Halogen vs HID vs LED headlights comparison test, In this video, we compare these bulbs from different angels so that you can make the best decision to purchase. Thanks for watching and if you like our videos, please give us a thumbs up, and subscribe to see more installation videos! Fast Bulb finder for your vehicle is here: allalighting.com/pages/bulb-finder-shop-by-vehicle-led-light-bulb-car-truck, just input your vehicle's Make, Model, bulb type and find related LED lights bulbs options.
The conclusion is completly wrong and in many cases recommends illegal result. It should be: In this test for this car this particular LED bulb gives brighter lighting comparing to this (unknown to public) HID setup and whatever brand halogen bulb was used. In most cases afternarket LED bulbs have quite poor reliability and are absolutely horrible in reflector type housing. Even with projector housing (as shown on the video) Led bulb creates a mosaic of bright and dark spots (terrible for night vision). By the way what is the reason for temperature comparison?
@Peter Peter, Can you explain a little about how light emitted from an LED is poorer than light emitted from another source in wet or fog? Is it about the color temperature?
Being a headlight junkie and having tried everything myself, I can tell you that absolutely NOTHING beats a 35w HID projector retrofitted 4300k setup. You get the purest white light and the cleanest cutoff beam without being annoyingly too bright and flashy. Sometimes having a bright light isn't necessarily the best because you are blinding everyone on the road. Be respectful of other drivers. The color output also depends on your ballast as well. Anything below 4300k is getting in the yellow, and anything above 5k is too blue (ive owned 3k, 5k, 6k, 8k, 10k. IMO and many others, 4300k to 5k is the sweet spot for the best output) If you want to do a comparison video, please don't use a cheapo plug and play HID kit. It is misleading information. HID's are meant to be used in an HID specific housing.
Which one performs better on wet roads at night and during rainy conditions? My company fitted LED headlamps n Fog lamps didn't do they job well in these conditions.
@@NeerajBharwani The saying kinda goes "you gotta pay to play". This is also true of lights. Honestly anything can be bright, but the well engineered stuff usually focuses the light on the road and not at the sky. If your headlight uses halogen bulbs, I would not use anything other than halogen bulbs. Manufacturers engineer these types of headlights to scatter light, and they do that well. If you want the best, search up a "how to" on retrofitting HID's. They take a bit of skill and money, but they cannot be beat. Just be sure you arent just throwing in a cheapo plug and play kit. I've started doing these about 14 years ago and honestly have never regretted it. These days they make it easy to do. On my current car, I don't even bother using high beams or fog lights. The HID's just completely embarrasses them.
Yes, it is using 8000K HID for test, the color temperature will be different at different distance. 4.3K is kind of yellowish color, which is not good performance for HID, usually for most HID, it is 8K.
@@AllaLighting If you really wanted a good test, you would have used 5k. Instead, you used 8k, which cuts down on the light output. 5k is the sweet spot.
Great video. I drive a 2015 Volvo big rig with primitive projector headlights. Halogen weren't bright enough, LED's only lit up flat surfaces, especially reflective, but not the road, and so I settled on HID's. So far, so good, but they occasionally flicker, which I don't care for. Keep on Truckin'!!
Weird to use an 8k HID, imo they look best between 5-6k and still have impressive brightness. Also what brand HID bulb are you using? Not all bulbs are made equal when it comes to hids
Very detailed, scientific and also explained well in layman terms. This really helped me with headlight upgrade selection. Thank you for you incredible attention to detail!
This is one of the most in-depth vids on lighting I have ever seen. Most definitely a sub now and thanks you for the measurements, I know what I am going to have to decide from with an understanding of the units now. Thanks.
Should had used 5000k or 4300k hid and brightness readings would have been better. Looks like you used 8000k hid for test...Unfair bro because its lower lux.
This is exactly what I was looking for, a straight comparison of different lights in different areas. Thank you for making this video and educating us.
Gone over to LED in my Honda CRV. Love them over halogen but my last car had factory HID lamps which are superior ...LED is a good cheaper alternative if you want white headlamps but dont want the expense of decent HID kits
Before anyone starts buying $400 LED or HID kits for your car, please consider the setup of your headlights. Is it a reflector or projector housing? If it’s a projector, is it a halogen projector, LED projector or HID projector. My car came with a stock halogen projectors and without proper knowledge I immediately swapped out the halogens for a high end LED bulb with the expectation of putting out much brighter light on the road. It should come as no surprise that the foreground (the area directly in front of your vehicle) was bright AF but I noticed my car couldn’t light up the road ahead. Turns out, the beam pattern of LED’s vary greatly compared to halogen bulbs and within a week I had to switch back because I kept driving into potholes and couldn’t see shit
Bro my car is skoda laura and it has Halogen projector, I am also planning to get LED lights for it... After reading your comment I am changing my mind.
Interesting results. From my years of testing and multiple retrofits. A good ballast, bulb and hid projector 4300K to just under 5000k retrofit beats any drop-in kit. This is 100% of the time. It also outperforms many oem LED setups too. My current 2017 Lincoln OEM hid had horrible output and the LED helped for that car. Neither of them come close to the Honda S2000 AP1 Hid retrofit on my Dodge Magnum. Denso quick starting ballasts and Nightbreaker D2S 4500k bulbs.
