Hey everybody this is Brannen from sparks smith C and BC I wanted to take just a quick minute to demonstrate because I have this Dodge Ram in here that has some uh projectors projector headlights in it with d2s bulbs I wanted to demonstrate the difference between an HID d2s bulb and our LED d2s bulb they're quite comfortable you might be surprised okay first up I'm just going to power them both on at the same time and see if you can initially tell which one is the LED and which one is the hi if you'll notice and the hid I've been running it for a few minutes so it was already kind of warmed up if you know HIDs they take a little while to warm up but the upper one is my finger the upper one is the LED and the lower one is the hid so definitely a color difference I will say that I'm going to put my Lux meter on it here in a minute and try them one at a time so there's hid and that's LED just two very different kinds of light I suspect that
the hid in fact you can kind of tell it just from looking here the hid has more of a hot spot that brighter point right there that's what's going to push more light further down the road however you also have the advantage on LED of that full brightness instantly and um you know a much simpler installation there okay yeah see I rotated the LED bulb so you can rotate it and get a much different output now it's worth noting that this particular bulb does work off of an HID Ballast so we have options where it'll just work off of 12 volts so you don't even have to run your Xenon ballast anymore you can just run an HID bulb so I think the next step is let's unplug one of these all right we've got hid I'm going to get my Lux meter and take a couple of readings okay I've got my Lux meter here and it's worth noting these are just relative measurements one to the other because we've got the overhead lights on and stuff it's not a true
measure of the actual output but it's going to be one relative to the other so if we look right here in the center what should be the brightest point on it I'm getting just over a thousand LS and again these numbers are sort of meaningless by themselves but when you start comparing them against each other that's what tells you the difference so we're looking at about a th right there at the brightest point and then you get a few feet out you're already right about here 500 so I'm already at half the intensity and on this side it actually stays quite intense any further right on this cut off line really staying in the 700s now we're starting to drop down to 500s quite a quite a way leg on this side before we hit half of the highest reading and interestingly this can only make it so that here before we're at half of the intensity that you're getting right there um so next we will try it with the LED you P get that inst brightness
this connects the hid so it's not having any effect on the reading and again the LED can rotated um I will admit straight away that one disadvantage of the LED is you see this shadow that is because of the chip Arrangement that's just a necessary evil of the way LED technology is right now so if we rotate it kind of to the side that might give us our best output like this will give us a brighter hot spot but this will give you better foreground and so it's kind of a it's it's going to be a trade-off you lose width but you get more foreground this way at the brightest point we are at 12200 so slightly brighter than the Xenon bulb and coming out here we don't drop to half about 500 here which is about what we saw on the other one now going this way we're going to lose intensity a lot quicker because I rotated that bulb to account for for instead of width I can only get about the same distance away here before I'm half of the brightness
get at the very you get lot of good for now if I was to rotate the B 90° see that the blade part is vertical you'll see you get a lot more width out of it this is just one of those things about LEDs still roughly the same about 1200 here in the middle but now we're going all the way here we reach right here 600 about there so we're a little further out before at the way point and then we'll try it this way 600 is right about there 500 is going to be there is so you get that much width out of it but you do get this kind of dark spot right in the middle so if you're looking for more light down the road the sides you'd have ADD orientation or if you wanted more light in the foreground kind of right in front of the car you drive condition stuff like that more often you'd want to rotate it the other way to get more of the foreground so just a quick comparison of LED versus HIV um I always like doing these little comparisons to kind of see what's
what in the world of lighting you can see I just plugged in the hid again hid is still a very good bulb um they do have that warm-up time so if you like the instant on brightness of LEDs then we have a D series op option for all of your D series xenom bulbs so D1 D2 D3 D4 even D5 which was in some of the newer Chevy and Ford trucks there's only a few options for D5 um LED bolts out there show you what I mean um if you want a D5 hid so the D5 actually incorporates the ballast into the back of the bulb and it's a very unique design only used for a few platforms but we have an LED version of it that will work with your truck or your car or whatever it is that uses this D5 4 3 2 or one we've got them at Sparks smith.com