Thread: Recomendations on lighting. Lightbar or Spotties

Look up Unsealed 4x4 magazine (ts free!)
They had a great write up on various lighting solutions in a recent edition.
I have the big ARB Intensities on my 110.
Ken

I have read that spots are best for long distance but LED bars are better for mid distance and spread. Do people agree?

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I run both in LED. I find LED provides the best spread but does sacrifice distance. LED technology is getting better all the time, is cheap and I rarely need the distance a HID spot would provide. I find the led much better in every day life. Lightbar is 43000 Lumen Osram and Spotties are 9000 Lumen Cree.

LED light bars are only going to throw a good distance if their optics are well made. Then there's the issue of radio interference which I have experienced with some cheapies. These ones look like they may be worth investigating:

80W Spot Beam 18 Inch Light BAR 8 X 10W Cree XML LED'S NO Radio Interference | eBay

And they're being sold by a local seller with an excellent handle...

One thing I will say - if the mounts on the bullbar are just tabs and not web reinforced, then they will be likely to break off.
LED lights tend to be heavy relative to normal spots etc, and the mounts don't like lots of corrugations.


Martyn

Originally Posted by Bushie

One thing I will say - if the mounts on the bullbar are just tabs and not web reinforced, then they will be likely to break off. LED lights tend to be heavy relative to normal spots etc, and the mounts don't like lots of corrugations. Martyn

Martyn thanks for the heads up, it's an ARB bar so the tabs have reinforcing ✅

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I originally bought some ARB Intensity clones (225w Cree) from a store in Melbourne. $600, they were super powerful, but didnt fit my ARB bull bar properly, i.e. they protruded too much. I wanted my lights inside the protection of the bar, not out the front.

I returned them for some other LED spots, a little smaller and a little less powerful, 185W Cree, cost $300.
They fitted well within the bullbar, they have a cover to diffuse the beams, i.e. to make them floods. But without the covers, they are in between lights, i.e. they have a fair bit of distance and a bit of spread as well. They are actually pretty good lights well made and come with a decent loom. I was pretty impressed with them, had them on the car for a few weeks.

What I didnt like about them was the LED light itself.
Too me, I dont like the "white" light. It tends to reflect of all the signs. Its bloody bright though.

I took them off and have replaced them with 150W Fyrlts. They dont look as bright as the LED's, but I reckon they work better.

Im selling the LED's whenever I get around to sticking them on ebay.
Although the intent of this reply is to provide information, pm me if you want the led's cheap.