Holy Crap! These might be too bright lol

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Old 09-24-2010, 09:30 PM
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Holy Crap! These might be too bright lol

I replaced the last 4 Incandescent bulbs in my car the dome lights! Pretty much the opposite of everyone else these are the first bulbs to be swapped out. They are wayy too bright but luckily I will be installing a dimmer for just the domes when I take on my floor lighting project. I used CREE 7090 XR-E P4 (link below) if anyone is interested! They need a driver too I can help you with that if your interested. No eBay junk or prepaid overdriven LEDs from JunkLEDs.com! I love Cree most all of my LEDs are Cree brand excellent quality.


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Old 09-24-2010, 09:38 PM
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Thats not too bad, but maybe its the pic. LOL just imagine installing HID in those!!!
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Originally Posted by LTxArucAx60
Thats not too bad, but maybe its the pic. LOL just imagine installing HID in those!!!
HID in reverse lights? I would never do that too much warm up time with HIDs If I needed brighter reverse lights I would use one of these
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Holy hell... and I thought a 48 LED board was bright...
Your LED is insane! I WANTS

Edit: after looking at some detailed pics of these CREE LEDs... it looks like it has a pseud-projector-like-lens in front of the LED. Interesting.

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i think it looks great
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Looking good Roger! I'll drop by sometime and see who's interior is brighter at night
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i think they look really good
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LED>everything else
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looks good roger...
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More info on the drivers that you used please and did you use a heatsink for these cause I read the reviews and everyone is saying that they get a little warm.
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Originally Posted by luder917
More info on the drivers that you used please and did you use a heatsink for these cause I read the reviews and everyone is saying that they get a little warm.
Yes you need heatsinks for all high power leds or they will go into thermal runaway!! Look at the pictures above I show the rear lights mounted to the heatsinks. If these were designed for constant use I would have used even more aluminum.

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