I have been experimenting with LED and HID bulbs in the square headlights
for a while now.  Just waiting until I got enough experience with them to
talk to the List and my customers about them.  I tried the HIDs first and
they worked kinda sorta.  If you have low voltage problem at the
headlights, the HIDs will refuse to come on.  :-(  Since lots of Vanagons
have this issue and the light from them is very glaringly not stock, I have
decided that HIDs are a bad choice for the Vanagon although they do put out
a lot of light.  There is the strange issue that the high beams on the HIDs
are still halogens too.  Yeah weird.

The LEDs seem to be the best option and I have found some bulbs that seem
to work well, and not really have much of a down side.  I know folks are
switching over to the H4 round lights and that is fine and dandy but there
will always be those of us that actually like the square headlight look,
but want more light.  Since the H4 squares have been off the scene for a
while now, going with an LED bulb in place of the crappy 9004 bulb in the
DOT housing is something I wanted to try out.  I am probably going to do a
video on it on my Youtube channel in the near future and compare with the
stock DOT lights.  Then we are going to be selling the LED bulbs through
our site at that point, so if you are interested let me know.  They will be
in the $60 range for a pair of bulbs, which isn't too bad for something
that is pretty much a drop in replacement.  Yes it is alot more than the
stock bulbs but something that actually puts out a nice light and isn't as
touchy about voltage, unloads the headlight switch without relays.  There
are lots of pluses.

Ken Wilford
John 3:16
www.vanagain.com

On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 10:31 AM, Raimund Feussner <ray@v6bus.de> wrote:

> Alistair,
>
> please also report any oncoming traffic that feels blinded by your LEDs.
> This is mostly the reason why police stops you with non-streetlegal
> bulbs...in Germany.
>
> Thanks
> Raimund
>
>
> Am 17.01.2017 um 15:05 schrieb Johann Koenig:
>
>> Just picked up 7" LED buckets:
>> http://www.van-cafe.com/home/van/page_2564_141/led_headlight_pair.html
>>
>> Have not installed yet but when I stopped by to pick them up yesterday the
>> staff said they are very good.
>>
>> On Jan 16, 2017 11:40 PM, "Alistair Bell" <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
>>
>> I had to try, the bulbs looked like they would work. And did they?
>>>
>>> See here on my blog
>>>
>>> https://shufti.blog/2017/01/16/vanagon-h4-led-light-bulb-experiment/
>>>
>>> Wasn't a complete waste of time and money, it was interesting.
>>>
>>> Alistair
>>>
>>>

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Thanks,
Ken Wilford
John 3:16
www.vanagain.com