Halogen -VS- LED Headlights with pictures

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  1. Tideland Prius

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    Indeed! Although I think a dual bulb setup up (as opposed to the single bulb, dual filament of the Gen 2) helps too, esp. with high beams since you don't lose lighting in the near region.
     
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    I've always thought single bulb dual filaments must tend to make crazy heat when both filaments are fired up...... usually taking out the low beam element since its used the most and therefore most fragile to burning into when high beam is activated.
     
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    Good point. I guess they figure that it isn't used very often. It's rated at 55/60W so I imagine if both are on, it's 115W of power drawn into that area. That's a lotta heat.
     
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    is there any way to get the OP's original shots hosted somewhere else?
     
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    I am a 69 year old retired truck driver with three and a half million safe miles. I also have a 2010 Prius and a 2012 Camry both of the headlights in these cars are excellent you can see very well at night if you need to see better than that slow down! Have you ever had an LED Prius or Corolla come at you at night you are blinded those lights are so bright that you cannot see for a couple instances until they pass! Of course the LED car can see down the road quite a bit but they never think about blinding the oncoming traffic on a two-lane road I think that is more dangerous then the old sealed beam headlights.
     
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    A dang sight more expensive than the old sealed beams too.
     
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    And those are DRLs in Canada so all Corollas have their headlights on all the time.

    A Gen 2 Prius halogen will give the old sealed beams a run for their money. (and that's saying something. The Gen 2's headlights were adequate at best. At the time, we had a Gen 5 Camry with separate low/high beams vs. the Gen 2's dual filament setup. The Camry's headlights were much better).
     
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