How to Make Efficient and Powerful Car Headlights Using 4-Pin Super Flux Piranha LEDs

You might be pretty familiar with the ordinary two-pin,m 5mm white LEDs, which are by no means “ordinary” and produce lights at reasonably high intensities. However when it comes to 4-pin LEDs, the 2-pin types stand no where near it. Include just 50 of them in a group, and you are well producing lights that may be more dazzling than conventional car headlight intensities. Here we discuss how to implement 4-pin LEDs in automobiles for making their headlights more power efficient and more powerful.

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In fact the application may not be restricted to just car headlights, you might want to use them for other applications also, like as a LED tube light in your home, that can result in a lot of saving in your electrical utility bills.

Before we proceed with the proposed circuit of efficient high power LED head light design details, let’s first analyze the important specs of this interesting light emitting device.

A 4-pin super bright piranha LED might look complex at the first appearance, but a careful look will assure you that it’s as easy to understand as a two pin type. 

Though the device includes 4 pin outs, two on each side are actually shorted internally, and therefore technically it has just two outputs, one anode and the other cathode quite like our ordinary two pin LEDs.

However a four pin arrangement is made to suit it’s size and for assisting firm PCB mounting, the square extra large shape of a 4-pin LED is designed to introduce some special features in it, attributing the qualities of generating extravagant light emissions to them.

4-pin super flux LED Datasheet

The following text provides some of the important specs related to 4-pin LEDs:

Safe operating temperature – 25 to 80degree Celsius

Typical operating voltage – 3.5 volts,

Maximum operating voltage – not to exceed 4 volts.

Normal continuous operating current – 20 mA,

Peak instantaneous current – up to 100 mA

Viewing angle – 50 degrees.

How to Make Efficient and Powerful Car Headlights Using 4-Pin Super Flux Piranha LEDs

The DIAGRAM  illustrates a simple application circuit using 48 high intensity 4-pin LEDs for automobile headlights. 

Since the operating forward voltage of the LED type is around 3.5, three of them accommodates in each channel, in series. 

The series are further connected in parallel for making the total number up to 48.

Voltage is derived from the car battery via the dashboard switch. Preferably the LEDs may be arranged in circles for uniform distribution of light. 

The PCB used must be a glass epoxy type, double sided; the hind side copper of the laminate is not etched and is used as a heatsink for absorbing heat from the LEDs and dissipating it in the air.

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