lightbars

[mad_industries]

I got light force 240 blitz non hid and thinking of either going hid with spread leanses or swapping for a roof mount 42" bar but dont know shit about light bars.

Convert to hid! And use the spread rings inside so you get best of both worlds, spread and spot in one

[Alby]

I would do the HID upgrade, you can always add a light bar later as well if you do a lot of night driving on tight roads

[obiee]

does anyone run a lightbar and normal halogen driving lights i was told from autobarn that if you run normal halogen bulbs in driving lights it drowns out the lightbars performance

[10 luxxxx]

I think they might be trying to up sell a hid kit mate I don't think it would be possible to drown out a led light bar.

[TDog]

does anyone run a lightbar and normal halogen driving lights i was told from autobarn that if you run normal halogen bulbs in driving lights it drowns out the lightbars performance

Just a sales guy's way of making more money. I run a LED bar and Halogens (FYRLYTS) and they complement each other. The Bar gives you crisp white light spread 150m down the road and edges for all those skippy's etc and the Spots punch 300m+ down the centre to pick out rise and fall, pot holes, and other obstacles.

IMO the Light bar and Spots do 2 different jobs.

[Qwerty]

does anyone run a lightbar and normal halogen driving lights i was told from autobarn that if you run normal halogen bulbs in driving lights it drowns out the lightbars performance

Complete crap, but i have an idea what he *might* have meant ....

I run a 5200kelvin , 9800 lumen LED light bar (a bluey white kind of light).
A pair of lightforce blitz 240's , halogen (around 4300kelvin colour), a few thousand lumens each i'd say.

You barely notice the "colour difference".

However, what i did notice, and this has nothing to do with it being halogen and everything to do with focuussing of the beam, was that because my pencils were so tight and focussed ... it created often a very bright/intense centre ball of light ... whereas the much wider spread of the light bar was lesser intensitty because its far more of a spread (still reaches far, but just not as "intense" of a light)... and what this created was a loss of visual acuity with the eyes, aka ... tunnel vision ... my eyes and mind would focus solely on the pencil beams because they were more intense.

So this means that driving along at night and i'd find myself only observing the centre ball of light rather than the whole light theatre.

What i did was 1) put a combospreader lens on one of pencil beams, to throw more of a wedge light , and subsequently lower the intensity of the centre ball closer to the light bar intensity .. 2) rotated the housings a little to make them a little more of a wider ball of light than the tight pencil .. again reducing and matching intensity to the overall theatre of light.

So now... the 'intensity" of all my lights melts into one big even theatre of light. If i convert my pencils into HID and theyre brighter, ill probably have to re-address coz that centre ball of light will again become much more intense than the wider spread of the light bar.

With except to being really up close to something ... like tight track work ... but to be honest i turn the pencils OFF in those circumstances anyway as they're simply not relevant in super tight (aka low range tight turns type stuff).

Caveat : im no expert, i just do a LOT of country driving at night and am anal about my lighitng.

[obiee]

thanks guys
yeh im up for a new pair of driving lights i have a greatwhite light bar and was looking
at getting a pair of 170 striker lightforce

[Qwerty]

Have got the combo spreader beam on one of the pencils, mainly to reduce the intensity of the pencisl to match the lightbar (also throws an almost 160 degree wide "wedge" of light at hip level (ie the very sides of the road)

[Qwerty]

thanks guys
yeh im up for a new pair of driving lights i have a greatwhite light bar and was looking
at getting a pair of 170 striker lightforce

170's arent as bright as say the 240 or 240HID ... so you shouldnt have any issues with intensity mismatch.

It's never a case of too much light being a bad thing ... just have to "match' the intensities, or you trick your brain into tunnel vision which defeats the purpose. (same thing happens if you overpower your normal low and high beams with HID kids ... too much forefield lighting actually works against you on a countr drive, because it messes with your visual acuity ... but it makes you feel good thinking there's all this light around the front of the car ... sot he driver thinks all is well ... ).

[obiee]

thanks
yeh i would like to go with the 240 but where my lightbar is mounted i can only get 190 max so the 170 strikers will have to do

[Qwerty]

have fun

make sure you align them really well on a dark country road somewhere.

I find its best to have two spheres side by side (either side of road) ... that meet in middle ... rather than one central ball of light (more intense brightless, bit further reach)

seems to be the 100 - 500m zone that matters most.

To each their own though!

[fnqpilot]

Trying to work out a way to mount a led light bar in behind the upper or lower grill on a 2013 sr5. Not really keen on putting a bullbar on it so that is my only option. Lower grill at the bottom of the bumper might be to low for the light bar? Anyone seen them mounted behind the grill before or have any recommendations?

[10 luxxxx]

How about a nudge bar mate I think behind the grill might not work too well. Unless you change your style of grill. I have seen a member mount spotties behind the grill but it was a trd grill from memory.

[GazaShaggy]

Has anyone fitted a light bar into the front slot on the arb bullbars? If so which brand of light bar and some photos if possible. Cheers

I was riding through Renmark the other weekend when I saw an Amarok with this done looked neat one bar the full length I'm disappointed now I didn't chase him down (he was going the other way) but I've now fitted a 30" 10w Cree bar anyway, pics in build.

[pilko4x4]

After reading through here I'm down to 2 options. I want a single row 30 inch. Newpro tech or aurora. Who can give me advice on which way to go.

[ktm300]

After reading through here I'm down to 2 options. I want a single row 30 inch. Newpro tech or aurora. Who can give me advice on which way to go.

Dont forget to check out ebay ,,, I have a rigid industries light bar and one from ebay . And the one from ebay is just as good ... also alot cheaper

[aandy]

After reading through here I'm down to 2 options. I want a single row 30 inch. Newpro tech or aurora. Who can give me advice on which way to go.

I am not sure if there is any difference between aurora and new pro tech, they sure look the same.

I have a 20" newprotech single row, its brilliant, been to hell and back, fully submerged etc... hasn't missed a beat.

Mounted:



Pressure tested.........

[pilko4x4]

Yeah they possibly are the same. I'm wanting them or similar for there low profiles as I'm mounting under a roof rack and space is tight. As with the eBay cheaper ones is there any that are worth looking at.

[timothyg]

Just installed rigid q2 driving+hyperspot. Holy heck its wide and light throw quite a distance

[ktm300]

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