Hi, Paul with Diode Dynamics here with our SS3 LED pods. Today we're talking about one of the
unique features about these lights, which is the user-replaceable lenses. The SS3 is one of the
few pods on the market where you can swap these out yourself without losing the warranty. The
lenses themselves are a durable polycarbonate material with an attached rubber o-ring and
the whole process to change them out only takes a couple minutes we'll get to that in a second but
first why would you want to swap out the lenses at all? Well you might be looking for a different
beam pattern, we offer spot, flood, driving, and fog output patterns with these lights. If you're
installing them on a different vehicle or even in a different application you might be looking for a
different beam pattern rather than buying a whole new light you can simply swap over the lenses and
get the beam pattern you're looking for in just a few minutes. The other reason you might want
to swap lenses is to actually change the color and you can do that to some degree with the SS3
LED. Now i say to some degree because the white lights and the yellow lights are actually built
a little differently from the factory our white SS3 pod uses 6000k cool white emitters we use
those because they're a perfect match to factory lighting if you have OEM LEDs on your vehicle or
headlights or anything this will be a perfect match when you go to install them. The yellow
lights on the other hand used 4000 K emitters. That's a warm white color and by passing the
warm white through our yellow lens we achieve a really great golden yellow color. So what does
that mean when we go to change the color of the lens, well over here I have two lights that look
like their yellow one was originally a white light and that's here when I turn them on you can see if
you can tell a difference the white original light uses that 6000k LED so when it passes through that
yellow lens it's going to be a little bit less of vibrant yellow color. It's still a nice yellow as
you can see but it's just not quite the same as our original yellow light which has that 4000K
LED paired with the lens again here we have our 6000K a ship passing through yellow and here is
the default yellow configuration with the 4000 K and yellow lens to produce that really great
golden yellow color so you can change the color over but the yellow is not going to be quite the
same. How does it work with white well the white one here I also have one that's a 4000 K LED I've
converted over and one that's 6000 I'll get these plugged in for you you can see again if you can
tell the difference. Now on the left here is our 4000K emitter this was originally a yellow light
and as you can see it's that warm or white color but that might be something that you're going for
depending on your setup on the right side is our 6000k LED which is the standard white color that
you'll receive out of the box when you order a white light. So if you take a yellow light and
swap a clear lens onto it you'll end up by just seeing that 4000 K LED versus the original light
is that 6000k color temperature so depending on the color you're looking to achieve you might be
able to pull that off. If you want a unique color like that 4000 K you might want to purchase the
yellow lights and swap the clear lenses on right away it's an option that's available because of
how we've built these lights; now let's take a look at the actual process to swap these over.
So right now I'm going to show you how to swap out the yellow lens on this light to a clear
lens instead again that'll allow the 4000k LED to shine right through for a 4000 K wide output
we can look at that output color right now of that original yellow and at the end we'll see
how that compares so tools for this you can see I'm wearing some gloves. I don't want any
fingerprints or dust or debris to get on the lenses as I swap them out. I've also got the
lens itself you'll see it's packaged up really well and then a T10 Torx head screwdriver so
we'll get the lens out of the packaging again you can see how much care goes into making sure
that these aren't damaged and there's no dust on them either by the time they get to you.
You don't want to do this in a garage either I would recommend doing it indoors you don't
want dust around and we have a soft surface we're working on as well the owner risk any scratches
or damage so here's our lens and now we're just going to remove the lens from the original lamp.
So to do that we're going to flip it over and we're just gonna remove the 4 T10 screws around
the edge. So align your driver and just remove them one at a time go come out pretty easily.
Once you have all four screws completely removed you can just lift the lamp off of the bezel here
the screws might fall out that's okay then you'll want to remove the original lens. Again if you
have gloves on it's no problem just to shake it out of it, it will be press fit in there a bit but
you can remove it you might want to package that up in your original plastic to keep it nice and
protected in case you want to swap back some time, but now we're going to align the new lens into
place. If you look at the back of the lens you'll see a couple indentations where there are keys to
actually make sure it's in the correct direction you can also compare the DD marking on the lens
itself to the circuit board and make sure those line-up and that way I know that they're in the
correct direction. You won't be able to install it in the wrong way so you know it's correct when
it's all nice and level in there as well. Now when you're doing this don't remove the o-ring from the
lens itself. If you remove it, it might not be installed in the correct way so you just want to
leave it all as one unit. You can see the lens we removed we're just gonna leave the o-ring on
there as well the o-ring comes with the lens you don't need to remove the o-ring for any reason,
then we're just gonna put the bezel back on top. If you have a different kit like our type B you
want to make sure it's in the correct orientation but otherwise most kits can be installed with any
orientation no problem. We're gonna flip that over and then we install the screws one at a time now
as you do this you want to do it kind of like you would install lugs on a wheel. You want to do a
little bit here a little bit on the opposite side and then tighten them all down so we'll start one
side of the time here just a little bit to start just as soon as that catches there. We'll go over
to the other side we just want to make sure that there's even pressure all the way around.
There we go. Now when it comes to torquing these down you just want to make sure that they're
hand-tight not even very hand tight because you can strip out the screws with too much pressure.
It's not important that these have extreme pressure on them you just want to make sure
that they're tight so that they'll hold together now I've gotten to the fourth screw here so I'm
going to tighten it the rest of the way down and again I'm just going to make sure it's tight and
then work my way around all the screws around the lamp. You will be able to tell when there's some
significant resistance and that's when you stop screwing it in. So there we go all four screws
are tight as you can see that only took about a minute two minutes and now I can power it up with
this original yellow lamp and the clear lens installed we have that warm white 4000k color
which might be what you're going for depending on your needs. As you can see the ability to
swap out these lenses in just a couple of minutes is a great option to have whether
you're looking to change your beam pattern or the color of your SS3 LED pods you can do it all
in just a couple of minutes. You can find these replacement lenses online at Diodedynamics.com
or use our dealer locator to find them at a dealer near you. thanks for watching.