Just on visual inspection holding the headlight shell and aiming it at the garage wall it has almost an identical pattern as the conventional h4 bulb.
The low beam filament in the h4 bulb is shielded toward the bottom of the reflector. This cause the light to reflect more out of the top half of the lens. The led low beam is the same way. It is on the top and emits light in a 280 degree arc that is biased upwards.
The high beam filament in the h4 bulb fills in the bottom half of the light pattern and due to the shape of the bottom half of the reflector is projected further out. The led high beam is biased toward the bottom to get the same effect.
While they obviously appear to my eye to be brighter the biggest difference is in the color of the light. Even the best incandescent bulb is biased toward the yellow end of the spectrum. The import tuners using "blue" colored bulbs are defeating the purpose of a bright light. The first color sensitivity your eyes lose at night is in the blue spectrum. That is the reason high crime areas have sodium vapor lights that give off that distinctive yellowish color. It increases contrast and allows better night vision. This led bulb has a color temperature of 6000k which equates to a clear midday sky color of white.
As for the legality, Georgia does not have a vehicle inspection of any kind. The law states that if it is installed it has to be operational, ie. if you have turn indicators they must work. removing them is no problem, just use hand signals if you are brave enough. You don't even need a title on a vehicle over 20 years old, just a bill of sale to register it.
I have been running a yellow tinted headlight for a couple of years. I have friends in Florida that have been ticketed for a yellow headlight. I have never been stopped and have even had LEO's come over and comment on the looks of my bike when out places.
I researched the Motor Vehicle code before going to the yellow light and all it states is what colors can be visible from the front of a vehicle, white, yellow and amber and what colors are prohibited from being seen from the front, red, blue and green. It states the minimum and maximum height of a headlight from the road surface and the distance they must illuminate an object in the roadway. Everything else is at the LEO's discretion. If you are blinding oncoming traffic I am sure they will get you ticketed but a properly aimed light should be allowable regardless of the "whiteness" and "brightness".