I been watching review after review of people talking about LED/HID/Halogen, but your's is the first video I've seen that actually breaks down each one. Thank you. This is way more helpful than just talking about them.
Thanks for doing these tests, I am now sold on LEDs for my reflector headlamps. Upgrading from sealed-beam halogen which are too easy to overdrive at highways speeds.
I just got rid of my LED bulbs and replaced them with 6000k HID and it is so much better with the HID kit, has a clear cut out, better range, and that nice OEM style white like the xenon models
Thanks for your comment, we will have comparison test to see how it looks for 6000K HID performance VS LEDs. Currently a lot of different brands LED headlight bulbs, which have different performance, we will have more comparison test videos in the future, thanks again for your time to watch and comment with wise idea.
I love this test. Finally, something very scientific, data driven test results unlike other videos out there that doesn’t back their claim with data and it’s all words, opinions, bad camera lighting and they sound like a desperate sales person. This is the real deal backed by data. For those commenters defending HID or LED-I’d like to see these commenters do the same exact data driven testing to prove their point. Basically, video proof with well documented, scientific data or it didn’t happen.
LED’s also have somewhat of a warm up period. They decrease in lumens as they reach full operating temp. This isn’t as well known as one would think. But they will always be brighter initially when first switched on.
@@nordicpride9708 if you look up "do led lights have to warm up" there are countless resources saying they do not. And multiple sources proving how and why too
leds are not brighter than hids.. your using aftermarket cheap hid thats why the lux on led is higher. but if you compare it with the oem hid then they are brighter
Sam, I think it solely depends on the vehicle, itself, rather if light-emitting diodes or high intensity-discharge headlamps are available or standard; furthermore, I think on a vehicle like a 2019 Cadillac Escalade with nine crystal LED individual bulbs compared to a 2019 Cadillac CTS Premium with high intensity-discharge headlamps, the Escalade headlamps will illuminate in a far better capacity than that CTS Premium. Needless to say, a Toyota Corolla LED headlamps compared to a Chevrolet Impala Premier Bi-Xenon headlamps may not be as bright as the Xenon headlamps found in the Chevy based on voltage and power.
@@MrTblackmon lux is a measurement of intensity per surface size. You can cluster LEDs and get more brightness, but HID gives more brightness per surface area, or lux. LED will one day pass HID but right now HID is still the king of Lux. What that means is HID beam goes farther than LED.
@@MrTblackmon Your lack of knowledge about how headlights work truly "shines" 🤭 LED headlights are still inferior to HID in 2019 on any make or model of vehicle.
All the people who spent $500-$1000 on HID kits and housing conversions are just mad that a pair of plug and play LED can be bought for $50 and look just as good. Now I wont argue they are not as good yet. HID are still crisper and clearer, but brightness they're the getting to be the same. Like i said, salt in the wounds at $25-$50 lol.
@@mrs.f8611 do a search for lexus ls430 retrofit. Look at that HID beam its 7 lanes wide. Led bulbs get completely shit on by a proper oem hid retrofit. You get what you pay for.
I've never seen an HID outlast a candle's lifespan. So it's all about preference. I'd rather change my light bulbs once per lifetime of vehicle and keep a clean consistent color in the bulb's light rather than changing my bulbs and ballasts once every year or two. I've had too many HID kits both cheap and expensive start to turn pink or green or just entirely burnout or flicker and my ballast burnout and short out. Just a shitty technology, hid..... So lowbrow and truly a product for yesboys and fanboys. All day in a city of 1.5 million people all I see is 1 HID bulb going slightly green or pink or 1 HID bulb burnt out. Just terrible terrible engineering and technology. But keep a shitty thing alive. Just like all those people that fought to keep asbestos in their houses or lead in their paint or radium in their toothpaste and wrist watches. But hey, who am I to be logical?
Very interesting test, though I don't quite understand the rather large delta of color temperatures. I guess it depends on where in the light cone you measure, for projector type headlights you can get quite a bit of chromatic aberration towards the edges of the light cone (regardless of light source). But 8000 Kelvin HIDs are not OEM standard for many cars, it's usually more like 5600K.
Question. I just purchased some low beams lights today for my 2005 Honda odessy Ex-L. I purchased bulbs close to HID. Is any bulbs better than that? I'm still learning.
GREAT JOB! The testing is very thorough, simple and clear. Kudos for that! However, as mentioned, it would have been better specifying what kind of chip the LED kit had. That HID was blueish, probably a 8000k colour temp. You didn't mention if it was a 35 or 55w ballast, nor the brand. No way a HID bulb has less brightness than halogen. As I perceive this test, it seems it wants us to believe LED illuminates better than HID. LED is not right there yet with a decent HID kit. Projectors don't suit LED bulbs, so I conclude something really strange happened there.
Thanks for your comment and great suggestions, yes , we will take more consideration for coming videos and make improvement to try our best to make the video more clear, thanks again for your time to watch and amazing suggestions.
Yea, you’re exactly right. 8000k hids are stupid and hardly anyone runs them. People who want quality light run 4300-5000k and that would be something worth comparing to. LEDs are garbage for headlights and I’m sticking to that until they outdo 4300k hids for actual driving vision, not looks or foreground brightness which ruins actual down-road vision. Don’t care if they save 8 watts, we have plenty of alternator in our cars to support 84 watts worth of headlights.
using a halogen reflector with an HID is not a fair comparison because of HIDs tendency to have severe hot spotting. The HID projectors like the D2S has an anamorphic effect that strethes the HID beam, giving it a wider footprint.
