XS Pete wrote:

dgardel wrote:

It's really curious how we take the parts with one or the other type of lights almost fighting ......

haa human nature .......

I know. It's amazing. Eric's rose-tinted glasses also seem to be preventing him from remembering actually getting his EVOs working properly in the first place.

I remember this because I replied to his appeals for high-powered diodes at the time.

http://www.defender2.net/forum/topic15899.html

Pete

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ken wrote:

Noticed the lights on the special editions


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Back to the thread: I think it should be pointed out that the Speakers have a lifetime warranty - not sure if the Noldens do?

Speaker 8700 Evo's to my knowledge have a Limited lifetime warranty

Noldens Bi Led have a 3 year warranty.


Personally I would not worry about the Noldens only having a 3 year warranty.

Have you heard of one report of Nolden lights suffering from condensation or water ingress? Or suffering from corrosion? Flickering? Time delay in going from main beam to dipped beam?


In 2014 we sold several hundreds of light units from the Nolden range. We have not had one light unit returned or one complaint about condensation/corrosion etc.

The worst 'issue' we had was a customer fitting Nolden BiLed to a 1986(?) G Wagen in London. The problem was with the headlight bulb failure system of the vehicle. Solution? We got an English speaking technician from Germany to actually phone the customer up, talking him through fitting a suitable supplied resistor and then clearing the fault codes on the vehicle. Once fault codes were cleared everything was fine



Brendan

ericvv wrote:

HardCharger wrote:

This is an interesting discussion.

From what I see, they all have whiteish lights almost like HIDs? If so, how do they perform in inclement weather (rain, fog, snow)? Isn't white light, in those conditions, counter productive to proper vision?

Not dissing them, I'm actually thinking about getting a pair (brand to be determined) eventually, but would still like to know how they perform across the weather conditions we all drive in. All the discussions thus far is how bright and how far they throw light.

I'm watching this and similar threads with great interest.

I don't believe much has been answered here about how they perform in the rain at night, which is a frequent occurence for many people I think, statistically more so accross the channel, than here by the lake. Rain and night combined mean that the black asphalt roads being wet do not properly reflect the light back, it basically bounces away as on a mirror, so a lot of emitted light is just getting lost for the driver.

When I was driving with my original lamps, i.e. the SVX clear Wipacs and the Land Rover upgraded halogen bulbs, driving in the rain at night was ok, but visible light on the road as said was poor.
Now with my LED headlamps it is surprisingly how well the road really gets lightened up in those very same conditions. The LED light is much much more visible on wet black roads.
Even more interesting comparison in this respect is with my wife's car which has factory HID (xenon) lights, the real stuff, not after market xenon bulbs. HID lights already are much whiter and much brighter than halogen lights, but at night in the rain, once again, the LEDs of the SVX remain far better than even those HIDs.
Eric