Outback, have you tried this on the road?
Does it light up the area well?
Yes, and yes.
My experience with LED's is they make a heck of a bright light, but don't light up an area. I
(n my case I'm talking about LED flashlights. Yea, I know we're not comparing apples and apples)..
But the LED flashlights are so bright they blind you if shined in your face, but they don't make much of a beam..
You need to spend bigger $$ on your LED flashlights. I'm a bit of a flashlight junkie and have a small one that throws something like 600 lumens. It has a big lens on the front that can focus the beam so sharply that you can actually see the circuit of the LED array on a wall well over 100 feet away. (I know I've done it further, but I've never really measured.) It makes this neat square pattern with sharply defined edges. I really try to avoid shining it into my own or other peoples' eyes. I know this means nothing for an LED headlight conversion, as there is no comparison, but LEDs
can be focused easily. I also have a good LED conversion in a 3 D-cell Mag-lite. It is several years old, and it focuses as well as the original bulb did.
So, here I am...looking at my still in the package PIAA Super Plasma GT-X 60/55w=135/125W bulb...and, reading Outback's post about that Genssi LED conversion...decisions...decisions...
I know that PIAA makes some good stuff, but I'm always suspicious of claims like that. I just can't understand how you'd get those supposed numbers out of an incandescent bulb. (Wattage is a terrible way of rating light output, anyway.) The GENSSI setup only uses something like 40W on high beam. So if you're looking for a bit of power saving, it might be the way to go. And there really is no way to beat the "coolness factor".
I actually ordered the rest of the bulbs and a new flasher that I need to make my C10 entirely LED.
Damn, just realized I forgot the license plate light! How embarrassing that would have been!
Anyone know the bulb size?