Yea, agree about the 8k range chosen to compare with, and I wonder if that was intentional. That color range light makes me nauseous from the view from the car.
I have a 2015 AUdi Q5 with HID 35w bixenon headlights. Dealer does not recommend 55w as they will burn the plastic housing. What do you recommend to improve visibility ??? particular brand ??
Thanks for your comment,in fact, if you choose to upgrade to LED headlights bulbs, the working power can't reach to 55W, currently the most powerful one is about 45W, yet when the led headlight bulb heat dissipation part not touch the vehicle's plastic part, then it will be safe, no burn. Yet for your car, extra load resistors maybe required to avoid the malfunction or error code when you upgrade to led, if you need load resistors, please make sure the metal part of the load resistors attach to your vehicle's metal part, no touch any plastic or wiring for it will get hot while working
Leave it as it is, your OEM HIDs will always be better than whatever LED bulb you put in there. I know they're trying to sell their product but telling someone with OEM HID headlights to put aftermarket LED bulbs is terrible advice - especially with a test as biased as this, 8000k HID bulbs are useless in terms of light output, even halogens are better. (You also won't see that much of a difference by going 55w either and it's unlikely it would melt anything)
I can tell a lot of work went into this, great work. What can i do for a 2006 DTS? The headlights both low and high beams are horrible and can't see much. Looking at the headlights, they appear very bright and white.
Cars that are designed to use LEDs will often have multiple LEDs though. LEDs can be smaller. My car has 5 LED bulbs and a strip per headlight. And another strip for the turn signals.
HID's seems very specific in where the light is, all other areas are way more dark. LED's appear the strongest, but since they are 7000k it's actually soft color, so you loose visibility. Pretty sure those halogens are super cheap ones, but even then they outperformed the HID's. Though I think for best results you should be looking at 4700k halogens and HID ones. Unfortunately its hard to find 4000-5000k LED's, they are usually over 7000k , therefore they have to be stronger, but they also reduce visibility of incoming drivers. So overall I'd say LED's are a bad choice as they tend to blind oncoming drivers the most and they have a very soft 7000k color.
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Very cool, I got them LEDs for a small project I'm making, but I would think they are going to be to bright? I would have to learn how to lower the lux
When you compare a very expensive led kit to the cheapest hid kit your gonna choose the led. If you had an equal quality hid kit with a 5000k temp rating it would easily out perform these led an halogen. Don't be fooled
@@AllaLighting extreme vision is a 30 dollar hid kit. That's a cheap garbage kit especially in 8000 Kelvin color temperature. You can tell they're junk because the color doesnt match between the 2 hid bulbs.
@@Spyder_tsi agreed.. based on my experience from 2008, a crappy hid kit (sometime it came with cheap price) will give a different color no matter what the specification (3000-12000K, 35-55w, etc), and it happen on this vids..
Very true , i bought 6000k Led kit and Hid Kit both of them was not good at far distance , so i got my stock halogen Philips back to my car that worked great on far distance. Some months after i saw a friend using a 5000K hid kit and it was great shooting far away like my Halogen , So Hid 5000K was great for close and far distance . Your comment must be fist up so everyone can see it and learn.
My car default bulb was Halogen Philips 3700K . I bought a HID kit 6000K it was very bright but no so good in far distances, so i bought a LED kit and again to bright up close but not good at all at far distance and highway . So back to my stock Philips Halogen.
Thanks for your comment, yes, different brands and different versions of led headlight bulbs will perform quite big different, it is recommended to choose the reliable brand which will be better for performance and customer support.
35 watt ballast has proven to be brighter and richer color constance. 55 watt is actually detrimental to the performance. Especially in places that are cold. The ballot will burn out much quicker.
At the head to head table, (minute 9:20): The Halogen output starts at 176 lx (7 feet), but increases to 255 lx (at 25 feet at wall)? HID output starts at 227 lx (at 7 feet), but increases to 295 lx (at 33 feet)? How can light gain power? There's something wrong there. Would it be more accurate if you average across 3 points for each distance (one at center of each headlight, and one at center of vehicle)?
The best light output will come from a projector that's designed to be used with an HID bulb. There are a couple of projectors out there that have a built-in, non-replaceable LED that are pretty damn nice but, they still aren't as good as HID. And none of the drop in LED bulbs for projectors are very impressive. Lookup Headlight Revolution, Light Werkz, Morimoto and The Retrofit Source here on TH-cam. Tons of great info
looks like the headlight housing is not designed for HID or LED. The halogen bulbs looked fine plus they probably, wouldn't glare into oncoming traffic like the LEDS will. The design of the headlight it self should have been taken into consideration!
He has projector headlights, HID & LED we’re designed for projectors. Hence why you can see a clean cut off. While the halogen work better than I expected, he is using the correct housing and lights just the same as a new car from the assembly line. This is the industry is now. Like it or not.
