Thread: LED Light Bars....Special offer

The light bars have finally arrived. I'll be in contact shortly with all who placed an order.

Cheers, Murray

If you have any spare - let me know as i am interested.
Thanks

Originally Posted by GMK Disco2

If you have any spare - let me know as i am interested.
Thanks

I've got a spare 180W Combo, 120W Combo, or 120W Spot at the moment.

Cheers, Murray

I havent forgotten Murray I'll get the $ for my 240 combo to you soon.

Originally Posted by disco_disco

Just offering some advice to others mate. But as you said you get what you pay for.

I would much rather Epistar over CREE, cree is still very new to the LED world, and while they have higher Watt ratings there lumens per what i do not believe to be as high. not to mention the extra heat the CREE's generate as waste.

in my )adimitedly limited) experience with multiple LED light bars of diff brands and also with high end Marine LED lighting the CREE falls short of the hype they get, the PAR readings are generaly higher with some of the older more trusted yet 'lower power' lights. I have both cree and epistar LED light bars and find the lower power epistar to be a better light, same with my Marine fish tank LED lights.

If you want to talk high output an efficiency with quality, I would be going Osram over Cree. .

my 0.2c

also when is the next run of lights? my 42" bar lense has cracked again (my fault for replacing with cheap window glass) might be after a 50" single row fo some sort?

Leroy

oh would also rate bridgelux up there also, but bottom line, ignore the hype about CREE being the best, a 10W LED is not the end all be all, a 5W with a better lense is what you should be after, (though credit where credit is due the CREE lenses are pretty good with a wide variaety of angle's availible [also fit OSRAM emmiters ] )

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also forgot to mention, out of two 120W light bars, one with CREE 5W emitters (i know its not the CREE 10W) and one with bridgelux 5W emitters, the CREE light sucked 165W from my test power supply and the bridgelux powered bar 130W I put this down the the efficiency of the driver in the lights over the emitters themselves,(light output from the two bars was pretty well identicle both used lens's and no reflectors, not sure on the angle of the lens which i assume would be more the light difference i saw over the emitters themself) this is the only thing I would be worried about in the cheaper bars, is not the emitters themselves, as to be honest by above ranting aside, the emitter is one part of a 3-5 part sytem, power source,driver,emitter,lens,reflector (some bars have lenses per emitter, some have reflectors. the lenses work much better with LEDS's over a simple lenseles reflector)

Originally Posted by Leroy_Riding

I would much rather Epistar over CREE, cree is still very new to the LED world, and while they have higher Watt ratings there lumens per what i do not believe to be as high. not to mention the extra heat the CREE's generate as waste.

in my )adimitedly limited) experience with multiple LED light bars of diff brands and also with high end Marine LED lighting the CREE falls short of the hype they get, the PAR readings are generaly higher with some of the older more trusted yet 'lower power' lights. I have both cree and epistar LED light bars and find the lower power epistar to be a better light, same with my Marine fish tank LED lights.

If you want to talk high output an efficiency with quality, I would be going Osram over Cree. .

my 0.2c

also when is the next run of lights? my 42" bar lense has cracked again (my fault for replacing with cheap window glass) might be after a 50" single row fo some sort?

Leroy

oh would also rate bridgelux up there also, but bottom line, ignore the hype about CREE being the best, a 10W LED is not the end all be all, a 5W with a better lense is what you should be after, (though credit where credit is due the CREE lenses are pretty good with a wide variaety of angle's availible [also fit OSRAM emmiters ] )

edit:

also forgot to mention, out of two 120W light bars, one with CREE 5W emitters (i know its not the CREE 10W) and one with bridgelux 5W emitters, the CREE light sucked 165W from my test power supply and the bridgelux powered bar 130W I put this down the the efficiency of the driver in the lights over the emitters themselves,(light output from the two bars was pretty well identicle both used lens's and no reflectors, not sure on the angle of the lens which i assume would be more the light difference i saw over the emitters themself) this is the only thing I would be worried about in the cheaper bars, is not the emitters themselves, as to be honest by above ranting aside, the emitter is one part of a 3-5 part sytem, power source,driver,emitter,lens,reflector (some bars have lenses per emitter, some have reflectors. the lenses work much better with LEDS's over a simple lenseles reflector)

You probably just dumbed it down, and I still don't get it.
You have definately complicated my decision making process now.

Cheers

Originally Posted by voltron

You probably just dumbed it down, and I still don't get it.
You have definately complicated my decision making process now.

Cheers

The way I see it, just because a product is claimed to contain 'Cree' LEDs, doesn't necessarily mean it's better than anything else. As mentioned earlier, some LEDs use one Cree component along with other cheaper components, then they claim it is 'Cree' because Cree is a bit of a buzz word when it comes to LED products.
It's no different to someone buying a Toyota because Toyota's massive advertising budget convinces them that they are the best, but in reality there are plenty of equivalent or better products out there.
Don't look too hard at the claimed figures/specs. A $1000 Cree light bar (genuine Cree) will obviously be better than a $420 light bar of the same specs, but I guarantee there's not $580 worth of difference, you will still be impressed with the output of the cheaper light.

Cheers, Murray

Mine arrived today - now I just need a roof bar to mount it on... and some wiring... and......