[Healeys] LED Headlight Conversion advice

Michael Salter michael.salter at gmail.com
Tue Feb 19 16:50:49 MST 2019


My problem with halogen bulbs is the current draw. My generator can barely
keep up at highway speeds and there is no way that it can in traffic.
Does anyone who has completed an LED conversion have  real world numbers
for their current draw?

Thanks,

M

On Wed, Feb 20, 2019, 11:23 AM <simon.lachlan at alexarevel.plus.com wrote:

> If you’ve already, say, put in light units that will accept H4 bulbs then
> you only need to replace the bulbs. These LED things, so far as I can see,
> mount into the unit the same as an H4. BUT, their wiring goes off via
> clever electrical gizmos (relays?) out of which emerges a socket into which
> goes your original H4 connection.
>
> I put in H4 halogens, wired through relays fired up by the car’s original
> front lights’ wiring…….if you see what I mean. This makes the lights very
> much lighter than they were without going for that stark, almost overly
> white, bright light.
>
> I do think that I may put LEDs into my Oscar spot lights. They’re pretty
> big and pretty bright, but the arrows on the ammeter and battery condition
> gauges jump when they come on.
>
> Good luck with the project anyhow,
>
> Simon
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> *From:* Healeys <healeys-bounces at autox.team.net> *On Behalf Of *
> warthodson at aol.com
> *Sent:* 19 February 2019 16:26
> *To:* healeys at autox.team.net
> *Subject:* [Healeys] LED Headlight Conversion advice
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> There seems to be a big difference between the two options (Litezupp &
> Moss) listed below.
>
> I am not familiar enough with each to understand the pros & cons of each.
> Obviously, the Litzupp is a simple bulb replacement, While the Moss product
> requites some wiring adaptions.
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> The Litzupp appear to be screw in bases, not the type of base used in
> non-sealed beam headlights. Do they offer just the replacement bulb that
> would fit into an existing vintage non-sealed beam head lamp?
>
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>
> Gary Hodson
>
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> Litezupp Ind. LLC. Www.litezupp.com
>
> Ira Erbs
> Portland, OR
> typos and artifacts are the fault of my phone
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> Op 19-2-2019 om 05:21 schreef Bob Spidell:
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> Either: https://mossmotors.com/led-conversion-kits-for-7-h4-headlamps
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> (see option dropdown)
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