Everything's fine. Hid are more suitable to be a headlight drawing peak lumens at 33 feet or 10 mts. But beyond that distance it fades out. Another biggest issue would be it would be hot like hell which would degrade the housing over time. So led is the winner for me.
Best information on headlight bulbs. Just used this to show my co worker LED's are the new hotness now. LED's have come a long way. Killed it with vid broski!
Hi, I want to replace my stock halogen low beam in a 2016 titanium Ford Fusion. It has projector from factory. Do think led is the best option with stock projector? Which brands do you recommend?
@Jonathan Hi, what type of led did you try? Cree, cob, csp? I've ordered a pair of H11 with csp technology. It's supposed to emit the source of light as halogen bulb does. I hope it work fine
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The conclusion is completly wrong and in many cases recommends illegal result. It should be: In this test for this car this particular LED bulb gives brighter lighting comparing to this (unknown to public) HID setup and whatever brand halogen bulb was used. In most cases afternarket LED bulbs have quite poor reliability and are absolutely horrible in reflector type housing. Even with projector housing (as shown on the video) Led bulb creates a mosaic of bright and dark spots (terrible for night vision).
By the way what is the reason for temperature comparison?
@K M where do trolls come from
@Peter Peter, Can you explain a little about how light emitted from an LED is poorer than light emitted from another source in wet or fog? Is it about the color temperature?
@@kenpeck5930 it's about facts pulled out of his ass. In other words, his fact is sh*t
Being a headlight junkie and having tried everything myself, I can tell you that absolutely NOTHING beats a 35w HID projector retrofitted 4300k setup. You get the purest white light and the cleanest cutoff beam without being annoyingly too bright and flashy. Sometimes having a bright light isn't necessarily the best because you are blinding everyone on the road. Be respectful of other drivers. The color output also depends on your ballast as well. Anything below 4300k is getting in the yellow, and anything above 5k is too blue (ive owned 3k, 5k, 6k, 8k, 10k. IMO and many others, 4300k to 5k is the sweet spot for the best output)
If you want to do a comparison video, please don't use a cheapo plug and play HID kit. It is misleading information. HID's are meant to be used in an HID specific housing.
you are really expert on this
try YUFANYA bixenon projector lens
Which one performs better on wet roads at night and during rainy conditions? My company fitted LED headlamps n Fog lamps didn't do they job well in these conditions.
@@NeerajBharwani The saying kinda goes "you gotta pay to play". This is also true of lights. Honestly anything can be bright, but the well engineered stuff usually focuses the light on the road and not at the sky. If your headlight uses halogen bulbs, I would not use anything other than halogen bulbs. Manufacturers engineer these types of headlights to scatter light, and they do that well. If you want the best, search up a "how to" on retrofitting HID's. They take a bit of skill and money, but they cannot be beat. Just be sure you arent just throwing in a cheapo plug and play kit. I've started doing these about 14 years ago and honestly have never regretted it. These days they make it easy to do. On my current car, I don't even bother using high beams or fog lights. The HID's just completely embarrasses them.
@@sengalang Do you have a recommendation? I am in the uk and i drive an i30 mk2 and i would like to set up hid 4300k. Thanks
Like the organized approach here. Very nice that you summarized the results at each distance, then provided the grand summary @ the end.
Should of went with 4300k, 5000k or 6000k for Hid, why use 8000k for your test. The higher the Kelvin color from 5000k, you lose brightness
Yes, it is using 8000K HID for test, the color temperature will be different at different distance. 4.3K is kind of yellowish color, which is not good performance for HID, usually for most HID, it is 8K.
@@AllaLighting If you really wanted a good test, you would have used 5k. Instead, you used 8k, which cuts down on the light output. 5k is the sweet spot.
@@AllaLighting 8k is not the usual application for most HID, ya'll smoking some good shit
@K M Do you feel better?
Hid will always be better, tech on led chips and drivers aren't there yet for small purposes like headlights.
Great video. I drive a 2015 Volvo big rig with primitive projector headlights.
Halogen weren't bright enough, LED's only lit up flat surfaces, especially reflective, but not the road, and so I settled on HID's.
So far, so good, but they occasionally flicker, which I don't care for. Keep on Truckin'!!
That is great, and thanks for your watching
finally someone shows you in a professional way
thank you very much.
Thanks very much for your feedback
Weird to use an 8k HID, imo they look best between 5-6k and still have impressive brightness. Also what brand HID bulb are you using? Not all bulbs are made equal when it comes to hids
Agree specially if he is using a DC output ballast instead of a AC output ballast.
Agree, shouldn't be using 8k bulbs
Very detailed, scientific and also explained well in layman terms. This really helped me with headlight upgrade selection. Thank you for you incredible attention to detail!
hid 4300k -5000k is the best bro...
So basically I'm still good with duct taping my flashlights to the hood of my car....
No...thats stupid...
Use super glue.
Hahaha
@@enbardis Naw duct tape fixes everything 🥴
Better to drill it in
This is one of the most in-depth vids on lighting I have ever seen. Most definitely a sub now and thanks you for the measurements, I know what I am going to have to decide from with an understanding of the units now. Thanks.
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I'm mad that most people are using "your"/"you're" the wrong way.
Great video, haters are gonna hate
Should had used 5000k or 4300k hid and brightness readings would have been better. Looks like you used 8000k hid for test...Unfair bro because its lower lux.
