Re: Standard, LED, and HID Lamp Solutions and Numbers
Don't intend to burst your bulb / bubble, but need to point out that a 'bulb' made up of 18 Surface Mounted Device (SMD) LEDs just cannot provide anything close to satisfactory performance in our headlamps.
The design of the reflector and lens, etc. for H7 or similar bulbs starts with light coming from a really small, precisely positioned, very bright light source. For the Crossfire lamps this is all set up for the halogen type incandescent bulb. These may be closely approximated by the small area of the High Intensity Discharge (HID) arc.
Putting all those SMD LED sources around the general area of where the original incandescent filament is supposed to be could NOT give you the intended light pattern, even if the total intensity might add up to be equivalent (which is unlikely).
So may be worth the pretty low price to see what you get, but it cannot be anything like what you want and need from high beams for driving on a dark road at night. And perhaps something like this might be OK for 'fog' lamps used only for 'looks,' and never depended upon to see where the road is so you can stay on it in actual fog.
I have wondered a similar / related question, in case anyone can share their experience here: if I replace both LO and HI beam bulbs with HIDs, what sort of issues happen when switching between the two while driving? Since the HID needs a few seconds to come to full brightness, does this setup just not work in practice? I see some folks keep their halogen HI beam lamps in place when going to HID for the LO beams. Is this a good way for the Crossfire?
Thanks!