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ekam · 05-21-2009, 04:37 AM

Kirk:

This is what I mean. LED lights reflect differently compare to halogen bulbs, there's no "fix" for this but to put LEDs all around the housing like one of the ebay items you posted. It also no longer makes sense to have a LED cluster since they do make single 5W LED circuit for a while now. They do this probably because of cost and it looks cooler so people will buy it not knowing it actually produces less light output.

Until they can unify their design (ie. one that produces the same amount of non-directional light than halogen) I'm going to stay away from these "retrofit" bulbs.

05-21-2009, 04:37 AM	#14
ekam Registered User Join Date: May 2008 Location: Toronto Posts: 2,656	Kirk: This is what I mean. LED lights reflect differently compare to halogen bulbs, there's no "fix" for this but to put LEDs all around the housing like one of the ebay items you posted. It also no longer makes sense to have a LED cluster since they do make single 5W LED circuit for a while now. They do this probably because of cost and it looks cooler so people will buy it not knowing it actually produces less light output. Until they can unify their design (ie. one that produces the same amount of non-directional light than halogen) I'm going to stay away from these "retrofit" bulbs.