This is exactly what I was looking for, a straight comparison of different lights in different areas. Thank you for making this video and educating us.
Man, I really appreciate this video. I’m bout to go get my LED lights right now.
Gone over to LED in my Honda CRV. Love them over halogen but my last car had factory HID lamps which are superior ...LED is a good cheaper alternative if you want white headlamps but dont want the expense of decent HID kits
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The best headlights bulb technologies comparision. Excellent video 👌
Before anyone starts buying $400 LED or HID kits for your car, please consider the setup of your headlights. Is it a reflector or projector housing? If it’s a projector, is it a halogen projector, LED projector or HID projector. My car came with a stock halogen projectors and without proper knowledge I immediately swapped out the halogens for a high end LED bulb with the expectation of putting out much brighter light on the road. It should come as no surprise that the foreground (the area directly in front of your vehicle) was bright AF but I noticed my car couldn’t light up the road ahead. Turns out, the beam pattern of LED’s vary greatly compared to halogen bulbs and within a week I had to switch back because I kept driving into potholes and couldn’t see shit
Bro my car is skoda laura and it has Halogen projector, I am also planning to get LED lights for it... After reading your comment I am changing my mind.
HIDs work better in projector headlights. I'm glad our car has reflectors so I'm happy with our top-of-the-line LED.
Thanks for taking the time to perform this comparison.
It is our pleasure
Interesting results. From my years of testing and multiple retrofits. A good ballast, bulb and hid projector 4300K to just under 5000k retrofit beats any drop-in kit. This is 100% of the time. It also outperforms many oem LED setups too. My current 2017 Lincoln OEM hid had horrible output and the LED helped for that car. Neither of them come close to the Honda S2000 AP1 Hid retrofit on my Dodge Magnum. Denso quick starting ballasts and Nightbreaker D2S 4500k bulbs.
Bro thanks for this video it really helped me to understand the difference between Halogen,Hid & Led. Today you added something new to my knowledge
I have a doubt about the reading of lux of LED at 33 feet.
Well done! Your test methods are better than most of the scientists in the world. Thanks for the information.
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I been watching review after review of people talking about LED/HID/Halogen, but your's is the first video I've seen that actually breaks down each one. Thank you. This is way more helpful than just talking about them.
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Pfft... Not impressed. I'll stick to my kerosene lamp lighting my car
Lmao
Pfff! You nasty petrol head! The better lamp runs on acetylene.
Hillbillies! Use flashlights
OSCAR BADILLO is that the “good old days” everyone says we’re so great?
Buhahaha
Good video, after watching so many video, this video helps to decide the light for my car, thank you
for the night driving safe, use 4300k. It gives you more information of road environment.
5000k or 6000k would be your best options if you want something whiter. I have used 8000k for long time and no problems with them
Thanks for doing these tests, I am now sold on LEDs for my reflector headlamps. Upgrading from sealed-beam halogen which are too easy to overdrive at highways speeds.
@Mike Guilmette lies. Been
Using LEDS for over 5 years now. Definitely better than halogen.
@Mike Guilmette leds are great if you have projector headlights. Anything other than that and you will blind people.
I just got rid of my LED bulbs and replaced them with 6000k HID and it is so much better with the HID kit, has a clear cut out, better range, and that nice OEM style white like the xenon models
Thanks for your comment, we will have comparison test to see how it looks for 6000K HID performance VS LEDs. Currently a lot of different brands LED headlight bulbs, which have different performance, we will have more comparison test videos in the future, thanks again for your time to watch and comment with wise idea.
@@AllaLighting its a pleasure... Glad to help out
Fantastic demonstration guy! One of the best I've seen. Thanks for the effort and time.
I love this test. Finally, something very scientific, data driven test results unlike other videos out there that doesn’t back their claim with data and it’s all words, opinions, bad camera lighting and they sound like a desperate sales person. This is the real deal backed by data. For those commenters defending HID or LED-I’d like to see these commenters do the same exact data driven testing to prove their point. Basically, video proof with well documented, scientific data or it didn’t happen.
Thanks very much for your feedback
LED’s also have somewhat of a warm up period. They decrease in lumens as they reach full operating temp. This isn’t as well known as one would think. But they will always be brighter initially when first switched on.
LEDs have zero warm up period. you are thinking of hid
@@gaming-machine4692 No I’m not. Look into the subject and you will see. I’ve done a lot of research.
@@nordicpride9708 Yes, only a few miliseconds. Don't be a pedant!
@@alejandroperez5368 It’s more than a few millisecond simp. Don’t tell me shit. Run along now.
@@nordicpride9708 if you look up "do led lights have to warm up" there are countless resources saying they do not. And multiple sources proving how and why too
led is better but did you notice the shadow of the led modules in the light pattern ? :)
Best comparison video found in my entire life. Subscribed and commenting. Have a great day/life
leds are not brighter than hids.. your using aftermarket cheap hid thats why the lux on led is higher. but if you compare it with the oem hid then they are brighter
Sam, I think it solely depends on the vehicle, itself, rather if light-emitting diodes or high intensity-discharge headlamps are available or standard; furthermore, I think on a vehicle like a 2019 Cadillac Escalade with nine crystal LED individual bulbs compared to a 2019 Cadillac CTS Premium with high intensity-discharge headlamps, the Escalade headlamps will illuminate in a far better capacity than that CTS Premium.
