Diode Dynamics - SS3 Ditch Lights - White/Yellow base models have different emitters that may affect later lens swap

[mcd_ovrlnd]

About to go down a rabbit hole on an issue that maybe doesn't matter. Looking at Diode Dynamics SS3 LED pods for ditch lights. You can buy a model that comes with a white lens or a model that comes with a yellow lens. You can, after market, swap out the lens for a different color. Issue is that DD builds the white light and the yellow light a little different. The white uses 6,000k emitters, the yellow 4,000k emitters. So, if you buy the white model and then at some point decide to put a yellow lens on it, it will look a bit different than if you originally bought the yellow model. Vice versa as well. They explain this in the video below starting around 0:50. Maybe the difference is so negligible that it doesn't matter. Just can't decide which base model to buy if I do, at some point, plan on swapping out lens for different trips.

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[Joestac]

Curious as well since I've never had ditch lights and I have been eyeing them for my TH. Seems like I'd want to go white with a brighter light since the point of these is to see better. I have only used the amber fogs on my TH once during some heavy fog, I use white all the other time as they are brighter. Am I missing something about the amber other than looks?

 

[mcd_ovrlnd]

Amber/yellow is good in fog, but equally good in snow and dust. White is really only good if you are overloading in perfect weather and even then I can have a strain on your eyes. Amber/yellow performs way better in fog, snow, dust and rain and easier on the eyes. I may have just answered my own question.

 

[Joestac]

Amber/yellow is good in fog, but equally good in snow and dust. White is really only good if you are overloading in perfect weather and even then I can have a strain on your eyes. Amber/yellow performs way better in fog, snow, dust and rain and easier on the eyes. I may have just answered my own question.

That does make sense as they did better in the fog, thus the use. No snow to speak of for me in Central Texas, but we do get some rain pretty bad sometimes. Seems like maybe amber then for ditch.

 

[127.0.0.1]

you want yellow for ditch lights 'cuz about 99% the time it's dusty and yellow
cuts thru dust very well. and rain and fog. but it's the dust which blinds you
especially if you aren't the only vehicle driving around. amber is OK too but
imho amber cuts too much visible light

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