Anyone Upgraded to LED Headlights for the First Gens?

[85_Ranger4x4]

I have spent all day working on a tech article discussing the different ways to add LED headlights, and what I quickly realized is that all of these companies are full of crap when they list the lumen ratings for their LED bulbs. The only company that I have found that rates their lights truthfully is LASFIT.

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For an LED, Lumens = Watts × Luminous Efficacy (lm/W)

Standard LED: ~80–100 lm/W (Example: 50W x 100lm/W = 5,000 Lumens)
High-Efficiency LED: 110–150+ lm/W (Example: 50W x 150lm/W = 7,500 Lumens)

In the ad below, it's not possible for a 40W light (or dual 40W lights) to put out 46,000 Lumens. You'd need 460 watts to put out 46,000 Lumens. Even a really highly efficient LED would still require 306 Watts. Two 153-watt High-Efficiency LED's might do it.

I saw ratings for 9004 LED bulbs that ranged from 30,000 Lumens to 70,000 Lumens.

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When I did mine a couple years ago people were still rocking candlepower ratings too, that may have been me cross shopping vs halogens at the time. It was really annoying trying to compare things.

That seems to be the case with a lot of things. I run R/C crawlers, and you have to look past the hardcore brand-loyal individuals, paid ads, and marketing documentation. You start to see that, while a lot of companies claim to have an edge, really they're just repackaging batteries, or buying from the same suppliers. All their C rating claims are false, with one or two outliers.

When looking at aftermarket stuff you have to sit back and think "this company isn't big enough to actually make this part themselves"