Automotive LED Headlights

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Does anyone know if there are any LED's bright enough to replace standard halogen car headlights? I know the Luxeon Star LEDS are pretty bright, but would a cluster of them be able to keep up with a 60W Halogen? How could you calculate the relative brightness?

Thanks!

Adrian

 

[hotfoot]

afeudale,

Have you seen this?

Lumiled's press release is here:

ConceptCAR

 

[McGizmo]

Cool,

Now let's see a concept car with a random assortment of Lumiled's Luxeons!

Yeah, I know, Lumiled will bin the LED's for the auto mfg and you can pick your headlight color to match the interior trim.

" Uhhhhh......... Valet, mine is the one with camel interior and pea green headlights...."

 

[x-ray]

McGizmo, "Is this your car sir ?"

 

[Roy]

See if you can reduse the pictures to around 600 wide. It's is currently too wide to see without scrolling.

 

[hotfoot]

OK, Roy - fixed!

 

[McGizmo]

Originally posted by x-ray:
McGizmo, "Is this your car sir ?"

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">In my dreams.... Is it a Ti body?

 

[hotfoot]

I always thought McGizmo would deck out his car with a 7-cluster of Terra Destroyers for headlamps and the cyan ones as signal lamps. And furry dice with 3mm nichias where the dots should be

 

[Saaby]

No LED headlights yet...but Cadillac is releasing a unlta-luxo cruiser (V16) in about a year that suposidly has LEDs for head, tail, and stop lights. We'll see if they make it from the hand built T-Zeros? (Dang...can't remember the correct term for these, T-Zero is that fast EV, same name I wonder) anyway--we'll see if it makes it from the pre-production full production final concept vehicles (The process of launching an Auto is quite complex) to production models...

 

[dilettante]

Oh man, I know I've been here too much now. I just had an idea for an LS bar that would fit in any of the many openings in most any car's grille and function as a fog/driving light. Imagine 10 (or more) 5-watt Luxeon Stars on an aimable heatsink/mounting bar that would fit in one of the openings of your grill. I predict some cool LS based aftermarket accessories . . .

 

[Stefan]

Well, on the bright side, you wouldn't have to worry about having a burnt out headlight. If people are complaining about the colors from the super blue halogens, I'd hate to see one of these on "brights".