LED conversion????

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jlcustomz

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Doug, I was going to mention Bi-Xenon projection style headlights also. Haven't studied up much on this crap last few years but still looks like LED for actual headlights is still pricier & not as good of lighting when it comes to headlights.
My experience is from the 2016 camaro SS front conversion, which also has some brite *ss led runner lights , which I doubled up on the auxiliaries. The large headlight running lights & twin auxiliaries alone put out more light than my old halogen projector lights I made.
Larger more powerful LED setups have a driver, whether separate or integrated. Still lower power draw & shouldn't need additional amperage from an add on relay. This means of you want to add on an aftermarket running light in place of factory running lights for some modern brightness (hint hint ) , just need to connect to existing positive & negative.
For Bi-Xenon setups, you have a ballast to power them, which is sorta like florescent lights. It needs to wire in to a 12 volt power source, which may mean running a relay from battery. then the controller needs input from high beam & low beam wires. The strange thing on Bi-xenon is there is only 1 bulb, the high beam input lifts a shade at the top of the projector, which was creating the low beam. They also use less actual power than old halogens did.

Which system would I choose now? Not sure without updating research, but either would be great. Now on maintenance, if LED goes out, it could be replace separately light assembly & /or driver or entire integrated unit. For HID, you have bulbs & or Ballasts, keeping existing housing.

So either way, may require a little wiring, but nothing to be scared of. You got my #. No worse than hooking up an old Kraco equalizer.:p Now on a true plug & play, you may be plugging in to a f'd up old connector, so having to splice wires can have an advantage on old stuff.

In case you don't fully understand the function of a relay, they just need a low amperage signal to trigger the internal coil & contacts to connect the high power input to output. They take the load off switches, which is great for old electrical systems.
The good part is that they can be configured different ways & be positive or negative triggered. You can do so many cool things with them such as a magnetic trigger hidden in a marker light for keyless entry, etc, etc. Bosch has an old pdf guide that's pretty cool.
The bad thing is there are a few types & different connectors. These damn aftermarket connectors from different suppliers can have all different wire colors, so you do have to pay attention to actual connection to relay terminals.

Hope this helps, if anyone needs Ibuprofin after reading,, sorry.
 
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