Reversing lights upgrade - LED?

[ceb]

Now the nights are drawing in I'm thinking about seeing if I can upgrade the standard 21w reversing lights to a higher output LED light as I have to reverse in to a gloomy driveway and any help will do.

Has anyone done this, if so was it worth it?, any CANBUS issues?

ceb

[pab]

quite a few members have upgraded to LED reversing lights..calibrax is the man with the info.
try a search,it could bring up a bit more information.

[Jakg]

*watching with interest*

[calibrax]

quite a few members have upgraded to LED reversing lights..calibrax is the man with the info.
try a search,it could bring up a bit more information.
Not me guv! Tony Fry has the LED reversing lights info. I only do LEDs on the IPKs, climate control and switches :)

[pab]

Not me guv! Tony Fry has the LED reversing lights info. I only do LEDs on the IPKs, climate control and switches :)sorry wrong member :o

have a look at this thread.

http://www.the75andztclub.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=62090&highlight=led+reversing+lights

[mantianak]

And also this (http://www.the75andztclub.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=68051&highlight=brake+led)thread :)

[T-Cut]

To get the same useful light output from a LED system, it's gonna need rather a large number of SMDs. Just because an LED unit fits a bulb socket doesn't mean you'll get the same light emission. Something like these may be bright enough.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y191/waveguide/H7_LED_bulb.jpg

These are (supposedly) for headlamps, but I'm sure they'd be quite inadequate.

TC

[pab]

To get the same useful light output from a LED system, it's gonna need rather a large number of SMDs. Just because an LED unit fits a bulb socket doesn't mean you'll get the same light emission. Something like these may be bright enough.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y191/waveguide/H7_LED_bulb.jpg

These are (supposedly) for headlamps, but I'm sure they'd be quite inadequate.

TCbig clumsy looking thing,how would that get light onto the road..would have to be a big reflector...chinese i presume.

[ceb]

To get the same useful light output from a LED system, it's gonna need rather a large number of SMDs. Just because an LED unit fits a bulb socket doesn't mean you'll get the same light emission. Something like these may be bright enough.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y191/waveguide/H7_LED_bulb.jpg

These are (supposedly) for headlamps, but I'm sure they'd be quite inadequate.

TC

Blimey - I was thinking of lighting the reversing area not irradiating the garden:D

[mantianak]

To get the same useful light output from a LED system, it's gonna need rather a large number of SMDs. Just because an LED unit fits a bulb socket doesn't mean you'll get the same light emission. Something like these may be bright enough.

TC

Does depend on what your using it for, I wouldn't attempt a headlamp led bulb myself. The quality and type of the led is a big factor on the output of light, not just the quantity. Some led's emit over 3 times the amount than others.

[black olive]

lateral thinking, how about a suitably placed pir floodlight on the side of the house

[ceb]

Would love to but we are renting, and it's taken the landlord (mien fuhrer) six months to give us a working cooker so you can imagine how a conversation about a floodlight might go!!