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Are Morimoto XB LED Headlights DOT Approved?

You need to get the proof!

You should be concerned whether or not your LED headlights are DOT approved: According to the FMVSS108 legal document that regulates automotive lighting – what the manufacturers can and cannot offer to customers – there are a lot of rules and regulations that need to be adhered to in order for a new headlight product to be considered “DOT Approved” or “DOT Compliant” or “Street Legal“. Therefore a lot of headlight products on the market today are not DOT compliant. In fact, a bunch of headlight upgrade products are stamping their packaging or products with the infamous DOT logo in hopes that nobody questions them…

LED Headlights for cars and trucks

If you’re looking for an LED headlight upgrade for your Ford F150, Mustang, Chevy Silverado or other popular car or truck you need to be careful that what you’re buying actually has the appropriate legal requirements to back up their DOT approved claim.

What it comes down to is this:

If they tell you it’s legal or DOT compliant, just ask to see the proof! The last thing any of us need is to be caught at an inspection point to find out the headlights we’re running are illegal… In other words, if you are driving with non-compliant headlights you could get a ticket or a fine.

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Best headlights for a Jeep Wrangler JK?

Headlight Housings, LED Lighting, Uncategorized, Vehicle Specific

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 VX Series Review

Headlight Housings, LED Lighting

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.

Headlight Revolution recently created a review video for the Vision X VX Series Headlights, check it out!

Let’s talk about the features that make the Vision X VX Series LED headlights great.

Convert 09-18 Ram Reflector Headlights into Projector the easy way with Headlight Revolution

Headlight Housings, HID Lighting

Everybody wants to change their Dodge Ram Reflector Headlights into Projector

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!

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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.

2017 Ford F150 LED S-V.3 Headlight Bulbs are Brighter than OEM LED!

Halogen Lighting, Headlight Housings, LED Lighting

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.

New Headlight Style for Ford

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 and Beam Patterns:

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 2015+ Ford F150 halogen reflector headlight produced 608 Lux at 30 feet. This H11 halogen headlight bulb is rated at about 1,100 Lumen per bulb.

The 2016+ Ford F150 LED module headlight produced 590 Lux at 30 feet.

The 2015+ Ford F150 reflector headlight with the S-V.3 LED headlight bulbs produced 905 Lux at 30 feet. This H11 LED headlight bulb is rated at about 3,000 Lumen per bulb.

Lux and Lumen Ratings:

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

S-V.3 LED Headlight bulbs kit from Headlight Revolution.

Temperature of the Heated 8800 JW Speaker 4×6 LED Headlight

Headlight Housings, LED Lighting

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

The First Heated Headlight:

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 new 4×6 heated lens 8800 is available in a black or chrome version.

After 5 minutes of continuous use:

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: