Increasing head lights output (full LED setup)

[IllusionX]

Hmm weird. It doesn't cut off nearly as sharp as my sedan.

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[David C]

Originally Posted by IllusionX

Hmm weird. It doesn't cut off nearly as sharp as my sedan.

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Well there's a few factors to consider here :

The headlight bulb is 25' (measured) from the white glossy garage door that isn't perfectly flat, so it gives some ripples, the headlights lens and reflectors are rather hold (I suspect they are still the stock ones as they are Toyota and doesn't look new enough to have been replaced in the last years), the phone is picking up a lot of ambient yellow light and artifacts, as I'm under a bridge.

But yes the beam pattern of the headlights is not very neat and smooth as you would get from HID projectors, and it's rather intense in the middle, but observing closely one side at the time, the cut off line is there. It's just the white beam is so intense on the white gloss background that it spills over the cutoff line. Using a black EVA foam floor mat, the light pattern is a lot easier to observe.

The LED light shields may also be producing artifacts by being just a folded over thin sheet rather than a polished cup like the halogen bulbs.

Yesterday I wired the fogs out of the low beam and into the taillight switch along with a parallel switched ground on my left dashboard (next to the mirror adjustment switch). In the city, the fog are plenty thanks to the nice and low wide beam, it's almost like having a projector headlight but 1~2 feet off the ground instead of shining up to people's side mirrors. I'm almost tempted to aim the headlights a tad lower than recommended so they actually will shine on the road more now that they have a longer reach with the led wavelength.