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Old 05-12-08 | 10:17 PM
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Originally Posted by n4zou
I hate to say this but that bulb will produce less light than the filament bulb you would be replacing it with due to the change in pattern with the original reflector. The beam will be excessively wide wasting most of the light where you don't need it. The only advantage with the LED replacement bulbs are long life and extended run time with batteries. Granted, there are advantages to long run times and a bulb that lasts 50,000 hours but they simply will not produce enough usable light with reflectors designed to be used with filament bulbs to actually see where your going. The Cree XR-E Q5 high power emitter produces 228 lumen coupled with a good optic designed for that emitter will produce more light than an MR-16 20-watt halogen bulb and only consume 3 watts.
At nominal voltage...maybe. The MR-16 puts out 800 lumens at 12 V...which is a bucket load. That's gonna have to be soooome optics

I agree with everything else, however.
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