LED HID Light Bar or Regular pair of off-road lights?

JSAN · **Joined:** Tue Jan 24, 2012 7:13 pm **Posts:** 27

Winter's coming. I had previously decided to purchase Hella's HID off road lights at around $900/pair.

Now that I have seen some of the videos of these LED Lightbars that put out 16,000 lu of brightness, I'm leaning towards getting a 20" bar.

Anyone here installed one of these or has any experience with them?

https://www.rigidindustries.com/category-s/129.htm

http://www.theretrofitsource.com/produc ... s_id=19516

NoQuota · **Posted:** Fri Sep 21, 2012 11:46 pm

I'm saving up for an LED light bar also, don't rule out vision x
http://www.visionxusa.com/LED/c1/index.html

tjkj2002 · **Posted:** Sat Sep 22, 2012 12:04 am

I answered your post on another board but will again here.......

No experiance with Rigid LED's but I do with Vision X's LED's.

Hella 9007's headlamp bulbs on high..............

Vision X's Patriot 35 degree lightbar...............

Vision X's 20' 20 degree EVO Prime lightbar.............

KC HID 50watt HID's.............

Now those pics are taken when I was pointed nose down and the lights are not aimed correctly besides the KC HID's.

Daylight mounted pics.............

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Ted15 · **Posted:** Sat Sep 22, 2012 10:16 am

I really like my rigid dually's, I bought another set of spots and plan on getting a pair of floods for the winch mounts. I've looked at a bunch but it seems that all of the higher quality lights are pretty close (led) and the draw on the battery is very low. Lumens per watt is probably the best way to compare light output from the brands along with distance. That's why I chose the duallys, along with the cost of around $200.00 for a pair with the brackets and wire harness. The larger led light bars blow them away though. 4 Wheel Parts had a pair of HID's on display and the beam was actually warm. They were brighter than anything I'd seen but the draw on the battery was kinda high. I don't remember any of the details though, sorry but the specs are online. The data is confusing sometimes, that's no accident. Remember to compare lumens per watt and look at the beam distance and shape. If they don't list the lumens then either ask or leave it alone, there's probably a reason they won't tell you. :2cents:

I hope this helps but if you've been shopping for lights you probably knew that anyway. That was the advice I was given, I just figured I'd pass it along.

Ted15 · **Posted:** Sat Sep 22, 2012 10:19 am

Nice setup TJKJ, do you have any up top? Not that you'd need them.

musclezmarinara · **Posted:** Sun Sep 23, 2012 7:14 pm

I want to pick up the stupidly expensive mopar push bar with piaa lamps.

lostboy · **Posted:** Mon Sep 24, 2012 12:31 pm

musclezmarinara wrote:

I want to pick up the stupidly expensive mopar push bar with piaa lamps.

link?

What is the maximum length of light bar that can be put on the roof of the kk? I'm too lazy to go out and measure! :mrgreen:

tjkj2002 · **Posted:** Mon Sep 24, 2012 7:54 pm

lostboy wrote:

What is the maximum length of light bar that can be put on the roof of the kk? I'm too lazy to go out and measure! :mrgreen:

Most likely in the 40"-42" range.Just don't cheap out and get a good brand that has thermal heat managment then the LED's will have no issues reaching there 50,000+ hour lifespan which is 25 times longer then the high end(not fleabay or ddm HID bulbs) HID bulbs will last.

JSAN · **Joined:** Tue Jan 24, 2012 7:13 pm **Posts:** 27

tjkj2002 wrote:

I answered your post on another board but will again here.......

No experiance with Rigid LED's but I do with Vision X's LED's.

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That Jeep looks... happy. Thanks for the pics man

Ted15 wrote:

I really like my rigid dually's, I bought another set of spots and plan on getting a pair of floods for the winch mounts. I've looked at a bunch but it seems that all of the higher quality lights are pretty close (led) and the draw on the battery is very low. Lumens per watt is probably the best way to compare light output from the brands along with distance. That's why I chose the duallys, along with the cost of around $200.00 for a pair with the brackets and wire harness. The larger led light bars blow them away though. 4 Wheel Parts had a pair of HID's on display and the beam was actually warm. They were brighter than anything I'd seen but the draw on the battery was kinda high. I don't remember any of the details though, sorry but the specs are online. The data is confusing sometimes, that's no accident. Remember to compare lumens per watt and look at the beam distance and shape. If they don't list the lumens then either ask or leave it alone, there's probably a reason they won't tell you. :2cents:

I hope this helps but if you've been shopping for lights you probably knew that anyway. That was the advice I was given, I just figured I'd pass it along.

I looked at Rigid Duallys, and then I thought about putting just a 20" LED bar infront of the grill. The reason I don't want to go with duallys now is because I have made up my mind to do a projector retrofit. So I will have two Bixenon 5000K lights plus a 20" LED bar.

I sent a PM to Mike08Liberty, he has already done a projector retrofit, hopefully he'll reply back with some tips on how to tackle this project.

Bmxer524 · **Posted:** Tue Sep 25, 2012 1:16 am

This might help you out with the retrofit as well. viewtopic.php?t=66886

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