Hi Dave,
Please stop pontificating about LED headlights with a sampling of one, and reading a bunch of BS ads.
Here's what to do as a community service: Measure the current draw at the high and low beam fuses.
Easy to do at the fuses 17, 18, 19, 20 in the 940. Just remove the ashtray and:
1 Measure Voltage drop across the top of the ATC fuses and interpolate the current with the chart I posted before
2 Get the ATC fuse current tester for short money at Harbor Freight.
I posted a review at Brickboard
3 Pull the fuse and measure current with a VOM or analog ammeter.
It's tricky with VOM probes. Make a plug out of a dead ATC fuse with jumpers to use your VOM or hook up to an analog ammeter.
I'll send you pictures, it's easy to do with a dremel tool and a solder iron.
The above methods to measure current in a fused circuit come in handy a lot of different ways. For instance you can measure current flow in fuse 11 The in tank fuel pump, and Fuse 1 the fuel system including both pumps and some other stuff. A base line reading is good to know. Suddenly some guys were blowing Fuse 1 (Fuel) that's baseline 10.5 Amps and blowing 25 Amp fuses.
One Bozo on here put a 30 amp fuse then was surprised that his fuel relay socket was melted. Unfortunately he couldn't take a hint and measure current flow at fuse 11 or Fuse 1.
It would have been nice to verify that the problem was loose arcing fuel relay socket pins. Or do fuel pumps draw more current before they crap out?
Maybe failing fuel pumps give a hint with the ammeter? eh?
Pardon me for the digression.
You are likely to find out how deceptive the LED merchants are as follows:
They say 100 watts per set
You would think that's 50 watts per lamp, eh?
Guess again, these are dual beam headlights
My guess is low beam = 25 Watts max High beam = 25 Watts max
The salesmen add that all up and claim 100 watts
Where do they say the power for low beam and high beam per LED?
I don't think Sylvania or Phillips would be so rude and crude with specs.
FYI some dual beam lamps draw more current in high than low beam.
Some LEDs draw the same current high and low.
The newest generation of LEDs have more luminous flux per watt!
Do the salesmen tell you any details found in a for real Data Sheet?
Do you have the high performance chips, more light and less current?
NO WAY They hide the important details.
Sales BS does not make it possible to make an objective review of LEDS!
It was easy to be objective with 1157 brake lights and using an ammeter & light meter to compare several samples.
I hope that MacDuff will come back with some objective review of the Auxito LEDs based on tests with an ammeter, voltmeter and light meter, instead of some BS claims by LED merchants and rave reviews by other salesmen shills on-line.
Cheers, Bill
|