Poser pro 2012 update11/27/2022 Unfortunately the online reviews seem to always say that the AlphaRex are so much brighter, swaying people to buy in that direction. That is clearly not the case just like all the other online reviews. While the OP claimed the lights had not yet been adequately aimed in this photo, the hot spot should be at the top edge of the beam pattern regardless of the aiming. Massive foreground light, which indicates an improperly designed headlight. The OPs own output photo shows the exact same pattern performance seen in the online reviews. Again, see my previous post, I've never given a good review to a Morimoto product. It is very clear that Morimoto understood how to properly engineer a headlight pattern and AlphaRex made a pathetic attempt to build a headlight by using a short range flood pattern. In the AlphaRex product your eyes are drawn immediately infront of the vehicle, while in the Morimotos they are not, they should be drawn off to the headlight horizon. Look at each beam pattern and see where your eyes are drawn. And this is what I constantly reiterate, people see the foreground light and say wow it is bright, not realizing that isn't how a headlight is supposed to work, there is so much more to headlight design. Brighter isn't better unless it is brighter in the right place in the pattern. It is more difficult to see beyond the excessive short range bright spot. Excessive foreground light will draw your eyes down from the horizon, it will restrict your distance night vision and enable you to outrun your headlights. AlphaRex quite literally has this completely backward, there is no way this is an SAE compliant product. The pattern should have a very smooth uniform light pattern that minimizes foreground light and increases in intensity to the pattern cut off. Here is one, AlphaRex left vs Morimoto right:Įveryone says wow AlphaRex is so much brighter! If you understand how a headlight is supposed to work, you know that foreground light is supposed to be minimized and that maximum beam intensity is supposed to be at the cut off horizon for maximum distance projection. But there are so many red flags in others online reviews, unfortunately most are all done by amateurs that do not understand what to look for causing them to draw the wrong conclusions, propagating misinformation. The OP is correct, I have not personally tested the AlphaRex lights. This is a well understood problem in the lighting community. Being sold in China there is no recourse or mandate that the products actually meet the spec, so they don't need to invest in the proper engineering R&D, testing, compliance check and just stamp it as SAE compliant because it doesn't really matter for their target audience and allows them to sell for substantially cheaper. AlphaRex's 3rd Gen lights seem directly sourced from Alibaba, even with the AlphaRex logos blurred out. There is no better place to find fraudulent products than Alibaba. Meaning you must trust the credibility of the manufacture to have done their own SAE compliance testing. Recall that SAE compliance is a self certification process, aka it is an honor system, the government does not issue any compliance certification. Unfortunately China is also rampant with non-reputable manufactures and is well known for falsifying SAE compliance claims. As such, you can be assured Valeo's products will meet the SAE pattern requirements of the spec, their business as an OEM supplier with the worlds largest automotive manufactures depends on it. Valeo is a well known major OEM supplier lighting manufacture. Toyota's OEM LED fogs made by Valeo are made in China. To be clear, there is nothing fundamentally wrong from an engineering standpoint with manufacturing lights in China. Even mistakes are still helpful for others to learn from without incurring the cost of learning on their own. Well there was no need to delete the whole thread.
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