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Headlight Bulb Cross Reference

Have you ever looked up a bulb number for that HID or LED headlight conversion install you were doing and the bulb size didn’t match any part numbers? Here is a list of the most common bulb bases that you’ll need to cross reference.

9003 is the same as H4

HB2 is the same as H4

HB1 is the same as 9004

HB3 is the same as 9005

HB4 is the same as 9006

HB5 is the same as 9007

9008 is the same as H13

9145, 9140 is the same as H10

800, 891, 889 series bulbs are the same as 880

9012 is the same as 9006

H16 is the same as 5202

H8 and H9 is the same as H11

Best headlights for a Jeep Renegade.

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Headlight Revolution tested all the top brands of 7″ Round Headlights to find the very best of the best for the Jeep Rengade.

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.

Do I have CK or Standard Wiring?

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CK Bulb Socket vs. Standard Bulb Socket

CK also knows as SCK, SACK, or SRCK like this: 3157CK, 3157SACK, 3157SRCK

Only a handful of vehicles made in certain years, from a few manufacturers use a CK wired socket. Sometimes different car and truck manufacturers will change the type of wiring configuration they’ll use to power certain turn signal and brake light bulbs. Normally you would have Positive and Negative terminals on either side of the bulb, but the “CK” type wiring is different.

A CK/SRCK is like the traditional sockets you see in most Japanese, and American vehicles except it’s wired like this:

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.

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.

How much lumen do LED headlight bulbs really have?

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There are so many different LED headlight conversion kits on the market; it’s hard to decide which one is the best. Most will specify the Lumen output on the packing; normally 4,000 Lumen, 5,000 Lumen, or 6,000 Lumen. Sometimes you’ll see some headlight bulbs marked with 8,000 Lumen, 10,000 Lumen or even 12,000 Lumen. But what is the true Lumen of a LED headlight bulb?

In order to find out what’s actually true, let’s understand Lumen first.

The lumen (symbol: lm) is the SI derived unit of luminous flux, a measure of the total quantity of visible light emitted by a source. We measure the lumen of a LED headlight kit within a device called an integrating sphere. A bulb is positioned in the sphere and the light given off by the bulb is scattered inside the integrating sphere and evenly distributed to 360 degrees. The total brightness amount of a source of light can be measured accurately since light could be captured from all angles in the sphere without any interference from other light sources.