Originally the OEM incandescent bulbs were replaced with blue LEDs. A handful of PnP LEDs and custom LED arrays for the over head lighting. At this time the desire was to have the entire cabin interior lighting match the blue LED Instrument Cluster and Climate Controls. The blue looked 'cool' but provided little to no usable light in the cabin. After looking in to a way to improve the interior lighting for usable light without returning to the yellowish incandescents I ended up with the below for White LED Interior Lighting.
There is not a lot of space in the rear overhead lighting so I packed as many 5-Chip as I could which happened to be four. Each LED outputs ~30 Lumens. OEM 194 bulb outputs 25 Lumens. So, plenty more light output out of the four 5-chip LEDs and much better color temp. Nice crisp updated look with plenty of usable light and even than the luxer1 PnP(best you can buy).
Small Custom Etched PCB:
PCB Covered w/ Reflective Material(To Blend into OEM reflector)
PCB Populated with LEDs:
Front Overhead(Six LEDs here, any more equal overkill haha):
Output Shot:
There is also PnP 74 LEDs in all the door lights to keep the color temp the same. Those are simple to replace though. I'm a fan of some PnPs but not for exterior safety devices. The PnP for overhead just were not up to snuff. You also will not get good output with PnP overhead because the bulb fires up into a reflector. You can alter this though and make them fire down just as a note.
There is not a lot of space in the rear overhead lighting so I packed as many 5-Chip as I could which happened to be four. Each LED outputs ~30 Lumens. OEM 194 bulb outputs 25 Lumens. So, plenty more light output out of the four 5-chip LEDs and much better color temp. Nice crisp updated look with plenty of usable light and even than the luxer1 PnP(best you can buy).
Small Custom Etched PCB:
PCB Covered w/ Reflective Material(To Blend into OEM reflector)
PCB Populated with LEDs:
Front Overhead(Six LEDs here, any more equal overkill haha):
Output Shot:
There is also PnP 74 LEDs in all the door lights to keep the color temp the same. Those are simple to replace though. I'm a fan of some PnPs but not for exterior safety devices. The PnP for overhead just were not up to snuff. You also will not get good output with PnP overhead because the bulb fires up into a reflector. You can alter this though and make them fire down just as a note.
