Alright so i did some digging and there about 5 million posts about led lights but i cant find anyone who has reviewed their use in the winter.

I live in PA and it gets pretty cold in the winter and you get alot of ice build up while driving.

My question is for anyone that has the LED headlights and has driven in the some crappy freezing weather. Do you get any ice build up since the lights do not get nearly as hot as Halogen or HID bulbs?

I was thinking about getting a set from raptor retrofit or trying to retrofit my own but wanted to see whether or not im going to run into issues when winter comes along.

thanks.

 

It's definitely something to be concerned about. I had mil spec LED headlight assemblies on my Hummer H1 and they didn't do well when driving in blowing snow. The LED headlights didn't generate enough heat to melt the snow off any they quickly got caked over with snow and ice every time I had to drive through a storm here in Utah.

 

Most modern LED's create a lot of heat. I would not worry too much.

 

I'll let you know as soon as it snows (In Minnesota)

 

The diode creates heat. But the heat isn't in the beam of light like halogens. Put you hand I front of a halogen spot light and it's hot (like old police spot lights) but put it in front of a new one, or led bar, headlight ect. And it's not warm.

 

I have a 2011 F-350 that I did a HID retrofit in. The headlights still get iced over in winter and those run pretty hot. I always thought the headlights would melt ice and snow off of them from the heat, but I found it wasn't the case. So, I would say it's kind of a moot point.

 

I drove my Platinum with LED headlights in some pretty bad winter and spring Wyoming weather this past year without any issues. The front camera and sensor iced over several times but the headlights worked fine, in my opinion. No different then my past experience with non-LED headlights.

 

My sled has LED lights, no problems there, though i dont drive it in wet conditions

 

Most LED work lights you can feel the heat in front of them at startup.

 

A LED is a direct bandgap semiconductor, and with carrier recombination gives off light instead of heat.