Morimoto 2stroke 2.0 LED fog bulb clocking?

Hey guys, I found a video a few days ago but can’t find it now of how to clock the LED bulbs in the ram vertical fogs. I just got and installed my morimoto 2stroke 2.0 LED bulbs and want to make sure I have them clocked correctly. If my memory serves me right the chip board should be vertical with the chips facing 9 & 3 right?

I have attached a pic to see the position.

Also side note the 2stroke 2.0s seem like a nice product. Only thing I’m not a fan of so far is how the bulbs are clocked. It’s a bulb holder seems like metal or plastic and the bulb has 3 silicone rings for an interference fit to the holder. Since you can’t really tell when they are fully clocked in the housing it’s easy to over clock them by continuing to turn the bulb in the bulb holder. Other than that the bulbs seem nice and the color is pure white (not blue) which I don’t want. I have FXR 3.0 retrofitted sport headlights with 5500k XB HId bulbs and morimoto Elite 50w ballasts. Which together is a white/slight yellow output so I wanted something to match. I’m sick of HIDs in the fogs and all the wiring and crap. So I went back to stock fogs with halogens and they work fine but hate how yellow they are of course. Figured these are the closest Quality LEDs to 5k temp so I’m gona rock them.

UPDATE:
Said screw it and decided to test them as is. Bulbs seemed to be positioned right. Output is pretty good, slightly more glare than the stock halogen bulbs but not stupid bright like HIDs. Output is def more than halogen with a smidge more glare but still has the decent fog light cutoff that the ram
Vertical fogs provide. The color match is perfect with my 5500k XB HID bulbs and 50w morimoto elite ballasts in FXR 3.0 retrofitted sport headlights. The headlights are stupid bright so the fogs honestly don’t do much but I hated the yellow on the sides. Very happy thus far and like I said they are brighter and clean white output. Side note which I got 2 different answers from TRS was needing resistors, one said I would and the others said I wouldn’t. Ends up being that you DONT! Just plug em in and go! Which is nice and not needed to deal with extra crap like HIDs. Overall it was a win, got extra light, not enough to get flashed, matched my headlights and no extra crap to fail.

These are rated at 23W, 2440 raw lumens at 5500k.

these go for $120 and I used a 15% off promo code which ended up being $102 and after tax $108 with free shipping.

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Let us see some pics at night with those on please! Been wanting to see how they will work in the fogs.

And I believe you have them correct at the 9 & 3 position..,,

I thought a few said 6 &12 for fogs, 9 &3 for projector headlights?
My ddm 35w direct fit 6k fogs just came today, hopefully tomorrow i cant get them in. Im not even sure i can clock them!

Cableman said:

I thought a few said 6 &12 for fogs, 9 &3 for projector headlights?
My ddm 35w direct fit 6k fogs just came today, hopefully tomorrow i cant get them in. Im not even sure i can clock them!

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you don’t have to with HIDs. LEDs have to due to the chip board. HIDs are like halogens aka 360 glass capsule. Only time clocking is important with HID is with some projector retrofits have a shadow in the beam pattern by the grounding strap.

6k and 35w is going to be pure white with a hint of blue.

OC455 said:

Let us see some pics at night with those on please! Been wanting to see how they will work in the fogs.

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will do! I’m excited. It’s my first LED bulb swap since I’m not looking for max lux’s and more for color at this point. I already had HIDs and had the HID harness with matchbox retrofitted fogs and now I’m trying out new looks and a simpler install.

blackbetty14 said:

you don’t have to with HIDs. LEDs have to due to the chip board. HIDs are like halogens aka 360 glass capsule. Only time clocking is important with HID is with some projector retrofits have a shadow in the beam pattern by the grounding strap.

6k and 35w is going to be pure white with a hint of blue.

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I clocked my hids with bar on bottom for stock projectors , ddm ultras in 5500k, hopefully the fogs match somewhat. I didnt wanna over power them with the 50watts, but maybe they would be less white and match better?

Cableman said:

I clocked my hids with bar on bottom for stock projectors , ddm ultras in 5500k, hopefully the fogs match somewhat. I didnt wanna over power them with the 50watts, but maybe they would be less white and match better?

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Usually 35w to 50w reduces bulb temp by about 1k. So a 6000k would be closer to 5k with a 50w ballast. Ballasts seems not created equal, AC vs DC, true power output etc. don’t run 50w in the fogs. I got flashed a lot when I ran 35w DDM in my fogs in my 2014 ram express.

Cableman said:

I clocked my hids with bar on bottom for stock projectors , ddm ultras in 5500k, hopefully the fogs match somewhat. I didnt wanna over power them with the 50watts, but maybe they would be less white and match better?

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With the 50watt power to those, it should drop them to 4500K.

So should the fogs be close to 9/3 or 6/12? Im thinking the ones i got are turn and burn

Cableman said:

So should the fogs be close to 9/3 or 6/12? Im thinking the ones i got are turn and burn

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HIDs are turn and burn unless your having ground strap shadow issues.

Just updated the first post. Everything is all set. I don’t have any clean walls to get output shots and everything is closed by me to get up against a wall. Output isn’t as smooth as stock but not bad at all.

Looks good, i just installed my 35w ddm today, i got the chips to sit as close to 6 and 12.
If they sit at 3 and 9 they shine into the silver sides not the reflectors. I know someone on here said having them at 6//12 produced a better pattern in the vertical fogs.
Ill let ya know tonight!

Cableman said:

Looks good, i just installed my 35w ddm today, i got the chips to sit as close to 6 and 12.
If they sit at 3 and 9 they shine into the silver sides not the reflectors. I know someone on here said having them at 6//12 produced a better pattern in the vertical fogs.
Ill let ya know tonight!

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Didn’t realize your 35w were LEDs, I thought u were talking about HIDs lol my bad. I’ve been trying to find that damn video all night and couldn’t! Everywhere I looked showed the chips to be at 9/3 in reflector housings. Honestly just to be sure I might pull a housing and bench test to verify in my garage as it’s only noon now.

blackbetty14 said:

Didn’t realize your 35w were LEDs, I thought u were talking about HIDs lol my bad. I’ve been trying to find that damn video all night and couldn’t! Everywhere I looked showed the chips to be at 9/3 in reflector housings. Honestly just to be sure I might pull a housing and bench test to verify in my garage as it’s only noon now.

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Lol thats ok, i kinda figured you were thinking that.
The vertical fogs contour on top and bottom so it kinda makes sense that the chips face them and not the silver sides.
I will check later also.

So I figured it out, did some testing by removing the fog and testing bulb position and output compared to stock. I had the LED bulb correct! LED chips should face 9/3 and the board should be vertical.

here are some output shots to show you beam pattern and out put. The light was in the same spot for each test only difference was bulb position and swap.


2stroke 2.0 with chips at 9/3 with pcb vertical (correct narrow and wide beam pattern)


Stock 9006 halogen bulb


2 stroke 2.0 with chips at 12/6 and PCB horizontal (more glare and taller pattern)

I will say that putting the chips 12/6 while it shortens the beams width and makes it taller it actually makes it a good bit brighter... like it has a hot spot.

With fogs you aren't looking for height. You're after width and to fill in where the headlights don't


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1500ram12 said:

With fogs you aren't looking for height. You're after width and to fill in where the headlights don't


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Yea I know. You can’t even tell my fogs are on with the FXR 3.0s except for the very edges. Just saying you could get a bump in distance if you needed it by rotating the bulb as you can see it’s def brighter with the chips at 12/6.

Definitely makes sense that its brighter having the chips shine more into the reflectors. Thanks for testing that, ill have to drive with them both ways now.