Wednesday, Jun 26, 2013 at 23:56
Roos were the least thing we wanted to hit coming and going to Alice..... walking Mc Donalds outweighed roos 30 to 1.
Light bars are OK for slow speed driving but offer very little at higher speeds.
The biggest problem with LED lighting is the light doesn't scatter around objects like HID and filament lighting.
Light bar put out big light close up for slow speed but when it comes to usable light; light bars are not that good for higher speeds.
Good quality leading edge light bars put out a usable output for about 100-150m (remember usable), at 100Kph you travel at 95m per 3 seconds.... if you did see something you have 3-5 seconds to react and avoid contact..... the Hella's and Lightforces will give you about 450-700m of good usable light or about 15-22 seconds to react.
We can pick stuff out at about 700m + with the Hella's.... police at 1000m+.
We have played around with LED light bars a far bit over the last 3 years, we currently have VisionX Evo Prime 20 x 10w bar with a combination of 20 and 40 deg reflectors (long range and spread) mounted on our roof rack...... the reason we run them is for slow speed 4wdriving and to show customers that they are not as good as the magazines make out them to be.
The light bar output close up is fantastic up to about 130m in distance and about 25m either side...... One spread and one spot Hella HID puts out the same to the sides and 10 times the distance with an overall broader more usable beam.
If you spend good money on a set of Hella 1387 and 1388 High Boost iX XGD HID lights you would be amazed OR do what we are changing to.... Lightforce 70w XGT with combo filters.
We have always been a Hella oriented business but after playing around with the 70w HID lightforces for a customer we were very impressed...... we are fitting a set to our 200 series this week to replace to above mentioned Hella's.
Both the above light would provide more light then you need, the Hella's suit more vehicles due to their size.... the Lightforces are BIG.
HID is still the way to go for
driving lights.
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