12W LED H11 Bulbs

Has anyone replaced their H11 Halogen builbs with LED H11 Bulbs? There is a company selling them on eBay for about $40 a pair:

2x 12W 4 OSRAM SMD LED Car Foglight Front Fog Head Driving DRL Light Lamp Bulb | eBay

After doing a little googling, I found that a 12W LED is equivalent to 100W Halogen. If this is truely the case, then these bulbs should perform better than the stock Halogens, and draw a lot less power.

I know that a lot of people are going to have a lot of opinions on this subject, but I'm not looking for opinions, but rather actual side by side comparisons done in the Prius headlight housings. I am not only looking for the difference in light output, but also stability (LED burnout, possible reflector burns, etc...). Please post pictures if you can.

Thank you,

- TP

 

So if that's true, then the claims that are made (like 12W LED = 100W Halgen) are false. Does anyone know of a accurate cross reference to compare LED to Halogen wattage?

- TP

 

You are correct. I thought about this later, after I had already posted this thread. You know, I've seen a lot of posts on LED driving lights, but haven't seen anything that broke it down in to lumens.

I've done a bit more searching. The LED bulbs (the brightest I could find) were 400-450 lumens. To give an idea just how dim that really is, halogen bulbs rate anywhere from 1350-2100 lumens. So even the cheapest of halogen bulbs puts out almost four times as much light. Then there is HID which put out 2800-3500 lumens on average, while only using 35W of power after start up.

So, based on this information, I would have to say that HID has a huge lead over LED. I have just ordered a couple of H11 kits to replace my high and low beams. I will be running 6000K on low beam and 3000K on high beam. This is the same setup I run on my motorcycles and the combination has always worked well for me.

- TP