L e d s tail lights on my 64
No, it actually says 14.1 / 8.3 W :
As for buying better stuff from Honda... not in this town. I drove across town to the dealer. Clown came back to the counter with the exact same bulbs in his hand - marked Taiwan. Two loose bulbs, no package. Printed up an invoice for $18.70 I told him to keep his chinese bulbs.
So now that I know they are 28w bulbs, it is a non starter anyway. With a 45c ambient before the direct sun, I don't want to pump 28w into that 46 year old plastic assembly. Even adding glass only saves the lens in one spot - the heat is still bottled up in there.
Looks like I may need to build some boards and do it right. Nothing beats an LED for Lumens per watt. If I move the drivers outside of the housing, the boards will have less heat to shed than the tail lamp filament. At 9w, I can get 450+ lumens easily enough. I can probably put a lot more than that in that housing, I will have to look.
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No, it actually says 14.1 / 8.3 W :
As for buying better stuff from Honda... not in this town. I drove across town to the dealer. Clown came back to the counter with the exact same bulbs in his hand - marked Taiwan. Two loose bulbs, no package. Printed up an invoice for $18.70 I told him to keep his chinese bulbs.
So now that I know they are 28w bulbs, it is a non starter anyway. With a 45c ambient before the direct sun, I don't want to pump 28w into that 46 year old plastic assembly. Even adding glass only saves the lens in one spot - the heat is still bottled up in there.
Looks like I may need to build some boards and do it right. Nothing beats an LED for Lumens per watt. If I move the drivers outside of the housing, the boards will have less heat to shed than the tail lamp filament. At 9w, I can get 450+ lumens easily enough. I can probably put a lot more than that in that housing, I will have to look.
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