Hi Kenneth,

I would never give up the rectangular headlights on my ´92, but I am
thrilled about the 7" round LED headlight from trucklite and others.
The problem is that the square LED headlights have the strange SAE
"crown victoria" style and won´t replace the Vanagon´s main square
headlight.

I managed to get the other standard SAE headlights into a square vanagon
grille and frame (the ones with rounded sides, don´t know how they are
called), I am thinking of going that route regarding LED (as those are
available).
Check passenger side lamp here: www.v6bus.de/LLE1.jpg
...this was lens-type lamp test, back to standard headlamp meanwhile

I currently have HID highbeam-only  in my square grille lamps, that is a
blast! However, they need some time to get bright. I think this is cheap
1st generation china stuff, they have like 3-4 "threshholds" to brighten
up. Seems like the control module steps them up from dark to really
great (3-5 sec of time).

Raimund

Am 17.01.2017 um 17:05 schrieb kenneth wilford (Van-Again):
> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Ken Wilford
> John 3:16
> www.vanagain.com