Headlight Revolution tested all the top brands of 7″ Round Headlights to find the very best of the best for the Jeep Wrangler JK.
There are many factors that go into determining whether a 7″ Round Headlight performs well or not, the most important being beam pattern and brightness. In order for a headlight’s performance to be great, it must have a good combination of beam pattern and brightness.
Vision X is known for both quality and durability. As the inventors of the LED light bar, they know a thing or two about LED lighting. Much of their technology that stems for the best light bars on earth is transferred to their 7″ Round LED Headlights.
Let’s talk about the features that make the Vision X VX Series LED headlights great.
The most basic trim levels on the Ram trucks all come with standard reflector style headlights and because the projector headlights look better, everyone wants to convert their Ram Reflector Headlights into Projector. They look like the types of headlights you’ll see on just about any truck made in the 2000’s. Basic, normal, dull, dim reflector headlights. If you’re dreaming of brighter headlights or just better looking, modem headlights just like the higher trim packages, we’ve got just the product for you! Installing Ram Projector headlights in place of Reflector headlights is easy to do with these harnesses at Headlight Revolution.
The OEM reflector headlight housings have the exact same shape as the OEM projector headlight housings. Switching to projector headlights from the reflector headlights involves some wiring adjustments. That is where this harness comes in and solves all the issues to make it a plug and play install.
Designed to adapt the 2009+ Dodge Ram Projector style headlights onto trucks that came standard with the basic Dual Halogen headlights, this harness will allow you to upgrade to the most modern Ram look without cutting, splicing, or modifying anything on the truck’s factory harness. It’s a seamless solution to keep your low and high beams under control on the new OEM projector lights using the original controls inside the cabin. The outputs will plug directly into the multi-pin connector on the back of each headlight from Dodge. This harness is designed to work with the OEM Mopar projector headlights or the aftermarket version from TYC. Both share the same multi-pin connector on the back, so the choice is yours!
You can watch the video here with more details:
Don’t be mistaken: upgrading to the projector headlights is not easy UNLESS you have this harness! You’re dealing with completely different connections on both ends, not to mention the always-annoying Mopar CANBUS system… These conversion harnesses are designed to make the upgrade easy. No hiccups, no flickering, no problem! They even have a built-in resistor to control the LED turn signals found inside the projector headlight housings.
So if you want the look of the higher Ram trim levels, get these harnesses and upgrade to projector headlights the simplest way. Find and shop for these harnesses at Headlight Revolution here.
Many vehicles today are coming with LED headlights right off the line but before this was a popular item to find direct from the manufacturer, people were already upgrading their lighting to high power LED or HID conversion kits. They do this because they want brighter lights than what was available through their old halogen headlight bulbs. Now that you’re seeing more cars and trucks come with LED or HID headlights I was curious to see how they compared to the aftermarket “conversion kit” type of option out there.
Today we got to test out the new style LED headlights on a Ford F-150 Raptor. You can get these headlights on a Non-Raptor F150, but that’s what happened to show up at our shop. The 2015 – 2017 Ford F-150 has the new “C” shaped headlight housing and comes with your choice of halogen headlights at a bargain, or an extra $3,000 for the LED option made by Ford. You can already purchase an LED Headlight Bulb kit for your F150 and so we tested the halogen headlights, versus the OEM Ford LED headlights versus the new S-V.3 LED headlights. Here are the results:
Lux is not the same as Lumen. Lumen is the sheer amount of light produced, whereas Lux is a measurement of how intense the light is at a certain point in space, like at 50 feet down the road, right in the center, the Lux can be measured between different lights to see which one sends more light in front of you than another. So for this comparison, we used a digital light meter to see how much Lux was created by each headlight option in a controlled environment. We put each headlight at 30 feet away from the wall and found the brightest single point in the beam pattern for the testing:
The old style halogen reflector headlights use a 55w halogen headlight bulb rated at about 1,100 Lumen per bulb. In this test, they produced 608 Lumen of light at 30 feet. The new style OEM LED Ford F150 headlights produced only 590 Lux at 30 feet… Yes, that’s right – the halogen reflector headlights were brighter!
Then we plugged in the S-V.3 LED headlight bulbs and the Ford F150 LED S-V.3 bulbs tested a whopping 905 Lux at 30 feet! That means the S-V.3 H11 LED headlight bulbs are 50% brighter than both Ford OEM headlights! This was a very surprising test indeed!
OEM Ford F150 Reflector Halogen: 608 Lux
OEM Ford LED F150 Headlight: 590 Lux
S-V.3 LED Headlight: 905 Lux
The new 8800 4×6 LED headlight from JW Speaker gets really hot! This is a good thing because if people are driving large trucks through the mountains ice and snow buildup on the headlight lens can be a real safety concern. Until now, if you want a hot headlight, you needed an incandescent headlight…and nobody wants that because they’re not bright and use a ton of energy! A couple years ago Truck-Lite introduced the world’s first heated lens LED headlight housing for sealed beam applications. It was a 7″ round version
A couple years ago Truck-Lite introduced the world’s first heated lens LED headlight housing for sealed beam applications. It was a 7″ round version like this: Truck-Lite 27275C. In 2017 JW Speaker released a 4×6″ sealed beam version as one iteration of their Model 8800 Evolution 2 product line. The JW Speaker model 8800 Evolution 2 4×6″ sealed beam LED headlight housing comes in a black or chrome style, and each is available in a heated lens or non-heated-lens variant.
The non-heated lens 8800 4×6 LED produces an average of 74 degrees Fahrenheit.
The traditional halogen 4×6 sealed beam produces an average of 120 degrees Fahrenheit.
The heated lens 8800 4×6 LED produces an average of 115 degrees Fahrenheit.
Non-Heated 4×6″ 8800:
Heated 4×6″ 8800:
JW Speaker is a company located in Wisconsin…that actually manufactures in Wisconsin! Can you believe it? This company is one of the last big brands that keeps their building processes in house, in the USA. If that’s not enough of a reason to buy their products, think about the fact that 99% of all cheap chinese headlights coming out on the market today were inspired by these American designs, or straight-up copied! I mean, if they’re good enough to be copied, why not buy the originals?
The real JW Speaker LED headlights have a better warranty (5 years), have better fit and finish, and better light output than any of the copycat headlights you’ll find that look like these, or are “inspired” by this design.
