LED Vehicle headlights.

[epicelite]

I wanna get sum awesome super bright LED headlights.

I found this LED, brightest you can get AFAIK.
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.12721

So then what? Car is 12V right?

I was thinking...
Stick the LED onto a heatsink from a computer processor.
Get some kind of 12Vto 3.6V regulator
???????
PROFIT!


Thoughts?
Will it even be as bright as a average vehicle bulb?

 

[Mario]

Neat idea, but first, that LED puts out 900 lumens. A standard car headlight puts out 1000-1500 lumens. That's about 3/5 the brightness of a standard vehicle bulb.

Not sure what vehicle laws are, but you might be able to do it if it's legally bright enough.

The real issue, though, is really how it's focused. A 1000 lumen light could look dimmer than a 500 lumen if the 500 is focused in a small area. Assuming the car headlamp and that LED are focused the same, I really think you could do it. Just make sure to have some real heatsinking on that thing.

 

[epicelite]

What if I get like 2 of them?

 

[Mario]

2x LEDs x 2 headlights = $65.

 

[epicelite]

 

[TheNineRings]

Exspensive, or you could salvage some from a junkyard.

 

[Mario]

Yes, you didn't notice that those LEDs are $15.37 each?

 

[βeta]

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[hailrazer]

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