Ken,
Yes, I am learning a lot and appreciate everyone a this forum. Incandescent
50 watt 12 volt under your vent hood or in your standard sized fixture
consumes 50 watts. That a lot. The same thing but in a 60 watt equivalent
spiral compact fluorescent (CF) consumes 13 watts and that is why it is
called a CF 13 watt spiral. You get more light, and consume almost 4 times
less battery drain which equates to much longer time. A Thin Light dual tube
typically consumes about 1.5 to 2.5 watts, depending on which of the
available brightness of tube type you choose. That is almost 33 times less
battery drain. An LED light with 43 LED's in a super flux will require less
than 1/4 of one watt, a drain on the battery at the least of 200 times less.
The lesser intensity LED's such as not as bright, or in colors of typical
red and amber drain at a rate of at least 1000 times less than that single
50 watt incandescent bulb.
LED in white requires two colors, blue and brown, to make the white. You
cannot use a white led in a colored lenses. The color of the lenses will
change the light produced. You cannot use a red in a yellow or yellow in a
red. Same thing happens with the color spectrum.
In your vehicle, the alternator must run everything electrical, and
replenish the battery. All this matters if your like me, need to keep that
95 going, don't want to replace and service things like the alternator.
All light, except fiber optic, make heat. Less heat equates to longer life
on lenses, or longer use since some of the incandescent 1156, 1157, 194, and
9mm bulbs will simply yellow, deform, melt, or even burn thru your lenses
cover. Heat high to low is incandescent, spiral, U tube, tube, LED, and
fiber optic.
LED is forward projecting only. You cannot simply replace a tail light or
marker light with an LED and expect it to work. One LED, properly projected,
and designed, exceeds the light and the DOT requirements of one 194 (glass
spaded peanut) or 9mm (brass bayonet clearance bulb) incandescent bulb, but
this is only in red and amber. White is substantially a different LED topic
and evolution still in infancy. The 1156, a single contact brass bayonet
incandescent bulb is 15 mm. So too is the 1157, a double contact, double
intensity usually found in tail lights and some front park lights on your
vehicle.
-Eddie-
Houston, TX