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8 Facts About LED Forward Lighting

Forward Lighting
  1. Truck-Lite LED Headlights offer a 40% wider beam pattern than halogen headlights.
    This is a significant improvement and allows drivers to detect road hazards that fall out of the typical beam pattern. These enhancements to the beam pattern meet the legal minimum requirements of the DOT, but do not exceed the maximum values allowed.
  2. LED headlights’ output is closer to the color of daylight.
    Standard halogen lamps produce a yellow light in the 2500-2800K range. LED headlights product light more similar in color to sunlight in the 5000-5200K range.
  3. Halogen headlights experience a 25% reduction in light after 160 hours. LED headlights experience a 7% reduction after 13,500 hours.
    Results based on high beam tests. Lumen depreciation is the rate at which a bulb’s output degrades over time. If the voltage supplied from the truck is greater than the bulb’s rated voltage, the lumen depreciation is accelerated, further shortening the bulb’s life. This condition is quite common, as the typical bulb’s rated voltage is 12.8 volts and most trucks run at 14.2 volts with a 100% battery charge.
  4. LED headlights last 30 times longer than halogen headlights.
    Longer life means less maintenance and better CSA scores. Halogen lights typically experience a lifespan of roughly 1,000 hours on low beam and 320 hours on high beam. LED lights typically experience 30,000 hours on low beam and 15,000 hours on high beam.
  5. LED headlights do not flicker. Halogen headlights do.
    Truck-Lite LED Headlights utilize a drive circuit that converts the system voltage. Conversely, with halogen technology, the bulb’s light output fluctuates based on changing input voltages.
  6. LED headlights require less maintenance than halogen headlights.
    With a longer life, better protection against hazing and yellowing, and no worry of bulb failure thanks to a solid-state design, LED headlights require much less maintenance than their halogen counterparts.
  7. Hazing and yellowing can cause a 60% reduction in performance of the key photometrics test points on a two-year-old light without a two-component hardcoat coating.
    Halogen headlights use a single component UV curable coating, which, although in compliance with the minimum federal standards, does not always offer adequate protection. Truck Lite recently tested a two-year-old halogen headlight to determine the effects of hazing on light output. After comparing the old light to a new light, the researchers found a 60% reduction in the performance of key photometric test points. Truck-Lite LED headlights are coated with a two-component silicone hardcoat coating that should protect the headlight for over 5 years.
  8. LED headlights use half the power draw of halogen headlights.