DIY LED car headlights!

Step 2 Exploration

I 'Explored' my vehicle to see were can I place the LEDs.

The attached photographs include their own explanations, but I do need to make caption on the drawing: the image editor doesn't seem to like adding comments to GIF images.
Anyway, from a top view, it explores how could I place LED modules made from either 5mm white LED's (the yellow cones) or 3mm white LED's (the blue, more concentrated cones). The 3mm ones emit a tad less light per unit than the others, but by being their emissions more focused, they have a better throwing distance.

By the way, before somebody asks, I am not using either blue or yellow LEDs.I'm using those colours in my drawing purely for graphic reference.

Schemes A, B C and D are schemes exploring designs using a single kind of LED's each. I wouldn't use A or B because I would need to make extensive arrays to get a good throwing distance; I wouldn't use C because it leaves me with no near field; however, I became interested in D because, although it still has no near field, it gives me the best far field of all the designs, as long as I make the beams cross at a distance between 15 and 20 meters.
Scheme E seems ideal: Good near field, good far field. Still, I kept brainstorming.
Scheme F seems an ideal first phase for my project: it supplements my existing headlights without too many LED's.
Scheme G will be my ideal to achieve: on the second phase of my project, and once I have enough money for all the LED's and don't have my final exams hanging over my head anymore, I should equal the light emission of my headlights on high setting.

Comments

[eskimojo]

Not only would that happen but it would dim your lights in passing through the glass.