0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.
Waiting for light update! As requested before. Long range dark road photo, twenty feet back from garage door or wall Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
So are to many lights mounted on the truck.
as much as I hate the light bar look, given your desire to drive down the back roads and light everyting up I would look a a rigid curved 50 inch lightbar
Quote from: Bigdave_185 on September 27, 2017, 09:46:35 PMWaiting for light update! As requested before. Long range dark road photo, twenty feet back from garage door or wall Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkThose projector lights didn't put out enough light to be detectable, and they are gone. New ones just installed, but not adjusted...hang with me...
The quality projector lens acts like a led flashlight. Where it focus the light evenly vs the hot spots When high beam is used that solid cut off line is removed allowing for a full amount of light. I have and will continue to preach the right light in correct housing will offer the best light. But a quality HID kit is the better option than cheap Chinese junk. As you have found Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
So finished reading. Your scattered light is a product of the incorrect light bulb in the open housing. If you use high quality projectors with the "eye lid" that opens and shuts with your high low beam function. You will simply smooth out the "hot spots or flare" and allow the beam to shine smoothly. Let me see if I can find some internet examples Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Quote from: Bigdave_185 on September 28, 2017, 12:00:11 AMSo finished reading. Your scattered light is a product of the incorrect light bulb in the open housing. If you use high quality projectors with the "eye lid" that opens and shuts with your high low beam function. You will simply smooth out the "hot spots or flare" and allow the beam to shine smoothly. Let me see if I can find some internet examples Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkI installed the recommended Retrofit HID Morimoto kit. That should have been fine I would thinkI ordered new housings which I thought were OEM, however checking the Amazon order, they are ArtZone OEM quality Chinaman units:https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00UW09QJE/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1The low beam H11 bulbs have three tabs which do not precisely match up to the openings in the bulb socket (Quality issue??) And I do not get a positive stop when turning the bulb to "seat it" That may explain why I have a line of light going off in a strange direction, I don't know.I do have the reflector like pattern and not the crisp break in light pattern of the shown projector housing
Quote from: Flyin6 on September 28, 2017, 09:58:50 AMQuote from: Bigdave_185 on September 28, 2017, 12:00:11 AMSo finished reading. Your scattered light is a product of the incorrect light bulb in the open housing. If you use high quality projectors with the "eye lid" that opens and shuts with your high low beam function. You will simply smooth out the "hot spots or flare" and allow the beam to shine smoothly. Let me see if I can find some internet examples Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkI installed the recommended Retrofit HID Morimoto kit. That should have been fine I would thinkI ordered new housings which I thought were OEM, however checking the Amazon order, they are ArtZone OEM quality Chinaman units:https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00UW09QJE/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1The low beam H11 bulbs have three tabs which do not precisely match up to the openings in the bulb socket (Quality issue??) And I do not get a positive stop when turning the bulb to "seat it" That may explain why I have a line of light going off in a strange direction, I don't know.I do have the reflector like pattern and not the crisp break in light pattern of the shown projector housingI just looked at the black housing you bought prior to the OEM set & they appear to be a projector style housing. I'd try the Morimoto kit on that housing, do just one side & do a side by side comparison to see if the light is more focused. I apologize if I led you down the wrong path & cost you money, but I still stand by the Morimoto brand.
Quote from: DDS on September 29, 2017, 07:28:02 AMQuote from: Flyin6 on September 28, 2017, 09:58:50 AMQuote from: Bigdave_185 on September 28, 2017, 12:00:11 AMSo finished reading. Your scattered light is a product of the incorrect light bulb in the open housing. If you use high quality projectors with the "eye lid" that opens and shuts with your high low beam function. You will simply smooth out the "hot spots or flare" and allow the beam to shine smoothly. Let me see if I can find some internet examples Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkI installed the recommended Retrofit HID Morimoto kit. That should have been fine I would thinkI ordered new housings which I thought were OEM, however checking the Amazon order, they are ArtZone OEM quality Chinaman units:https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00UW09QJE/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1The low beam H11 bulbs have three tabs which do not precisely match up to the openings in the bulb socket (Quality issue??) And I do not get a positive stop when turning the bulb to "seat it" That may explain why I have a line of light going off in a strange direction, I don't know.I do have the reflector like pattern and not the crisp break in light pattern of the shown projector housingI just looked at the black housing you bought prior to the OEM set & they appear to be a projector style housing. I'd try the Morimoto kit on that housing, do just one side & do a side by side comparison to see if the light is more focused. I apologize if I led you down the wrong path & cost you money, but I still stand by the Morimoto brand.Hey, don't worry about itYou were only trying to helpAs for the current situation, I adjusted these new housings down to their lowest position and I started to see a coordinated/useable pattern, although it has hot spots and washes out areas. I brought the light up in increments and have something which I think I can use. Now the high beam lights are actually visible and not just filling in the area of the broadcast light. I'll give it a night of way back roads driving tonight/tomorrow and see how it is working out. I'd like to just be done with this.
Hope you find an answer Don...After months of fighting my HID lights and all the other junk I kept trying, I must say the smartest thing I did was go back to factory oem lights, oem assembly, and spend $600 or more on a Rigid 30" light bar that mounted directly to my front bumper. It's been almost 5 years now, and I still have and use that light bar. Never missed a beat...
I just don't want to wind up missing a digit or limb. I can sometimes get in a hurry to get results.