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LED headlight conversion
I’ve been reading some old post on converting to LED headlights, Do they not work with daytime running lights? the post I was reading were from 2016, I would like to replace old buckets have LED bulbs and LED bulbs for lower driving lights???
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Pulled out buckets on both sides and found blinker lens were seperate from head buckets on all the pictures on Amazon they looked like 1 piece ? and driving lights can I just replace bulb with a LED spotter??
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Yes you can. There are photos on this site which show spliting the ring and then using a wire tie to hold it around the new bulb.
I bought these Starnill LED Headlight Conversion Kit – All Bulb Sizes – 80W 7200LM COB LED – Replaces Halogen & HID Bulbs (9004) but that amazon link is now dead. Perhaps you can find the equal.
Don’t do a lot of night driving but these are pretty good if your lens are not yellowed. Mine were good so I did not buy new housings.
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Link doesn’t work
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I’ve installed the Speaker led lamps and very happy but they will not function as drl’s, even the model with the separate marker light, it’s too dim.
My coach also has driving and fog lamps in the bumper. I’m using the fog lamps as manually operated drl’s at times I feel they have benefit. Wouldn’t be too tough to make them automatic.
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Resisters? In steer compartment Un wiring old fog lights there is 2 Resisters under this side and 1 behind passenger side fog light. Looking at wiring schematics there is one resister RS14 .82- ohms for daytime running light,(low beam only) and there is two resisters R3 and R4 both 1- ohms for fog lights. Why are they using these resisters? Talked to the guys from Super Bright LED yesterday about LED lights for Headlights and new LED fog lights (running lights) and I read on a old post that our daylight running lights won’t work with LED’s in there because daylight running lights (Lo beam) have low volts coming to Low beams and shut off LED’s. Why does Prevost use the resisters?? Here are some pictures. The clean one on top is the RS14 Daylight driving lts the one at bottom dirty one is RS3 or RS4 on of the two.
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Art, did you get your new led headlights to work?? I changed over however can’t get low beams. I followed your instructions
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Have not got them yet I just had some questions about resistors, Which LED’s did you get?? I was looking at SuperBright Led’s Part # 9004-HLV5 5000 Lumens total 2500Lumens apiece
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Art, working great, my Son found the problem, wires were turned around, I put in, HidHeadlights # 9007 6000, thanks everyone for the help.
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The resistors are there to reduce voltage to the low beams for use as drl’s. If you remove the resistors, the low beam drl’s will be at full brightness and you led headlamps should function at full brightness also in drl mode. Obviously, the thinking is that you don’t need full brightness for drl’s.
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Yes that’s right but with the new technology in lights it won’t hurt a thing to run the LED’s on low beam for daytime driving lights. I read some old post about that where led’s won’t work on Daytime lights because of low volts, Bypass resistor they should work, I don’t know why the fog lights have resistors?
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Ordered by new headlight buckets yesterday from Autolightsbulbs.com and LED lights for headlights and new LED driving lights (Fog lights) it should be much better clear head light lens and LED’s, I will play around with the daytime running lights and the resistors to see if I can make them work. Next thing I want to replace all rear bulbs with the LED’s Brake lights-Running lights-blinkers it is nice Prevost gives you a complete list of all OEM bulbs to cross over to LED’s
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