Needless to say, a Toyota Corolla LED headlamps compared to a Chevrolet Impala Premier Bi-Xenon headlamps may not be as bright as the Xenon headlamps found in the Chevy based on voltage and power.
@@MrTblackmon lux is a measurement of intensity per surface size. You can cluster LEDs and get more brightness, but HID gives more brightness per surface area, or lux. LED will one day pass HID but right now HID is still the king of Lux. What that means is HID beam goes farther than LED.
@@MrTblackmon Your lack of knowledge about how headlights work truly "shines" 🤭 LED headlights are still inferior to HID in 2019 on any make or model of vehicle.
All the people who spent $500-$1000 on HID kits and housing conversions are just mad that a pair of plug and play LED can be bought for $50 and look just as good. Now I wont argue they are not as good yet. HID are still crisper and clearer, but brightness they're the getting to be the same. Like i said, salt in the wounds at $25-$50 lol.
@@mrs.f8611 do a search for lexus ls430 retrofit. Look at that HID beam its 7 lanes wide. Led bulbs get completely shit on by a proper oem hid retrofit. You get what you pay for.
You should test it again while keeping the color temperature of all 3 nearly same.
Dam this is done so well it can be a university research paper 👏 I like the wider brighter beam of the LED
What kind of HID did you use? I have never seen LEDs and halogens have more lux than HIDs...
8K, which explains a lot, 8K is for the cool kids, 4K-5K is for the people that like to see where they're going
I've never seen an HID outlast a candle's lifespan. So it's all about preference. I'd rather change my light bulbs once per lifetime of vehicle and keep a clean consistent color in the bulb's light rather than changing my bulbs and ballasts once every year or two. I've had too many HID kits both cheap and expensive start to turn pink or green or just entirely burnout or flicker and my ballast burnout and short out. Just a shitty technology, hid..... So lowbrow and truly a product for yesboys and fanboys. All day in a city of 1.5 million people all I see is 1 HID bulb going slightly green or pink or 1 HID bulb burnt out. Just terrible terrible engineering and technology.
But keep a shitty thing alive. Just like all those people that fought to keep asbestos in their houses or lead in their paint or radium in their toothpaste and wrist watches. But hey, who am I to be logical?
Very interesting test, though I don't quite understand the rather large delta of color temperatures. I guess it depends on where in the light cone you measure, for projector type headlights you can get quite a bit of chromatic aberration towards the edges of the light cone (regardless of light source). But 8000 Kelvin HIDs are not OEM standard for many cars, it's usually more like 5600K.
do you suggest going hid headlights and led fog lights or vice versa?
Best headlight test on the TH-cam!
Thank you sir!
What ?? Sorry to say, no it isn't
cant you smell the sarcasm ?
Question. I just purchased some low beams lights today for my 2005 Honda odessy Ex-L. I purchased bulbs close to HID. Is any bulbs better than that? I'm still learning.
I know this i late, but... :) A verry good comparison test! Thank you!
What is the ceramic adhesive used in assembling the capsule in MR16 reflectors ?
Absolutely fantastic video 😎
I've never had much luck with hid
they look bright
until you start driving 🤣
I'll stick with my Phillips led
VERY good video !! very helpful for DIYers deciding on headlight upgrades - 2 thumbs up !!
Without a doubt the best review of a product I have ever seen. Puts consumer reports to shame.
GREAT JOB! The testing is very thorough, simple and clear. Kudos for that! However, as mentioned, it would have been better specifying what kind of chip the LED kit had. That HID was blueish, probably a 8000k colour temp. You didn't mention if it was a 35 or 55w ballast, nor the brand. No way a HID bulb has less brightness than halogen. As I perceive this test, it seems it wants us to believe LED illuminates better than HID. LED is not right there yet with a decent HID kit. Projectors don't suit LED bulbs, so I conclude something really strange happened there.
Thanks for your comment and great suggestions, yes , we will take more consideration for coming videos and make improvement to try our best to make the video more clear, thanks again for your time to watch and amazing suggestions.
There was nothing strange, he skewed the results on purpose because he sells LEDs.
Yea, you’re exactly right. 8000k hids are stupid and hardly anyone runs them. People who want quality light run 4300-5000k and that would be something worth comparing to. LEDs are garbage for headlights and I’m sticking to that until they outdo 4300k hids for actual driving vision, not looks or foreground brightness which ruins actual down-road vision. Don’t care if they save 8 watts, we have plenty of alternator in our cars to support 84 watts worth of headlights.
Thanks for your detail information which will clear the vison that which bulb can we select in our car.... thank dude.
Thanks very much for your feedback, we are glad that is helpful for you
Thanks for your time to do this, alot of info.
Did you let the HID warm up and stabilize?
using a halogen reflector with an HID is not a fair comparison because of HIDs tendency to have severe hot spotting. The HID projectors like the D2S has an anamorphic effect that strethes the HID beam, giving it a wider footprint.
Hi. What is the Kelvin number for the pure white light?
About 6000K
very nice，professional test
Thanks very much for your feedback
Yea, agree about the 8k range chosen to compare with, and I wonder if that was intentional. That color range light makes me nauseous from the view from the car.
