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- markwhitt65
- Member Since: 06 Mar 2017
- Location: Shropshire
- Posts: 16
Led lights in the snow
I was caught in a heavy snow storm before Christmas and ended up having to drive on side lights and fogs because the reflection off the snow was blinding.
On reaching home my headlights were completely covered by hard snow as the LED’s don’t emit any heat.
My Disco was superb in the snow very solid I am running verdestien wintrac tyres which seem really good.
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- RyanRC
- Member Since: 05 Apr 2017
- Location: Connecticut
- Posts: 76
For any that have them, how are the fogs in helping out in the snow?
Often I have found with my Zr2 Blazer it the fogs I end up relying on where while the headlights light up whats in front of me, the fogs give me these nice two beams down low and to the sides of the front that give me a sense of where I am in relation to where I am going, which also seem to work the same like this irrelevant to how blinding anything is as apposed to the main lights.
If anyone gets what I mean as think this is just what they are supposed to do.
But in looking at the Disco to me the fogs look really small and almost too low especially considering the large nose to this truck.
So was just wondering in these conditions do people feel the fogs are really doing the job they are supposed to do?
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- Blackfly
- Member Since: 15 Jun 2017
- Location: Up North
- Posts: 466
I think the fogs help, I suppose the end result is you slow down in falling snow which is probably a good thing. Next time we get some I’ll try and get some piccies
F50, Fourtack, LR3 and now..............D5 HSE TDV6
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- DieselRanger
- Member Since: 12 Oct 2017
- Location: God's Country, Colorado
- Posts: 768
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RyanRC wrote:
For any that have them, how are the fogs in helping out in the snow?
Often I have found with my Zr2 Blazer it the fogs I end up relying on where while the headlights light up whats in front of me, the fogs give me these nice two beams down low and to the sides of the front that give me a sense of where I am in relation to where I am going, which also seem to work the same like this irrelevant to how blinding anything is as apposed to the main lights.
If anyone gets what I mean as think this is just what they are supposed to do.
But in looking at the Disco to me the fogs look really small and almost too low especially considering the large nose to this truck.
So was just wondering in these conditions do people feel the fogs are really doing the job they are supposed to do?
You're correct, fog lights are only supposed to illuminate the edges of the road immediately in front of you so that you don't drive off the road or cross into oncoming traffic. If you need fogs, you should be going pretty slow anyway. They work fine in heavy rain and fog, but it's snow that's my biggest concern. Once the road is covered in fresh falling snow, with white fogs, you lose contrast and it's hard to see, say, the roll off past the shoulder on an elevated road bed.
Additionally, with the white LED main beams (5,000-6,000K), and the fact that they are mounted just below the hoodline not very far out of line with the viewer in the driver's seat, there's a lot of reflection right back at the driver in heavy snow. I guess I'd like to see LR source yellower (not yellow, but a warmer white, say 3,000K) main beams, or at least yellow fogs (pure yellow isn't on the color temperature spectrum but check out "super yellow" on the Lumex page here). Yellow fogs, even the "soft white" color of old-school sealed beam incandescent bulbs would be more helpful to reduce the reflection.
LEDs can be built to directly emit any color/wavelength of light from infrared through UV, so you don't get the problem of attenuation through color filters like you did back when "selective yellow" lamps were all the rage. Some are tunable for color, but I doubt they would achieve certification in the US with our archaic headlight laws on the books.
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