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AC Platinum™ LED Series - The Best LED Headlights for Air Cooled 911's, 912's, 930's & 964's .
AC Platinum™ LED Series - The Best LED Headlights for Air Cooled 911's, 912's, 930's & 964's .

AC Platinum™ LED Series - The Best LED Headlights for Air Cooled 911's, 912's, 930's & 964's .

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The Only LED Headlights For Porsches Recommended by International Lighting Consultant Daniel Stern

It's not trivial to classify 7" LED Headlights as Best-in-Class® but we believe these are the best in the world. This effort has been made possible due to a collaboration between John Audette of Audette Collection and Lighting Consultant Daniel Stern of Daniel Stern Lighting Consultancy and Supply. Many thanks to Daniel.
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Automotive lighting is an exact science and, obviously, a safety component. That fact is continually ignored by the innumerable hucksters who will say anything to make a buck. As a business we need to make money too but not at the expense of our customers' safety. Thus our quest to build the very best LED headlights for air cooled Porsches.

We are fortunate to have Daniel Stern, a recognized worldwide leading expert on automotive lighting, as our Senior Consultant. That enables us to skip the hype and concentrate on the science. Our reasoning is that you use the best component for every part in the assembly you are going to end up with a Best-in-Class product. We've worked a long time on this and we're excited to bring you the new AC Platinum Plus LED Headlights.

LED Light Units - Latest Technology

The JW Speaker 8700 LEDs we've been building into our premium headlamps for the past five years are excellent but these Philips Integrated Beam LED's, with the latest advanced technology, have surpassed them. We rely heavily on the technical expertise of Daniel, our Senior Lighting Consultant, and he has subjected the Philips LED's to extensive testing and found them to deliver significantly superior performance versus the Speaker 8700's . Here 's an excerpt from his analysis:

I can finally give John a good answer to his question about what are the best 7" round LED headlamps. I have a new favourite, by a comfortable margin, and it's affordable: the Philips Integrated Beam LED.

This Philips lamp produces a very wide, well-formed and -focused beam, with a pleasingly sharp cutoff and lots of down-the-road light even with a low headlamp mount height. It can readily be aimed visually, optically, or with the old-fashioned Hoppy-type sealed beam aimer that interfaces with the three lens pips. And while it doesn't look olde-tyme, it also doesn't deface the car by looking like it came off a space ship.

Objectively these are superior to the JW Speaker 8700 LED units. It's been more than a few years since the Speakers were updated, and LEDs and associated optics have been evolving at a galloping pace. The Philips puts more light on the road, and it is focused more usefully for maximum seeing distance (= maximum safe speed at night), _even with a low headlamp mounting height_. This really is a knocked-outta-the-park product from Philips, and no, I am not being paid or otherwise induced to say that.

So we are switching to the Philips Integrated LED's. There is nothing wrong with the Speakers - technology has simply passed them by. One big advantage of being a small business is that we are very nimble and can respond to technological advancement quickly as we don't have a warehouse full of old technology that we have to sell before moving forward.

 Lenses

Based on advice from Mr. Stern we strongly recommend using clear Hella SB19 lenses. However, you're the customer and you also have the following choices:

  • Hella SB19
  • Bosch H4 Fluted Lenses
  • Bosch 4475 or Hella 4479 "Flat" Fluted Lenses

Hardware

Your choice of adjustment screws:

  • Chrome plated oval head slotted screws (as used originally by Porsche)
  • Stainless steel oval head Phillips screws

Porsche OEM mounting screws.

Specs