamics has a plug and play bulb that is 35W and can be purchased in 5000K and 6000K color temp options.

 

Morimotos also offer 35W bulbs but they are a bit higher on the color temp scale coming in at 5500K and 6500K.

 

Morimoto also has a 55W kit but I believe at that point you now have to upgrade your ballast to go up to 55W. Don't quite me on that because I don't have any experience with the Morimoto 55W setup. I did upgrade to the DiodeDynamics 35W 5000K HID bulbs and so far I'm extremely pleased. Definitely more light output with the increased lumens but looks same as factory at 5000K.

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6 hours ago, xSHIFTxNASTYx said:

Morimoto also has a 55W kit but I believe at that point you now have to upgrade your ballast to go up to 55W. Don't quite me on that because I don't have any experience with the Morimoto 55W setup. I did upgrade to the DiodeDynamics 35W 5000K HID bulbs and so far I'm extremely pleased. Definitely more light output with the increased lumens but looks same as factory at 5000K.

Do you have any before and after pictures of the light beams on a wall or garage door or something? I think its the Morimoto kit I found last night that had some pretty bad long term reviews, so i'm curious. Also, how long ago did you install yours?

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Do you have any before and after pictures of the light beams on a wall or garage door or something? I think its the Morimoto kit I found last night that had some pretty bad long term reviews, so i'm curious. Also, how long ago did you install yours?
I do not but it's not hard to change the driver side bulb for the purpose of that. If I remember later, I'll swap one out and point it at my garage door when it's dark out, see if it makes a good side-by-side comparison.

I put them in last week so I haven't had them in long.

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18 hours ago, PMad said:

I'm wondering if anyone has ever replaced these with anything brighter?

 

They are super bright already, but for those of us who have tinted our headlights, it would be nice to have them brighten up a bit. If there's no options to do so, i'd rather keep the lights dim with the tint because of how amazing it looks! But it would be nice to go brighter without having to add a lightbar or anything.

 

Anyone familiar with any options out there? Preferrably 6500k, if they exist.

 

I think I found your problem.................

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48 minutes ago, newdude said:

 

I think I found your problem.................

Are you talking about the headlights being tinted? I know they are tinted, i tinted them, and i also mentioned that im fine with the brightness if there's nothing brighter but, i would of course prefer brighter. I like the tinted look, but i also like bright lights. If i have to pick one, i pick the tint and dim lights.

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That Lasfit looks pretty good! I took screenshots of the same part of the road you were on with each and compared them. I have one question that the video (due to quality) makes it really hard to tell.

 

It appears as though the stock HID lights might be better further down the road where the lasfit LED's dont do as good, but do significantly better up close. I paused the video's before you passed that factory looking thing on the left. The road looks like it was repaved and so there's a line, as soon as that disappeared under your hood, i paused it and took the screenshots. After comparing them and rewatching the video, it looked like i might be seeing more detail at a distance with stock vs lasfit. Can you confirm?

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On 7/15/2020 at 6:56 AM, xSHIFTxNASTYx said:

If you have HIDs, they are Philips D5S 25W bulbs with a color temp of 4500K-4800K.

 

Color temp will do nothing for brightness and going to 6500K is going to start turning blue when seen from a distance. Immediate light output out front of your vehicle will still look bright white.

 

If you want brighter bulbs then you need to increase the wattage. DiodeDynamics has a plug and play bulb that is 35W and can be purchased in 5000K and 6000K color temp options.

 

Morimotos also offer 35W bulbs but they are a bit higher on the color temp scale coming in at 5500K and 6500K.

 

Morimoto also has a 55W kit but I believe at that point you now have to upgrade your ballast to go up to 55W. Don't quite me on that because I don't have any experience with the Morimoto 55W setup. I did upgrade to the DiodeDynamics 35W 5000K HID bulbs and so far I'm extremely pleased. Definitely more light output with the increased lumens but looks same as factory at 5000K.

Can you post a link to the DiodeDynamics bulbs? When i look by vehicle on the site, the only headlights are replacement OEM HID's

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So i've done some looking around and it seems that most people are saying that HID's are brighter than LED's. Is this true?

 

I found that the Lasfit lights, they are LED and each bulb is 5000 lumens.

HID Concepts has an HID set thats 3600 lumens which is the brightest HID's i can find.

HID Concepts has an LED set but they dont list the lumens, and they are actually telling customers that the HID's are brighter.

 

What i've found between lastfit and HID Concepts is that when you look for HID, i cant find higher than 3600 (typically 3200 to 3400) but lumens for LED's are higher, yet everyone says HID's are brighter?

 

I'm feeling like a 3000 lumen HID vs a 3000 lumen LED and the HID would appear brighter (maybe the light carries further?), but for some reason these D5S's are being made brighter as LED's than HID's so the LED's are actually brighter than the HID's if the lumens are higher? I'm a bit confused if you couldnt tell haha

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On 7/18/2020 at 2:27 PM, PMad said:

Can you post a link to the DiodeDynamics bulbs? When i look by vehicle on the site, the only headlights are replacement OEM HID's

https://www.diodedynamics.com/replacement-oem-hid-bulbs-for-2016-2019-chevrolet-silverado-1500-pair.html

 

 

On 7/18/2020 at 3:16 PM, PMad said:

So i've done some looking around and it seems that most people are saying that HID's are brighter than LED's. Is this true?

 

I found that the Lasfit lights, they are LED and each bulb is 5000 lumens.

HID Concepts has an HID set thats 3600 lumens which is the brightest HID's i can find.

HID Concepts has an LED set but they dont list the lumens, and they are actually telling customers that the HID's are brighter.

 

What i've found between lastfit and HID Concepts is that when you look for HID, i cant find higher than 3600 (typically 3200 to 3400) but lumens for LED's are higher, yet everyone says HID's are brighter?

 

I'm feeling like a 3000 lumen HID vs a 3000 lumen LED and the HID would appear brighter (maybe the light carries further?), but for some reason these D5S's are being made brighter as LED's than HID's so the LED's are actually brighter than the HID's if the lumens are higher? I'm a bit confused if you couldnt tell haha

By brighter it may be meant in a way that HIDs will throw light further down the road than LEDs would in the same projector housing.

 

 

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