DarkSouljur

Okay so i'm doing my morimoto mini retrofit ... i was planning on getting it done this weekend, but i ordered a pair of CCFL halo's to go with them, and something happened and one of the halos snapped... sucks, i know.

I was going to order another pair of CCFL halo's from TRS then i was reading a post somewhere on bimmer forum about CCFL vs. LED's. And now i don't know which is better.

The arguments against CCFL is that the inverters tend to burn out or catch fire. And they turn yellowish after a while, also they don't work well on cold starts etc. etc.

So now i'm wondering which you guys think i should order, CCFL or LED angel eyes.

Riceboy? lol

gearbox

iTrader: (95)

leds have their negatives too. aside from usually poor quality leds, its too close to the hid projector and will fail from heat. and they are ugly and usually not very bright. leds and ccfl are very tricky and if you do use leds, they should be far away from the lo and hi beams. most of the leds and ccfls available are very low quality to begin with. so i would suggest getting quality leds and wiring yourself or check some of the better premade led strips and products at radiantz.com or customdynamics.com which most people think are too expensive.

DarkSouljur

People are arguing that the CCFL's weren't bright and that LEDs were a lot brighter, which is what i thought too.

I didn't even know where to find anything on custom dynamics, but on radiantz i found this:

http://radiantz.com/index1.html?search.html&1

It looks pretty bad, but $12 is a good price i dunno why u said they were expensive lol.

The CCFL's i'd be getting would be morimoto, which i figured made good quality stuff. Doing it myself i think would be too much hassle :P

sl33pyriceboi

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led is generally better but it depends on which led halo kit you get. some of them only use 2 leds to power up a while ring and some of them actually use many leds to power up the whole ring.

DarkSouljur

Well do you think you could link me to a good one?

If i can't find anything i'll just endup ordering another pair of morimoto CCFL's, but i don't know where i'd put the inverter, and this talk of it catching fire is worrying me. What are the odds of that happening...

DarkSouljur

Bump??

gearbox

iTrader: (95)

umnitza led rings are prolly the best bet. it has a plastic diffuser over the leds too so they arent as visible when turned off. check around ebay cause there are many sizes and colors

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/BMW-E...Q5fAccessories

Shift-E

HOLY ****! Thats expensive!

DarkSouljur

Oh god. Yeah i was looking at ORION V2's the other day, or umnitza's as u called them. I'm definately not planning on spending that much money on halo's. I just want halos that don't look ugly and don't cost a small fortune lol.

Unless you guys have a different suggestion i guess i'll just stick to the $30 CCFL rings from TRS, at least i'll have decent looking halo's and at $30, they'll last me over a year for sure so for the price of those orion V2's i could buy 8 years worth of TRS CCFL's lol i'm not planning on keeping my civic for another 8 years.

xRiCeBoYx

iTrader: (22)

Just to be on the CCFL side of the argument.. I've had my CCFL angel eyes since last April. They're still bright, and my headlights haven't caught fire yet.. AND, last summer was hotter than *****.. I think I remember complaining of >115 degree weather here in Vegas..

DarkSouljur

FINALLY HE SPEAKS.

You're the one person i know who has these CCFL's and i needed input lol.

But see it's not so much the heat i'm worried about, it's the cold. Where i live we have a huge temp difference.

Summers can go to 40 Celsius (104F), and winters can go to -40 Celsius. (-40F) even though our winters tend to stay around -25 to -30

xRiCeBoYx

iTrader: (22)

Lol. Sorry. Busy weekend.

Anyways, I had blue CCFL angel eyes when I lived in upstate New York from November 2004 to May 2005, also with no noticeable problems..

DarkSouljur

Thats good, but did they die on you or did u just take them out?

Also confused about where i should put my inverter...?

xRiCeBoYx

iTrader: (22)

I have the inverters mounted inside my headlight assembly.. lol..

and I took out the blue ones because navy base police didn't like them when I moved to western washington state. I had got the white ones, but never found the time to put 'em in until I got out of the military.

DarkSouljur

Nice, i'm excited now What'd u do to mount?

Do you have any pics of them on when you're infront of the car? (i've seen the one pic you have on your lights thread but it doesn't look very bright).

xRiCeBoYx

iTrader: (22)

They don't look that bright because I turned the exposure WAAAYYY the hell down so I can show the actual ring, and not just the light being emitted from the ccfl. I went out and took some shots just now.




here's JUST my parking lights (to which I have the angel eyes tapped into), with a 1/20 second shutter speed


and just to prove my headlights weren't on, here's a shot with my headlights on, same shutter speed (1/20 second)

iSharix

Look at all that rice, you can feed China with it !

Jokes Joshhh

xRiCeBoYx

iTrader: (22)

Psh.. Stop being a troll or I won't finish your essay, Shari :P

hahaha

iSharix

You know....I can just call you like right now...but you won't be happy when you hear me crying..

Shift-E

How did you mount them? I hear a lot of people use like fishing wire on the Mh1's

DarkSouljur

Thats looks really nice man! I'm going to have gatling gun projectors, TRS told me to use fishing wire to hold it in place, i was thinking put a dab of silicone so it's held there then i could tie it with fishing wire after just for extra projection incase the silicone can't handle the heat of the ccfls

xRiCeBoYx

iTrader: (22)

Mine are being held with 3M double sided tape

sl33pyriceboi

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holy batman glare. lol


i sense some homo action here.

xRiCeBoYx

iTrader: (22)

nah, not glare.. not a quick enough shutter speed to catch the light. I used a slower shutter speed to show the difference between just the parking lights and with my HIDs on

Shift-E

That's surprising. I wonder how well you can conceal double sided tape on gatling gun shrouds....

xRiCeBoYx

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You can't even tell mine are being held on by 3m double sided tape. I cut the strips thin enough so, unless you're looking for them, you can't see it, but still holds. It's been through Vegas summer and the snow we got, and it's still held up fine

xRiCeBoYx

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Lol, how is it homo action if she's a girl?

Shift-E

That's pretty damn impressive! So easy and effective!

xRiCeBoYx

iTrader: (22)

Here's what it looks like if you're looking for it. I used 3 pieces per CCFL ring, placed approximately 120 degrees apart. Don't mind the shitty condition of the headlight itself.. lol

sdaidoji

iTrader: (1)

Maybe sl33py was not reffering to her? :P jk! jk!