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hi a couple of questions what are you guys using as far as light bars go on your 4x4s and how many lumens is your normal 55/60w halogen headlight bulb. im thinking about getting one as I was coming back late on the weekend and driving on the beach my headlights barely lit the way for me to see. the only ones ive had a quick look at are on dx
If you get one mount it on the roof, light can then fill all the hollows in front of you.
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Personally I prefer spotlights for the conditions I drive in over here in Aus .
I bought a light bar awhile ago ( Im a sucker for advertising and hype ) and although it really does a great job in the close to medium range it doesn't have the distance that a pair of good spotties do .
A combination of the two would be the ultimate .
The light bar ended up on one of the work utes and my personal ute has some awesome HID spotties that are worth every bit of the money I spent .
Ken
Make and model of your spotties Ken?
John
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This arrangement works the best that I've come up with .
The little LED side lights are actually on an angle so they light up the sides of the road and the spotties handle the middle .
The Roo's you hit are the ones that come at you from the side , so seeing them early can be a lifesaver .
The HID 's as usual take a few seconds to come up to full strength from cold , but once you have had them going and warmed up they are good when dimming the lights for oncoming traffic and back to full noise again .
I have Hella , Lightforce and Narva lights on my work vehicles . These HID's leave the halogen lights for dead .
I will never buy another Halogen spotlight again .
Ken
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Here's a pic of the light bar that is good up close but doesn't have the distance that I like and require .
Ken
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I like these while they may not have the distance of large hid i can still get reflectors 6-700m away and a huge white lit up area in the 0-400m with lots of side light as well.No heat up time just instant light and no fragile bulbs.
Thanks Ken. I had spotties on my Hilux in Aussie and really miss the distance factor on both my Prado and now Ranger. I might need to add a nudge bar to mount something on.
I had HID's on the Prado and they have a very good white bright well spread light but no length.
Looking at light bars available at Courtesy Ford, they tried selling me a combo unit with thirds. Two outer thirds spreading light and middle third long distance but they couldn't tell/show me examples so I'm reluctant to spend coin as a trial!!
Ranger lights do ok out to 250-300 and reflectors show up maybe 400-500.... but while fine for city limits, not adequate for genuine night travel, especially if overcast and little to no moonlight.
John
I wabt to put light bars on my quad. How much watts can the quad handle. A 120w lightbar for example will draw 10a when full on.
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The LTSA won't even know what they are yet!:ORLY:
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