AIB Angel eyes V3.0 arrivedd today
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Originally Posted by Owen530i' post='440775' date='Jun 28 2007, 05:21 AM
CustomAngelEyes/Umnitza:
Not to play devil's advocate, but could you measure the light intensity emitted by the angel eyes themselves outside the car?
I have replaced the Predator Ice V1 with a LED & driver with a Luxeon 5.8W (130 lm) LED and a 1,000 mA driver. All that changed is the color and there is no appreciable difference in brightness, especially in daylight. This leads to me to believe that increasing the brightness of the LED is not linearly proportional to the increasing the brightness of the angel eyes. Hence, advertising that a new product (LED) is "2x/3x/5x+ brighter" may be true, but is misleading. A multiple of the brightness compared to V1, measured from the outside of the headlights when the angel eyes are on, may provide a more relevant figure.
I do not believe (although I would like to be proved wrong) that simply increasing brightness of the LED would make the angel eyes have any sort of appreciable difference (as compared to the E36/E46 angel eyes), especially in daylight, due to the way the E60 headlights are designed.
For now I'll stick with the AngelIBright and Predator ICE V1's.
Thanks for reading,
Owen530i
Not to play devil's advocate, but could you measure the light intensity emitted by the angel eyes themselves outside the car?
I have replaced the Predator Ice V1 with a LED & driver with a Luxeon 5.8W (130 lm) LED and a 1,000 mA driver. All that changed is the color and there is no appreciable difference in brightness, especially in daylight. This leads to me to believe that increasing the brightness of the LED is not linearly proportional to the increasing the brightness of the angel eyes. Hence, advertising that a new product (LED) is "2x/3x/5x+ brighter" may be true, but is misleading. A multiple of the brightness compared to V1, measured from the outside of the headlights when the angel eyes are on, may provide a more relevant figure.
I do not believe (although I would like to be proved wrong) that simply increasing brightness of the LED would make the angel eyes have any sort of appreciable difference (as compared to the E36/E46 angel eyes), especially in daylight, due to the way the E60 headlights are designed.
For now I'll stick with the AngelIBright and Predator ICE V1's.
Thanks for reading,
Owen530i
I have it posted here:
http://www.m5board.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=92310
We did this in an ISO9001 certified lighting lab.
You are 100% correct on what you did, but we have a proprietary way of increasing our brightness, what you increased (as a hint) does not directly affect the brightness produced.
To RJC,
You say this on a Photo of V1 compared to the others.
V2 isn't even out yet, and that made you spend the extra money? Huh? I'm missing something here, please help me.
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rjcastr is just commenting on the impromptu line the Bay Area e60 folks did a few weeks back between AIB v2, AIB v2, and ICE v1.
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Originally Posted by alpinewhite' post='440725' date='Jun 27 2007, 10:49 PM
hm... im interested. my ICE V! has been acting up as of lately, maybe cuz the wires are loose. Maybe when summer school is done, ill drive to your shop and see.
I take it back, didnt know Concord was in Norcal
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Originally Posted by vegastrashed' post='440852' date='Jun 28 2007, 08:17 AM
I'm looking forward to seeing a consumer side-by-side comparison between AIB v3 and ICE v2.
ok well here they are, my new V3's dont they look waaay brighter than V2 and now way the Predetor can match these
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Originally Posted by JetBlack' post='440879' date='Jun 28 2007, 11:09 AM
ok well here they are, my new V3's dont they look waaay brighter than V2 and now way the Predetor can match these
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Originally Posted by umnitza' post='440885' date='Jun 28 2007, 09:20 AM
those must be the new nuclear V4 that no one knows about yet.
Shhhhh!!! Nobody will buy them if they find out where I get nuclear power!!
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umnitza -
ro11dice is willing to provide his E60 5er car for testing V2 and DRL harness thing.. Pls check with him on here: http://forums.e60.net/index.php?showtopic=...view=getnewpost Thanks!
ro11dice is willing to provide his E60 5er car for testing V2 and DRL harness thing.. Pls check with him on here: http://forums.e60.net/index.php?showtopic=...view=getnewpost Thanks!
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OMG! I want one!! I want one!! Those sure are purrdy shinny lights!!! 
Originally Posted by JetBlack' post='440879' date='Jun 28 2007, 09:09 AM
ok well here they are, my new V3's dont they look waaay brighter than V2 and now way the Predetor can match these