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Old 07-09-2025, 03:46 PM
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My LED headlite saga....I currently have the same issues. I bought the Lightening Dark 14000 LM H4 bulbs a while back, they have 3 pins but the description says Fog Lite. I am using them for the Low Beam, but the light pattern is not anything like a H4 Halogen. Looks weird like it could be for a fog lite.

I am getting some other brand H4 which the description states is for low/hi Beam. Let's see what this does.

I also converted my Allante to LED... that was annoying. Supposed to fit my car.....not so much...the back side is a finned aluminum heat sink and my car has a metal lock ring that locks the bulb in place, but the ears on the ring used with fingers to rotate it in place rubs on the larger aluminum housing. Had to grind way some of the housing for clearance. Also, they initially didn't work, triggers the computer headlite fault... called the supplier and then they say you need the resistor harness....surprise! The resistor harness is 2 high power 6 ohm resistors, one for each hi and lo beam (which draws an additional 2 amps per beam) to fool the computer that the old standard bulbs are in place. A waste of power here .. so the LED system draws more total power, saving you very little, and you have to mount this stuff somewhere.

As a test, I changed the resistors to 12 ohms (12 watts wasted instead of 24) and still fools the computer. Some day I may try 24 ohm but it's messy to do.
If I would have known it was this messy, I would not have bothered. That's what happens with oddball cars, I guess.

YMMV, George

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