{"id":3723,"date":"2012-08-12T00:37:46","date_gmt":"2012-08-12T07:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/?p=3723"},"modified":"2012-08-14T00:20:12","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T07:20:12","slug":"leds-are-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/2012\/08\/leds-are-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"LEDs are the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a reason why people refer to their cars as &#8220;money pits&#8221;, because every little thing is expensive. I&#8217;m finding it near impossible to place an order that doesn&#8217;t somehow end up coming close to $100, take for example this innocent looking baggie of LED bulbs. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/leds.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/leds-620x465.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"leds\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3724\" srcset=\"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/leds-620x465.jpg 620w, http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/leds-800x600.jpg 800w, http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/leds.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If I want to boggle the mind of a peer, I can simply unveil my stack of receipts for this car, which itself is growing taller in height at an alarming rate. Ranting aside, let&#8217;s get back to the subject of these LEDs. It was not my initial intention to buy minor details items now, as I want to focus on handling the more substantial aspects of the car first. But since the &#8217;99 combo lights are hard to remove once the bumper is installed and I wanted to upgrade the day time running bulbs in them, I figured now would be more convenient to invest in the LEDs.<\/p>\n<p>Before (you can see the standard bulb jutting out in the driving light opening):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/99combolight.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/99combolight-620x465.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"99combolight\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3725\" srcset=\"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/99combolight-620x465.jpg 620w, http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/99combolight-800x600.jpg 800w, http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/99combolight.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After&#8230; with a Cree 3-watt LED. The optical lens makes it look like a small projector. I specifically chose this one because it has 3 LEDs on the side around the circumference, which should help round-out the light output. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/creeled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/creeled-620x465.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"creeled\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3726\" srcset=\"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/creeled-620x465.jpg 620w, http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/creeled-800x600.jpg 800w, http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/creeled.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I also want to upgrade the map, dome, trunk, license plate, and rear side marker lights to LED counterparts. I decided not to go crazy and change out every single bulb on the car to LEDs, rather, just enough to give the car a noticeable touch and difference. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a reason why people refer to their cars as &#8220;money pits&#8221;, because every little thing is expensive. I&#8217;m finding it near impossible to place an order that doesn&#8217;t somehow end up coming close to $100, take for example this innocent looking baggie of LED bulbs. If I want to boggle the mind of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3723"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3743,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723\/revisions\/3743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}