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Inverted bulbs

Postby marthill » Mon Feb 09, 2009 8:47 pm

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Re: Inverted bulbs

Postby busternlouie » Mon Feb 09, 2009 9:50 pm

It means the top of the bulb goes in like a dish rather than out like a dome.
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Re: Inverted bulbs

Postby marthill » Mon Feb 09, 2009 10:00 pm

Thank you I suppose this it to fit into smaller fittings?
I guess I would need to get these to fit my side lights in my angel eyes as very small bulb and if I want to change to led this is the smallest !
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Re: Inverted bulbs

Postby renier » Mon Feb 09, 2009 10:31 pm

I've got a pair of these, nicely matching my xenon lights 8)

They have 5 power LED's so give a lot of light

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Re: Inverted bulbs

Postby Paddy » Tue Feb 10, 2009 10:26 pm

You would be much better with a 'XENON' LED They are single LEDs of W5W fitting and are much brighter and crisper colour than even multiple regular LEDs on one bulb.

I have fitted them to my lights with great results... see picture bellow.

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They give this result... Maybe not shown best in the photo... but it’s a nice crisp white colour and lights the whole strip.

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As for an inverted blub, this refers to the lens. It disperses the light over a greater radius through smaller distance. Bellow is an example of where i used an inverted LED.

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As you can see it lights up the intended area without much light bleed.

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Re: Inverted bulbs

Postby renier » Wed Feb 11, 2009 6:33 am

I've had these LED's you have before, but my new LED's give a lot more light, as they shine in 5 directions instead of only to the front
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Re: Inverted bulbs

Postby MrAsia » Wed Feb 11, 2009 6:52 am

There are no such thing as Xenon LEDs, what they are is SMD LEDs.
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Re: Inverted bulbs

Postby renier » Wed Feb 11, 2009 7:27 am

That's correct, people refer to them as xenon led's because the light colour matches xenon, but of course they have nothing to do with each other
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Re: Inverted bulbs

Postby Paddy » Wed Feb 11, 2009 9:21 am

MrAsia wrote:There are no such thing as Xenon LEDs, what they are is SMD LEDs.


I know, thus the reason for the inverted commas. As above its due to the colour output. They almost match the colour of my hids, unlike regular LEDs.

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