Kee Hinckley on Nostr: Today I discovered that on my Subaru the driving lights and the high beam lights are ...
Today I discovered that on my Subaru the driving lights and the high beam lights are the same lights, just at different voltages.
Which explains why someone flashed their highbeams at me in the *daytime* after I replaced them with LEDs.
Also, all those knock-off Amazon headlight vendors who say, “Compatible with 2015 Subaru Forester” can go jump in a lake. I did, once I figured this out, go back and find one vendor who said that theirs would only have the brightness of the driving light. The comments were, of course, complaining it was too dim.
Fortunately I kept the originals.
P.S. If you think that replacing your old car bulbs with LEDs will save you power, I have bad news. I mean, I love the fact that my brake and turning signals are extremely visible in daylight, fog, snow, and rain. And my low beams are awesomely better. But it turns out cars now detect burnt-out bulbs, and they do this by monitoring the resistance, and LED bulbs have so little that your car thinks the bulbs are burnt-out. So when you buy replacement LED bulbs, they come with a separate box that has a resistor on it so they still use the expected power.
Which explains why someone flashed their highbeams at me in the *daytime* after I replaced them with LEDs.
Also, all those knock-off Amazon headlight vendors who say, “Compatible with 2015 Subaru Forester” can go jump in a lake. I did, once I figured this out, go back and find one vendor who said that theirs would only have the brightness of the driving light. The comments were, of course, complaining it was too dim.
Fortunately I kept the originals.
P.S. If you think that replacing your old car bulbs with LEDs will save you power, I have bad news. I mean, I love the fact that my brake and turning signals are extremely visible in daylight, fog, snow, and rain. And my low beams are awesomely better. But it turns out cars now detect burnt-out bulbs, and they do this by monitoring the resistance, and LED bulbs have so little that your car thinks the bulbs are burnt-out. So when you buy replacement LED bulbs, they come with a separate box that has a resistor on it so they still use the expected power.