didn't like the dealers answer of leaving lights in 'auto' to have "drls" so picked up a waterproof strip of side emitting ones from superbrightleds, its a meter long and i'll cut it into half (almost, the dividers dont split it evenly so lose like a 3 inch segment in middle with 4 leds to get two strips out of it)

ordered them in 'natural white' because can't stand the yellowness of warm white, and was worried the cool white might be too blue, plus the natural according to specs put out the most light of all of them

the pics aren't quite right, they don't look that warm in reality, its a cleaner white in person than what it looks like

 

I'm not quite sure how the full size Outlander headlights would work with this, but one of the guys on a different Mitsubishi forum I'm on figured out a really great way to use LED's on his Outlander Sport:

Project Blackout - Page 4 - evolutionm.net

Basically you'd use "side-firing" LED strips instead of the front firing ones that you have currently, and it reflects throughout the headlamp really, really well.

 

yeah i am using side emiting diodes

thats interesting what he did, i'll have to go back out and see how the crystals on the wifes outtie are because i dont think its quite the same and couldn't get that effect with hers

just cut the strips and siliconed the end caps on waiting for those to set

 

Natural white seems to be the best options, mine DRLs are too blueish

 

4300K is pretty "natural" white. 5000K is technically "cool" white, but for some reason most LED suppliers tend to use closer to 6000K for "cool" white, which is a blueish-white like you have there, Vadimus.

Do you recall where you got them from?

 

4300 is standard for incandescent lighting (which is a dingy yellow) standard noon time overhead high overcast light is technically around 5600k (natural white) and 6000 is closer to the bluish of arc type lighting (many early hids, strobes, etc)
i can't stand warm lighting, every 'regular' bulb in my house is a daylight cfl, much prefer that to standard cfls or incandescent bulbs

 

I agree that 4300K generally has a light yellow tinge to it, but I was going off the actual Kelvin values:



Like you, I prefer 5000K-5600K for most of my lighting.

Also, bear in mind if ordering HID's or other headlamp bulbs, 4300K has greater usable light output than the higher Kelvin values.

 

DO NOT LIKE! Horrible.

 

well then, good thing it's my wife's car and not yours

that's also not the finished product just getting a rough idea of how it worked /looked, it'll be two smaller strips one over each headlight

 

I have the same outlander and im thinkin of doing the same thing that looks more clean. the facts that the top of the headlight is not a led pipe just bothers me alot..