Thinking about an LED headlight upgrade. Anyone have 1st hand input, some pictures ?

Thanks

 

Trucklite brand LED headlights are in my opinion the best looking/ performing. I also installed a headlight relay from either LMC Truck or Geno's garage. Check out Decent_Garage on youtube, he reviewed a cheaper option, I can't remember the name of the ones he used.

 

So these arent plugn play, but require additional wiring?

 

The first gens have notoriously inadequate electrical systems, with headlight wiring being near the top of the list. To prevent fires and failures, many of us resort to relays.

 

Personally I don't like LED headlights. I wish they were outlawed. The blue tinge to the light is dazzling to oncoming drivers. I bought a pair of Hella lights with replaceable bulbs. I got 100/55 watt and relays to take the load off the dimmer switch. They work quite nicely. They have a shade that keeps the light from shining in oncoming drivers eyes while they are on the dim setting. also while on dim they have a little wisker on the right side to illuminate road signs. I love them.

Edwin

 

LEDs use less current than Hallogen at the same output. So wouldnt this take load off the switch?

 

I have been thinking about LED headlights but like Edwin said I'm not a fan of how a lot of them are made, and thus how they are blinding.
There's lots of bad LED options, but now are more good options
I have the LMC wiring harness
https://www.lmctruck.com/1972-93-dod...dlight-harness
With the Halogen H4 bulb upgrade
https://www.lmctruck.com/1972-93-dod...tom-headlights
I have been toying with the idea of adding an LED version of the H4 bulb.
Something like this
https://www.xenonpro.com/h4-dual-bea...hoC-mkQAvD_BwE
Switching to the H4 conversion was a massive improvement, and the relays took the power off the switch.
A standard H4 bulb is 60w, and produces about 1500 lumens.
That Xenon brand is claiming 45w, and a staggering 9000 lumens. That's really bright.
What I like about this option is that the LED emitter is not pointing directly at oncoming traffic, but is blasted into the reflector and then out like a traditional headlight.

What you really don't want is something like this
https://www.raneystruckparts.com/4-x...xoCKg0QAvD_BwE
This will make Edwin angry, and if you install them he will not comment on your posts and you won't be able to fix your truck.

 

I'm with Edwin on this one as well...hate the LED lights and the throw of the light, seems to go out about 50' then just cut off and only light up the ground...no lighting up the surrounding areas. I live up North and we have a ton of wildlife on the roads at night and from what I find LED's don't "light" up their eyes, where as the old incandescent head lights do...so giving me more time to react. I have way better light from my stock halogen bulbs on relays, and then the high beam circuit is wired up to run both high and low at the same time, the light is amazing and 10x's better then any LED so far as I'm concerned.

 

Yes, the Trucklite's are plug and play. Added a relay for piece of mind.

 

The cheap Amazon ones I bought do use less current. So I saved the pigtail and relay kit for my bosch H4 conversion housings.

They light more than stock, but I'm undecided about the light quality. Still a good value IMHO.

 

I have a set of led driving lights that I put on the wife's work truck, and I wired them into the high beam circuit with relay, so no more blinding the oncoming traffic ( provided she dims her lights ) way better than having them on a switch

 

I have a set of truck lite knock off's in mine. They light the road up WAY better than any other light I've used, they have a clean cut off like the xenon projectors in newer cars, and not much light spill. I've even tested it with friends in front of me, and coming towards me. The only thing I don't like is when it's snowing..... They don't generate the heat to melt the snow off, so you need to pull over and clean them on occasion if it's snowing really bad.

 

Basically my take on the two sets of Trucklite headlights I have. One set is in my '91.0 with the square style lights we all have, the other is in an older poptop Ramcharger with the round head lights used in the '70s. Both are warm weather, rigs that do not get driven in the salt and snow.

I would recommend people to do some testing before deciding that LED headlights will be a good choice for someone driving their truck in the snow often.

I really like the fact they use very little juice which takes some of the load off the old Dodge wiring.

 

My cheapo's were about 1-2 amps less draw than stock. Not a lot less... but any load off is good.

 

LED's are available in different colors. So, the irritating blueish color can be avoided. II put them in my 2 cars. Dim lights a little better. Brights much better. Longer and wider illumination. So, I tried a set in the '96 Truck. And, they don't switch from bright to dim. Still trying to figure that out.