Mercedes-Benz LED headlight teardown

Come as pair, but i did not know from what cars type.

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Let’s start teardown with the right one first.

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Dimension about 165 x 130 x 90mm and using a passive heatsink.

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3 main block with “plastic” lens/reflector and rotary shield mechanism, made by Hella.

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Osram emitter 2×6 emitter in series with custom package at super wide metal core aluminium pcb. Sorry for curvy picture (my new lenses have a terrible distortion at fully zoomed).

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Wiring diagram.

Tracking device for rotary shield mechanism.

Rotary shield have 6 beam pattern. The picture above is emitter driven at 0.5A at 35.5VDC translate to ~18Watt. BUT after more testing driven at 0.5A, the heatsink temperature reach 75 Celcius just about 15 minutes which  is too hot for my taste. I have to make it lower to 0.35A (12 Watt) and after 1 hour temperature about 72 Celcius with 32 Celcius ambient temp or about 40 Celcius DeltaT.

Move to left/smaller projector. Dimension about 125 x 145 x 100mm.

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aperture or shield

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Osram Ostar with 5 emitter in series, you can get all detail on datasheet at osram website.

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What a nice super wide beam. Emitter driven at 1A

Both projector is combined. Since my previous lens is broken, i have to use different camera setting.

 

Thank’s to Wanto Bekas Loak to allow me to borrow this projector.

 

2 thoughts on “Mercedes-Benz LED headlight teardown

    1. Since i never lay my hand on those type, sorry i can’t help you with emitter voltage/current setting

      But if you have a right tools like variable power supply, you can try starting from low voltage up and read the consume current to closely match wattage rating

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