Led headlights

[Mp64]

I just installed a pair of led headlights on my VE SS off ebay and I noticed a tiny bit of smoke(?) being released into the headlight.

The lights are 72w, is the extra 17w an issue?

The lights have good reviews from what I can see:
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https://www.ebay.com.au/p/7024651492

 

[lmoengnr]

I just installed a pair of led headlights on my VE SS off ebay and I noticed a tiny bit of smoke(?) being released into the headlight.

The lights are 72w, is the extra 17w an issue?

The lights have good reviews from what I can see:
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https://www.ebay.com.au/p/7024651492

The eBay link is for H4 globes, did you get H7's?

 

[Mp64]

The eBay link is for H4 globes, did you get H7's?

Oops wrong link haha. Yeah deff got h7s

 

[Fu Manchu]

Smoke is never normal.
Unless you have a fire. Smoke is very normal for fire.

 

[Skylarking]

Led headlight globes are illegal....
Forget about the issue of blinding oncoming cars, if your car actually burns down, i wonder whether the insurance company would investigate the cause and what they'd say on the matter of illegal mod if they determined such were being used?

As to what casued the smoke, most likely your CAN bus thingamagigy is getting very hold and melting any plastic it's in contact with. Some of those CANbus LED globe adapters/error cancellers (resistors really?) need to be bolted to something large and metalic to act as a heat sink so as to keep them cool...

 

[Mp64]

Led headlight globes are illegal....
Forget about the issue of blinding oncoming cars, if your car actually burns down, i wonder whether the insurance company would investigate the cause and what they'd say on the matter of illegal mod if they determined such were being used?

As to what casued the smoke, most likely your CAN bus thingamagigy is getting very hold and melting any plastic it's in contact with. Some of those CANbus LED globe adapters/error cancellers (resistors really?) need to be bolted to something large and metalic to act as a heat sink so as to keep them cool...

Are they not legal if they are within the legal lumen range?

 

[lmoengnr]

Are they not legal if they are within the legal lumen range?

No, for Off Road Use Only, in accordance with ADR's...
Lots of people use them.

 

[Skylarking]

Are they not legal if they are within the legal lumen range?

Sadly it’s not that simple...

The headlamp assembly is certified to a certain standard along with the standard globes it‘s designed to use. Using another type of globe in a certified headlamp assembly means the assembly is no longer certified.

I have yet to see a LED globe that is certified for use in as a replacement to an incandescent globe regardless of the lumens output of the LED globe. I suspect even those high power incandescent white glacier bla bla bla globes are skirting on being illegal...

 

[siniSSterbloke]

LED's are not legal at all. regardless of brightness. They arent ADR compliant

 

[BrettP75]

In fairness though if you were ever pulled over you could argue that nowhere in NSW legislation does it state that led headlights are illegal. Under NSW roads and transport regulations part 7 lights and reflectors it mentions lights must be white and angled down as not to dazzle oncoming drivers