Leds are good ......until they meet snow......the lense then collects snow as it is not warm enough to melt the snow and keep clear
U shud get the all weather LED and not the white one instead if ur problem is snow
@@zeroeightization Do all weather LEDs melt snow off the headlight lens?
@勇気きみこ Snow can accumulate on the car during driving too.
I have a 2015 AUdi Q5 with HID 35w bixenon headlights. Dealer does not recommend 55w as they will burn the plastic housing. What do you recommend to improve visibility ??? particular brand ??
Thanks for your comment,in fact, if you choose to upgrade to LED headlights bulbs, the working power can't reach to 55W, currently the most powerful one is about 45W, yet when the led headlight bulb heat dissipation part not touch the vehicle's plastic part, then it will be safe, no burn. Yet for your car, extra load resistors maybe required to avoid the malfunction or error code when you upgrade to led, if you need load resistors, please make sure the metal part of the load resistors attach to your vehicle's metal part, no touch any plastic or wiring for it will get hot while working
Leave it as it is, your OEM HIDs will always be better than whatever LED bulb you put in there.
I know they're trying to sell their product but telling someone with OEM HID headlights to put aftermarket LED bulbs is terrible advice - especially with a test as biased as this, 8000k HID bulbs are useless in terms of light output, even halogens are better.
(You also won't see that much of a difference by going 55w either and it's unlikely it would melt anything)
I can tell a lot of work went into this, great work.
What can i do for a 2006 DTS? The headlights both low and high beams are horrible and can't see much. Looking at the headlights, they appear very bright and white.
So what is the best brand for H7 55W Led ? Any Suggestions?
For H7, we recommend allalighting.com/shop/product/FL-BH-12500lm-H7-LED-Headlight-Fog-Lights-Bulbs-for-Cars-Trucks/5889
Cars that are designed to use LEDs will often have multiple LEDs though. LEDs can be smaller. My car has 5 LED bulbs and a strip per headlight. And another strip for the turn signals.
Wow, you car must be attractive
@@AllaLighting it's the Acura "jewel eye" headlights. Personally I just think they look ok
i still have to pick hid, a 55w 4500k cuz all the good led lights dont fit cuz the fan gets in the way
Man this is a thorough test.
HID's seems very specific in where the light is, all other areas are way more dark. LED's appear the strongest, but since they are 7000k it's actually soft color, so you loose visibility. Pretty sure those halogens are super cheap ones, but even then they outperformed the HID's. Though I think for best results you should be looking at 4700k halogens and HID ones. Unfortunately its hard to find 4000-5000k LED's, they are usually over 7000k , therefore they have to be stronger, but they also reduce visibility of incoming drivers. So overall I'd say LED's are a bad choice as they tend to blind oncoming drivers the most and they have a very soft 7000k color.
This was a brilliant effort! well done mate! thank you
Thanks very much for your feedback, we are glad that you like it
Hi there I have a 2015 Honda accord Question on the market right now what is the best led that you recomend,.. thanks for your time
Thanks for your message, are you looking for high beam or low beam headlight? Recommended low beam headlight bulb is allalighting.com/shop/product/FL-BH-12500lm-H8-H9-H11-LED-Headlight-Bulbs-for-Cars-Trucks-%7C-1-Pair/5018; high beam headlight bulb link is allalighting.com/shop/product/FL-BH-12500lm-HB3-9005-LED-Headlight-Bulbs-for-Cars-Trucks-%7C-1-Pair/5020
Very cool, I got them LEDs for a small project I'm making, but I would think they are going to be to bright? I would have to learn how to lower the lux
Great video much appreciated, exactly the info and supporting information I was looking for.
Cool, thanks for your feedback, we are glad that you like it
When you compare a very expensive led kit to the cheapest hid kit your gonna choose the led. If you had an equal quality hid kit with a 5000k temp rating it would easily out perform these led an halogen. Don't be fooled
It is good brand of HID, it is Xtremevision H11 XV-HID
@@AllaLighting extreme vision is a 30 dollar hid kit. That's a cheap garbage kit especially in 8000 Kelvin color temperature. You can tell they're junk because the color doesnt match between the 2 hid bulbs.
@@Spyder_tsi agreed.. based on my experience from 2008, a crappy hid kit (sometime it came with cheap price) will give a different color no matter what the specification (3000-12000K, 35-55w, etc), and it happen on this vids..
Very true , i bought 6000k Led kit and Hid Kit both of them was not good at far distance , so i got my stock halogen Philips back to my car that worked great on far distance. Some months after i saw a friend using a 5000K hid kit and it was great shooting far away like my Halogen , So Hid 5000K was great for close and far distance . Your comment must be fist up so everyone can see it and learn.
Mpamphs Kangourosaurous try fitting halogens - Osram Nightbreaker Laser - they are amazing.
The effort that got into making this video.. wow.. bravo...
Thanks
My car default bulb was Halogen Philips 3700K . I bought a HID kit 6000K it was very bright but no so good in far distances, so i bought a LED kit and again to bright up close but not good at all at far distance and highway . So back to my stock Philips Halogen.
Thanks for your comment, yes, different brands and different versions of led headlight bulbs will perform quite big different, it is recommended to choose the reliable brand which will be better for performance and customer support.
