Compare to newer cars that have LED center brake lights, 1st gen.TSX's look cheap and dim. Not worrying about the looks, for the safety purpose alone, I want to replace the bulb that has a little bit higher wattage to emit more light when braking. Anybody know if such bulbs are available?
Thanks in advance.

 

Why not build an array of LED's that fits in the brake light housing? Or convert to 3GTL high mount LED brake light?

 

LEDs are the wrong emitter type for incand assemblies. It will actually be less safe no matter how high of quality or brightness the LEDs are. A good LED in a good incand assembly = a bad lamp.

I would recommend leaving safety lamps stock for the reason that they were designed to be exactly the brightness they already are.

If you want to anyway, I would look into a slightly higher wattage incand bulb without blue tint. The only problem with brighter incand bulbs is you might have heat problems, and the bulb life-time could be reduced.

Good luck with your modding.

 

[citation needed]

Meeting a requirement at the minimum cost seems to have been the big design factor here...

 

[Common sense and logic needed]

The reflectors used in the assembly are not intended to reflect the light for the the led lens. LEDs are bright for a specific angle and have minimal or no light from others (including the parts that typically face the reflector).

 

hi feuss

 

The same reason that HID bulbs cannot be safely used in incand assemblies applies. Let me look for an article on LEDs in incand assemblies, but for now you can look into why HIDs mean the same thing. I can't find an LED article off hand.

http://www.danielsternlighting.com/t...nversions.html

In the context of the safety performance of incand lamp assemblies, HIDs might as well be LEDs because they're both different emitter-types than incand bulbs. So although HID and LED are different from each other, they are also different from incand bulbs. So the only difference between HID and LED (in this context of the point I'm making) is that they will both be differently unsafe.

But let me also look for an article involving LEDs.