[Healeys] LED Headlight Conversion advice

[i erbs]

I could hardly see at night with my old sealed beam bulbs. I always out
drove the beam. Now I can see way down the road with my LEDs.
Ira Erbs
Portland,OR
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          BT7 engine and disk brakes


1967 MGB  [image: MG]

A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments. Mario Andretti
Please excuse random auto corrects and misspelled words


On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 7:36 PM Michael Salter <michael.salter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> *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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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?
>>
>>
>>
>> Gary Hodson
>>
>>
>>
>> Litezupp Ind. LLC. Www.litezupp.com
>>
>> Ira Erbs
>> Portland, OR
>> typos and artifacts are the fault of my phone
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Op 19-2-2019 om 05:21 schreef Bob Spidell:
>>
>> Either: https://mossmotors.com/led-conversion-kits-for-7-h4-headlamps
>>
>> (see option dropdown)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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