Over analyzed but anyway:
Finally got free cash for the 80, started with the best bang for buck, LED’s to fix my “dead battery when doors left open” problem. Replacing the weak battery with 2 good ones is next. Ordered Georges LED’s ( good guy ) for the Dome and map but he no longer offers door modules.
For the doors went to www.superbrightleds.com and got "WLED-W4" x4 total $15.36 w/shipping, these are replacements for the 194’s in our doors, I understand “WLED-W6” would also fit and would be brighter but consume more power
Put the doors in tonight, have mixed feelings about them, they are plenty bright but also very directional, most of the light comes out in a tight cone in one way this is nice as it does not blind you when stepping out and the beam will be very visible to other drivers to show an open door from a great distance but they also do not put much light on the ground, much less than the original 360* output incandescent bulbs, I would also prefer a more balanced white light, the Superbright LED’s are a little on the blue side, but not as bad the yellow of the stock bulbs
These pictures have been lightened to about what it looks like to my eye (maybe a little brighter) as they were to dark to show anything before
Going to run them for now for the reduced power draw but later I will build something better optically and relocate these for foot well lighting or something else
Rough electrical math: (somebody double check it in case I missed something)
Stock incandescent bulbs
Doors 3W .25A x 4 = 1A
Domes 10W .83A x 2 = 1.6A
Total 32W 2.66A
That would fully drain an optima yellow top (D34 55AH) in about 20 hours, it would be to weak to start the engine sometime before that, my battery cannot start my 80 after about 8 hours with the door open
LED’s
Doors .24W .02A x 4 = .08A
Domes 1.44W .12A x 2 = .24A
Total 3.84W .32A
This would drain the same battery in 171 hours or just over a week
The other advantage George pointed out was much less heat output witch would prevent the lenses from becoming overheated and discolored
Finally got free cash for the 80, started with the best bang for buck, LED’s to fix my “dead battery when doors left open” problem. Replacing the weak battery with 2 good ones is next. Ordered Georges LED’s ( good guy ) for the Dome and map but he no longer offers door modules.
For the doors went to www.superbrightleds.com and got "WLED-W4" x4 total $15.36 w/shipping, these are replacements for the 194’s in our doors, I understand “WLED-W6” would also fit and would be brighter but consume more power
Put the doors in tonight, have mixed feelings about them, they are plenty bright but also very directional, most of the light comes out in a tight cone in one way this is nice as it does not blind you when stepping out and the beam will be very visible to other drivers to show an open door from a great distance but they also do not put much light on the ground, much less than the original 360* output incandescent bulbs, I would also prefer a more balanced white light, the Superbright LED’s are a little on the blue side, but not as bad the yellow of the stock bulbs
These pictures have been lightened to about what it looks like to my eye (maybe a little brighter) as they were to dark to show anything before
Going to run them for now for the reduced power draw but later I will build something better optically and relocate these for foot well lighting or something else
Rough electrical math: (somebody double check it in case I missed something)
Stock incandescent bulbs
Doors 3W .25A x 4 = 1A
Domes 10W .83A x 2 = 1.6A
Total 32W 2.66A
That would fully drain an optima yellow top (D34 55AH) in about 20 hours, it would be to weak to start the engine sometime before that, my battery cannot start my 80 after about 8 hours with the door open
LED’s
Doors .24W .02A x 4 = .08A
Domes 1.44W .12A x 2 = .24A
Total 3.84W .32A
This would drain the same battery in 171 hours or just over a week
The other advantage George pointed out was much less heat output witch would prevent the lenses from becoming overheated and discolored
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