so visionx sent me a big box full of some lights

[Westside Offroad Group]

Thanks for the responses, I'm not familiar with lighting and am trying to pick up a thing or two. What is the external ballast that you're talking about? So you could see the heat of an HID as a plus in cold weather and the lack of heat in an LED as a plus in warmer weather.

I guess vision x has switched their high end lights to internal ballasts and STARTERS, so not too much of a concern anymore.

When I drawing the new light set up, I saw that people in colder climates were having trouble with light cannons getting buried in snow because the LED lights wouldn't get warm enough to melt it off of them. I don't care about running my lights in the snow so I didn't care about that con.

 

[RLTW]

Is the light output comparable? if so it seems like the major difference is heat and price, in which case why pay more for HID.

 

[Huck]

I want to say the HID's were cheaper. the 6.7" canons are ~ $800 a set.

 

[BramageDained]

Other then that your 6 of one half dozen of the other. LEDs are more expensive. The lack of heat is a plus and a curse in snowy / cold weather conditions.


They each have their place. LEDs also have no ballasts to mount and locate.


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10W LEDs anyway throw out enough light/heat to de-ice themselves.

Mine do anyway.

 

[RLTW]

From what i saw on the site huck, the led light cannons are 429 for 1 and like 800 for 2, where as the HID are 539 for 1 and they don't offer a pair.

 

[AlternativeOffroad]

From what i saw on the site huck, the led light cannons are 429 for 1 and like 800 for 2, where as the HID are 539 for 1 and they don't offer a pair.

Yeah the Light Cannons are sold in pairs usually, because they'll give you a wiring harness meant for both lights, when you order a cannon individually you won't get a harness

 

[Westside Offroad Group]

6.7" 50W VisionX 6550 HID beam patterns
$399 MSRP each


6.7" 50W Light Cannon LED beam patterns
$429 each / $849 kit of two MSRP
$30 interchangable covers to do euro/flood/spot in different colors available

VisionX also makes 8.7" HIDs which are obviously brighter, but **** putting 5 of those on my roof, I think they look too big. Just for fun, here's the beam patterns for their big kahuna, the 8550XP, MSRP $539:

 

[Goofball]

Damn lights are spendy eh?

 

[Huck]

nothing about a raptor is cheap.