Great video highly recommended
I have projectors. Looking at some different lighting ideas
Very detailed. Excellent comparison.
thanks.
Try to use 55w ac ballast and 5000k bulb on HID. 8000k HID is not good for performance comparison.
Great idea, we will consider it and post it in the future and thanks again for your watching and comment.
35 watt ballast has proven to be brighter and richer color constance. 55 watt is actually detrimental to the performance. Especially in places that are cold. The ballot will burn out much quicker.
@@Twitch_Moderator try to watch headlight revolution. Thanks
At the head to head table, (minute 9:20): The Halogen output starts at 176 lx (7 feet), but increases to 255 lx (at 25 feet at wall)? HID output starts at 227 lx (at 7 feet), but increases to 295 lx (at 33 feet)? How can light gain power? There's something wrong there.
Would it be more accurate if you average across 3 points for each distance (one at center of each headlight, and one at center of vehicle)?
Best test ever
whats best for projectors led or hid?
The best light output will come from a projector that's designed to be used with an HID bulb. There are a couple of projectors out there that have a built-in, non-replaceable LED that are pretty damn nice but, they still aren't as good as HID. And none of the drop in LED bulbs for projectors are very impressive. Lookup Headlight Revolution, Light Werkz, Morimoto and The Retrofit Source here on TH-cam. Tons of great info
@@Eric2300jeep i have a spec d veloster headlight what u think is better for that
Power consumption was per bulb or per pair?
Great video ,you explained everything 🙏🏻
Thanks very much for your feedback
Have been tested using LED, Halogen and also HID. I choose HID for natural bright and also cost.
Which hid and led bulb were used ?
Whats does a 2015 dodge charger rt plus use☹️
For your vehicle, some type of bulb is not able to adjust, so please check the seller to see it is adjustable or not.
Dont the led get to hot on the socket? I cant even touch them woried might melt my housing where it twists to the headlight
Algert Corbaxhi cheap LED lights get hot. Good quality ones don’t
What exactly LED bulbs are in the test? Exact model/link? Thanks for info.
The LED headlight bulb link is allalighting.com/shop/product/D-CR-9000lm-H11-LED-Headlight-Bulbs-for-Cars-Trucks-Motorcycles-%7C-1-Pair/967
Nice video. Very informative. Thank you
What brand/make for each bulb? Quality varies by manufacturer.
looks like the headlight housing is not designed for HID or LED. The halogen bulbs looked fine plus they probably, wouldn't glare into oncoming traffic like the LEDS will. The design of the headlight it self should have been taken into consideration!
He has projector headlights, HID & LED we’re designed for projectors. Hence why you can see a clean cut off. While the halogen work better than I expected, he is using the correct housing and lights just the same as a new car from the assembly line. This is the industry is now. Like it or not.
Is HID another acronym for Xenon?
Keep up the good work! I'm looking forward for the comparison with a HID/Xenon with like 4300K or 5000K.
Thanks for your comment, yes, great idea, we will have more comparison video to be posted, and thanks again for your time to watch and suggestion.
Alla Lighting Automotive LED Bulbs yup go more Factory OEM color 8K is a bad testing bulb
4300k are probably the most versatile, best visibility in dark, rain, snow
All the bulb you tested, in the same prices?
You've shown me 1 thing...I want some LEDs lights!
Me too
what you drive?
@@purpscurp5534 1997 Lincoln executive town car
From experience if you have reflector housings do LED I’f you have projector do HID I promise led in projector housings suck
What brand of HID kit were used for this test? Why not test 5,000k or 6,000k hid color?
Cheap HIDs are not precise on bulb alignment...
Results may be much better for a high quality HID kit...
Excellent test video anyway...
Subscribed just because of respect. Love the amount of work done in the video.
Thanks very much.
Everything's fine. Hid are more suitable to be a headlight drawing peak lumens at 33 feet or 10 mts. But beyond that distance it fades out. Another biggest issue would be it would be hot like hell which would degrade the housing over time.
So led is the winner for me.
Best information on headlight bulbs. Just used this to show my co worker LED's are the new hotness now. LED's have come a long way. Killed it with vid broski!
No, LED's are still not as good as HID. The information in this video has been setup to benefit the LED bulbs and is not correct.
Nice and informative video
Liked your efforts.
LED is better of all lights
Navi Mumbaikar Abhishek not really... HID still better, but only in 4300k or 5000k
@@bastardocongloria7392 TRY YUFANYA LED HEADLIGHT BULBS
What's the best housings to use with LEDs to not get light scatter ?
projector-lens headlight housing.
There isn't one for drop in LED bulbs unfortunately. You have to go with a projector that has a permanently mounted LED, like the one Morimoto offers
Please tell me which led light will be adequate to work in street , from light point to 150 meter/500 foot for distance ?
Hi, I want to replace my stock halogen low beam in a 2016 titanium Ford Fusion. It has projector from factory. Do think led is the best option with stock projector? Which brands do you recommend?
@Jonathan Hi, what type of led did you try? Cree, cob, csp? I've ordered a pair of H11 with csp technology. It's supposed to emit the source of light as halogen bulb does. I hope it work fine
What kind of LED it was ? Philips?
the LED bulbs are from us: allalighting.com/
What make & model is that light meter?