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Here's that mountaineer cluster I've been playing with, native blue, with the 20 SMD LED's. Still a dull spot around 40MPH, keegans strip light looks much cleaner. This isn't bad for stock-
That dull spot is the reason I swapled in LED strips.
These optics are more complex than you would guess at first. There are special compiter programs that some poor soul spent good years of his or her life to get right. The bulbs have to be positioned a certain way to get that light output perfect (ever notice how on all cars the bulb filaments are always perpendicular to the ground?) And the gauge backing have varying thicknesses of tint so that the light flow is even.
The stock bulbs were a pain for Ford's supplier to get perfect, and with LEDs you are storming in yelling F*** THE SYSTEM and putting bulbs that have a very different range than what the optics were designed for in. This (hopefully obviously at this point) new bulb has crazy different light outputs at different angles, and putting it into a perfectly designed optic for a different type of bulb will never light everything up as well or evenly as the bulb that was chosen by the person who gave years of their life away and knew very well what they were doing.
And that is also why I am against anything but the stock bulbs (HID or LED, or others) in our light housings. Or any others in that case.
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