Lighting My Way Home.

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Originally Posted by BMKal

I disagree with this Brian.

Was told this many years ago (when I was running Cibie Super Oscars). Have tried it a couple of times with different pencil beam lights, and I find that it gives a poorer field of vision, and can be very annoying at times (when the two beams converge and then separate again).

I've always preferred aiming two pencil beams parallel to each other, straight up the road.

I have never understood the preference for pencil beams, the Super Oscars (spread) have a nominal range of 1800 m and the Super Oscar Spot, 2900 m, and that's based on the old H4 bulb, not 75w HID:twisted:

So i am fitting the Spreads, (purchased new recently for $700)
And i cant see LED coming close to either of those distances.

Try brightlightautoparts I bought a pair of their 160watt 9 inch spotties. Great price and great units

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Originally Posted by AndyG

I have never understood the preference for pencil beams, the Super Oscars (spread) have a nominal range of 1800 m and the Super Oscar Spot, 2900 m, and that's based on the old H4 bulb, not 75w HID:twisted:

So i am fitting the Spreads, (purchased new recently for $700)
And i cant see LED coming close to either of those distances.

Depends on where you're driving. ;)

I'm sure that long range spots wouldn't be of much use up where you are.

A while back, I was in Tassie in a work Prado with a couple of HID converted Hella Rallye 4000 spots - they were an absolute pain in the butt and not at all suitable for the terrain.

But driving across the Nullarbor, or between Kalgoorlie & Perth, different story.

And you're right about LED not coming close to the distance - there's not a LED light on the market that's capable of coming even close to the range of a decent set of spots (or the Cibie Super Oscar spreads). Hell, even the comparatively cheap Britax X-Ray Vision HID spots that I'm running at the moment will out perform any LED light over distance - the Hella Predators that I've got sitting in my shed will completely blitz an LED over distance. But in the area that a decent LED light does light up (in my experience, up to about 300 metres) - they do it so much better than ANY conventional driving light, whether Halogen or HID.

I'll eventually replace my missing LED bar, though I'm still undecided on what with. Loved the Baja Designs unit, but very expensive to buy - so unless I can get onto another "good deal" through work (I never paid anywhere near the asking price for the first one) - think I'll be looking for something different.

Lionel, if you think the Baja "Stealth" is expensive - have a look at the new Baja "OnX". Would want to be something very special for the price that they're asking for them (about double the price of a similar length Stealth). Having used the Stealth, I really can't imagine something the same size putting out double the light of one of them. Would love to try one, but won't be forking out that sort of cash. :o

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