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      06-10-2015, 07:54 PM   #23
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Well that was an utter failure so far. I removed the halogen fog light bulb, and wired up the LED lights with its transformer. I tested the light bulb before I inserted in the hole, and the light turned on fine.

I then tried inserting it into the hole, and got caught up on the sides of the wider led bulb in the hole (the halogen bulb is much thinner). Then after twirling/pressing/working it as hard as I could I happen to pick up the transformer to move it, and practically burned the top layer of finger off as it was like 500°C (exaggeration - but really friggin hot).

At that point I removed the LED and returned the halogen bulb.

Any thoughts here? Or do I have to attempt a return to China?

I was pretty sure I had the orientation of all the wires in the correct direction, and assumed they wouldn't illuminate if they were wrong, but could this instead cause a super hot transformer?

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      06-11-2015, 11:09 AM   #24
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Anyone have similar issues? I have the older bumper style with fogs, so perhaps it's a more unique issue?
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I would say brand might be an issue. The ballasts on my headlights run hot but not hot enough where I can't pick up.

Might be a bit overkill but an HID kit would work. I have a set for my main and thinking of upgrading my fogs too. Great warranty and top of the line (not cheap plastic and doesn't overheat).

http://www.theretrofitsource.com/hid...l#.VXuAO1L3bCQ
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Thanks Satelite. Do you have the same bumper/fog combination I have?

There are two issues I didn't realize I had with these fogs:

1) the bulb space is very narrow (those HIDs would work fine)

2) the bulb space is not deep either, and there is a little frosted grey deflector that hangs down in front of the bulb that stops direct "projector" type bulbs from projecting forward. Again HIDs would work well in this situation.
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So are the bulbs too long and don't fit? Or were you just not able to get them in? Theyre a bit fiddly and they only go in one way.

Also the connectors should only connect one way as well.

BTW, those aren't ballasts, they're just resistors to cancel the error and possible step down the voltage. But yes they do run really hot

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I couldn't get them in deep enough, as they were too thick. I could only get them 1cm or so deep. But had they slipped in, the projector style forward looking LEDs would have been blocked by the hanging diffusor in the fog light harness.

What came with the lights were 50 W 6Ohm Load Resistors. I'm told that a switching regulator is the way to go, but honestly, it gets too confusing with the added BMW canbus/flickering issue. I'm just going to send them back
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Well I'm sending the Fogs back, as they didn't fit.

But on a brighter note (see what I did there-ha) Angels arrived and look great. No errors so far. It's pretty weird that you just jam all the controllers/resisters etc in the housing though.
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Here's a pic. It's much brighter in the center Angels where the bulb is inserted. But that is to be expected.
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Reis, yours seem much brighter than mine. There is a lot of flickering when taking a photo with an iPhone, did you happen to get a brighter moment or are they very bright? Mine (white car) are 20watts (10W/light).
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So my OBD2 wifi dongle arrived yesterday, and had fun using the CarlyForBMW iOS app ($50) to change a bunch of the lighting/locking/instrument configurations.

I noticed there are a lot of options for:
- turning off the voltage monitoring for all the lights, and
- changing the voltage going to the lights

See this link:
http://support.mycarly.com/knowledge...t-is-possible/

Anyway - if I can change the way the OBC interacts with the lights can I buy LED lights without canbus ballasts specifically designed to work with BMWs?
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      06-26-2015, 07:37 AM   #33
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Note: I'm specifically talking about using LEDs for my fog lights. Can I use without canbus, if I turn off voltage monitoring etc.?
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Reis, yours seem much brighter than mine. There is a lot of flickering when taking a photo with an iPhone, did you happen to get a brighter moment or are they very bright? Mine (white car) are 20watts.
I think mine are 40 watts each. Plus i was fiddling with the footwell module's nettodat file to try and turn off the flickering and i had also increased the voltage to the angel eyes to 13.7V (somewhere around there, its more than 12V though)

Thats a really bad photo and it just got distorted, but yeah mine are really bright. It kind of looks like this http://www.1addicts.com/forums/showp...08&postcount=3
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Yeah. I bought 20W (10w/light) 6000k.

Now that I've had some time to see them in different lighting. I wish I had of bought:

- 5000k
- Either 32W (16/light) or 40W (20/light)

I find the 6000k light is too cool-almost getting blueish, compared to the Xenon headlights, which are warmer.
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Yes 6000K is definitely more on the blue side, but my xenons are 6000K as well so it matches quite well.

These are the angel eyes that i bought
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/80W-V2-Co...item3a87176843

they're a fair bit expensive, but if you haven't messed around with your footwell module in terms of voltages - its a good level of brightness on the DRL setting, and when you switch to parking light/dipped beam the brightness drops a little bit because you'd be using those settings at night.
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Wow 80W (40w/light) is a big difference.

Did you replace your Xenons with 6000k bulbs? Or did yours come with 6000s?

I'm pretty sure mine are 5000k, not sure why I think that though.
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Wow 80W (40w/light) is a big difference.

Did you replace your Xenons with 6000k bulbs? Or did yours come with 6000s?

I'm pretty sure mine are 5000k, not sure why I think that though.
Yes the stock color is definitely not 6000K, i actually retrofitted the xenons to my car so i had to go out and buy new bulbs.
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Makes sense, I like the greyed out cornering lights on those.

I'd like to replace mine with these OSS Raptors, but it seems they only retrofit lights already housing the eyebrow LED strip bit, and don't add them to those without.

So I guess that would mean buying a new OEM set, and paying for them to retrofit. Seems too much.
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