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Originally Posted by mrhayes1
HIDs being better than LEDs in terms of light output? Not sure about that one. That definitely used to be true but I don't know about anymore. LEDs have come a long way.
I have the new Morimoto LED headlights and they are brighter than the base model FRS headlights equipped with 35w Morimoto 5000k HIDs.
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you're confusing 2 aspects of lighting.
there is the light source. there is also the optic assembly the light source utilizes.
hid offers more lumens than any current led sources can easily provide within the same assembly size. tossing an hid light source into any random housing designed for a halogen bulb is going to have very mixed results.
the led offering you're talking about was designed from the ground-up to be an led light source. the optical assembly is drastically different.
so while a custom-designed, complete led module could perform better than a random hid bulb in a housing it was never realistically intended to be placed into, that does not mean that all hid assemblies are worse than led assemblies.
if you start looking into dedicated hid projectors such as the murano, fx-r, or s2k for starters, you'll find that while the led assemblies are getting closer, they're just not there yet.