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landyacht318
Feb 09, 2014Explorer
This thread can easily devolve into righteousness, as if every bulb performs the same in every housing.
Anybody who spent good money on LED's retrofits, has a reason to believe that these bulbs are indeed an improvement, whether they are, or not. It depends on the reflector and how any retrofit particular LED bulbs utilizes the reflector as to how it actually performs.
How many humans do you know who revile their purchases? If they researched it and believe it to be a good choice, their brains will do everything possible to reaffirm their purchase.
There are adequate chances that the LED retrofit bulbs are indeed an actual improvement in terms of overall lumens, but are those lumens aimed where best interpreted by other drivers? How many who do, even care?
Looks brighter to me, thank you very much, purchase justified.
Once again, expenditures must be justified, and who better than to justify those expenditures than strangers on the internet.
Unfortunately, there remains this fact that incandescent housings are designed around a intense filament light source, and multitdirectional LED's firing in the best parody of 360 degrees is not going to adequately project enough light in every direction, to other drivers, as they are expecting in every housing..
My 1157's Incandescent signal lights are easy to access.
I am well aware of all the current offerings of LED 1157 retrofits.
No thanks. For me there is no benefit, unless I am trying to show others that a regular incandescent bulb is just so beneath me. Cromagnon or neanderthal. This wine smells funny. Ewwwwwwww
I'd rather insure adequate voltages make it to these original bulbs, and that the bulbs themselves are fresh, and that I have backups on hand. and know how to reach them with minimal fuss
Be honest with yourself after installing any LED bulb into your incandescent housing. You obviously want to see an improvement, and your brain has been programmed to release seratonin and endorphins on a perceived positive result, key word being "perceived"
Actual, is a whole different level
See Consumer economy, part A
Be honest with yourself, and judge the retrofit LED light from all angles, before justifying your purchase, and trying to get others online to help you justify the purchase.
I'm not saying all LED retrofit bulbs In INcandescent housings are worthless, just that there is little reason for the purchaser of LED retrofits, to not believe for a microsecond, that the light output is correct at all angles, in all situations, and that the person driving behind you will make allowances for your running lights, which looked just like brake lights, so it was not obvious when you were actually braking.
If you believe that a simple LED retrofit bulb, is without question , an undoubted improvement, then that is what you want to believe, and you might as well line up with all the menstruating women as you try to irrationally claim that it is just how you 'feel' and therefore it must be right.
Because all men are such pigs. OMG!!!!!
Anybody who spent good money on LED's retrofits, has a reason to believe that these bulbs are indeed an improvement, whether they are, or not. It depends on the reflector and how any retrofit particular LED bulbs utilizes the reflector as to how it actually performs.
How many humans do you know who revile their purchases? If they researched it and believe it to be a good choice, their brains will do everything possible to reaffirm their purchase.
There are adequate chances that the LED retrofit bulbs are indeed an actual improvement in terms of overall lumens, but are those lumens aimed where best interpreted by other drivers? How many who do, even care?
Looks brighter to me, thank you very much, purchase justified.
Once again, expenditures must be justified, and who better than to justify those expenditures than strangers on the internet.
Unfortunately, there remains this fact that incandescent housings are designed around a intense filament light source, and multitdirectional LED's firing in the best parody of 360 degrees is not going to adequately project enough light in every direction, to other drivers, as they are expecting in every housing..
My 1157's Incandescent signal lights are easy to access.
I am well aware of all the current offerings of LED 1157 retrofits.
No thanks. For me there is no benefit, unless I am trying to show others that a regular incandescent bulb is just so beneath me. Cromagnon or neanderthal. This wine smells funny. Ewwwwwwww
I'd rather insure adequate voltages make it to these original bulbs, and that the bulbs themselves are fresh, and that I have backups on hand. and know how to reach them with minimal fuss
Be honest with yourself after installing any LED bulb into your incandescent housing. You obviously want to see an improvement, and your brain has been programmed to release seratonin and endorphins on a perceived positive result, key word being "perceived"
Actual, is a whole different level
See Consumer economy, part A
Be honest with yourself, and judge the retrofit LED light from all angles, before justifying your purchase, and trying to get others online to help you justify the purchase.
I'm not saying all LED retrofit bulbs In INcandescent housings are worthless, just that there is little reason for the purchaser of LED retrofits, to not believe for a microsecond, that the light output is correct at all angles, in all situations, and that the person driving behind you will make allowances for your running lights, which looked just like brake lights, so it was not obvious when you were actually braking.
If you believe that a simple LED retrofit bulb, is without question , an undoubted improvement, then that is what you want to believe, and you might as well line up with all the menstruating women as you try to irrationally claim that it is just how you 'feel' and therefore it must be right.
Because all men are such pigs. OMG!!!!!
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