This is often code for "I wanted something in line with my beliefs, not facts".
Was hoping for a little more true help for off-road, so the 'safe' terms for LEDs in place of Halogen do not hold much water for long distance desert off-road racing alone.
Lights that don't put light where it needs to be on road are often lights that don't put light where it needs to be off road.
You need to see distant things with high beams, not have excessive foreground saturation hurting your distant vision. This is true on the the highway and on the salt flats and anywhere you want your high beams to let you see far downrange.
I am going to get the Philips Ultinon Xtreme Vision LED +200%, the Ring +120% Xenon ultima, the Philips WHitevision and the GE +120 all in 9005 and then also these Philips 9011 that you suggested, and test them all in that same 9005 Reflector housings of the ranger.
The LED 'bulbs' are a non-starter. You won't have proper beam focus with them. The Philips WhiteVision is a blue-tinted bulb that costs you output, and does so by stripping useful light and leaving hard-to-see by blue wavelengths. The Ring and the GE Megalight Ultra +120 9005 (HB3) offerings would be fine among 9005s, but the 9011 (HIR1) will vastly outstrip their performance.
The nominal specs on the HB3 vs the HIR1 within their allowable tolerances:
9005: 1496lm to 1904lm;
9011: 1955lm to 2645lm. This means that the bare minimum in-spec 9011 will outperform a 9005 performing at its maximum allowable spec. The filament precision of the 9011 is better than the HB3, as well-- meaning much better beam focus.
(The +
X% figures mean that within a portion of the main beam, there will be that percentage higher intensity-- this is a result of the increased beam focus and filament luminance. It does NOT mean that it's that percentage increase in the bulb's total luminous flux.)
As I was asking for the brightest and furthest throwing, I will be seeing which of those provide that, and report back.
And you were told the brightest and furthest-throwing. You can waste a lot of money on the toy LED bulb, and buying 9005s that will not perform as well as a 9011, and on that photogoniometer generate an isocandela diagram, or you can just accept that the Vosla 9011 +30 outperforms any 9005.