I've been spending entirely too much time and money building and testing a variety of LED bulbs for interior lights!
Hopefully my experiments will give some of you a better idea of how some of the different LED's perform.
I should say that a major goal of ours was to make the lights as bright or brighter than the original bulbs.
I intend to post each bulb as a separate message in order to make the project managable.
The first bulb I'll document was constructed by combining 4 "Array LED G4 bulbs"
Array Lighting | Array LED G4
The results are shown in the following pictures. I'm including exposure information for the photographs because it will allow us to compare different bulbs.
The first picture shows the combination of 4 array lights mounted on
perforated circuit board from radio shack. The red wires are only standoffs which hold the bulbs away from the diffuser. The 1156 bulb base can be purchased from:
High Powered LEDs
The second picture was taken at:
exposure 1/1500 sec.
aperture F8
"film speed" ISO 80 on my camera.
To the eye, the light is extremely bright and has a nice warm white color.
The camera settings tone it down considerably to allow direct comparisons between bulbs.
The third picture was taken at:
exposure 1/160 sec.
aperture F8
ISO 80
Here the diffuser from Airstream light fixture has been placed over bulb.
The bulb is running at 12V 0.33A or 4W
It replaces the standard 1156 bulb which uses 21W.
In my next message I'll show pictures for the original bulb.
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