Thread: Which driving lights should I buy for my dad? Off road use. Lightforce, Hella, etc?

Originally Posted by Mellow Yellow

I'm going Fyrlyts - not at all happy with my Hellas.

Your comment on a combination of LED bar and Fyrlyts sounds right to me. Any recommendations on lightbars?

Thanks.

Depends on where you want to mount it / what size / how much you want to spend.

I'm running a 40 inch Baja Designs Stealth LED Bar tucked up under the roofrack. Together with a pair of Hella Predators, it's a bloody brilliant combination - if a bit on the glary side when there's a lot of road signs around.

Fortunately there's not too many road signs on the side of the road between Perth and Kalgoorlie once you get away from the metropolitan area, but I've got the LED bar and the HID's individually switched on the console as well as linked to hi beam, so I can turn off whatever I want in areas where there are a few signs.

Finally got to use my new FYRLYT's tonight. I'm happy VERY HAPPY

Gary

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Try the FYRLYTs before you get a bar, I think you'll find you don't need any other lights.

Totally different type of lighting..

Fyrlyts for distance / speed

LEDs for twisty, and offroad....

Imagine if you had a set of these

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w351EQ5f6F0]FYRLYT[/ame]

Now you're talking

Just finished installing mine. It's not dark yet so can't properly test them. Also I live inner city so it might be tricky giving them a real test!



They look great on a Disco!

I suspect it would look even better if I cleaned it.

Looks good

As I've said before..

Make sure you use decent cable.

4mm minimum (actual not Auto) and 6mm preferred.

Voltage drop is the single biggest killer...

And use 2 relays if you can, 1 per light.....

Are you saying auto wire is measured different? When you say 6mm, I assume you mean 6mm2? Pretty sure what I used is 6mm2. I can say for sure that it's slightly larger than the leads off the back of the lights.... (Looking at the core, not just outside).

I will do a check to see what voltage drop I'm getting, but I only used 1x40A relay.

Also, after doing all the wiring myself I would recommend soldering everything or buy a pre-made wire kit (assuming they are decent quality). I upgraded my crimping tool and bought the best quality connectors I could find for 6mm cable and to be honest, even the best crimped connecters appear to be average at best connection quality - compared to solder anyway. I'm a little disappointed in the result to be honest, but it's a lesson for next time anyway... (Or another job to re-wire and solder.)

As landygrl knows, I'm slowing making a case to buy a Defender within a few years, so I can apply all my learnings from the Disco then.

Yes 6mm2 core...

Auto includes to insulation diameter

I used soldered connections, and Powerpoles to join everything up....

Having said that - My lights draw >22 amps each when running