I accept your apology with thanks. I understand why you would be proud of products that you put hours, years, heart, soul, and dollars into.
This is exactly, precisely what I said.
Oops...no. You have very completely misunderstood your obligations under the law. The requirement you have to meet is not what you might think any reasonable person can see. The requirement is that the device meet all applicable provisions of FMVSS 108. Those are expressed in terms of intensities, in candela, at test points throughout a range of vertical and horizontal angles. There are other requirements, too, such as intensity ratio between bright and dim modes (3:1 at certain test points, 5:1 at others), intensity maintenance with prolonged illumination (even some of the major-brand LED units for buses and trucks have challenges meeting this one), and others. Safety compliance is not a matter of subjective "Yeah, that looks brighter" or "Yeah, that looks bright enough" opinion. It is an objective yes/no deal which can be determined only by photometric testing on a photogoniometer. If you do not have a photogoniometer, someone who does have one has to do the test.
