Donk74
Full Access Member
AN ENGINEERS PLEA
I realize I probably can’t go wrong with any of the LED light bars our FRF vendors offer so please limit responses to facts, data and personal experience. No name calling!!! Unless of coarse it aimed at any of the usual suspects like nosbusa, Bird or 6.2 then it OK.
So I’ve started talking with Jarrett & Corey about getting one of their Raceline bumpers setup for my Rap. In addition to the mounting for a ~20” bar below the main horizontal tube I’m adding a short top hoop that will accommodate something like a 40” bar. I also plan to add a pair of Outlaw Raptor hood light mounts with Spot HIDs (something like the Vision X 4500 or Baja Designs Fuego).
As a Midwestern boy with dreams of going to play in the desert, I anticipate needed a broad spectrum of light (lol BAD pun intended). I’m frequently up north playing on twisty dirt/gravel trails through the woods at relatively high speeds (30 – 40 mph) So I need a really wide light pattern with lots of light that has a bit a distance to it. I’ve also been known to go flying through the occasional field at “highway like speeds”. So I’d like as much distance as I can get to avoid nose diving into the culvert I didn’t see till it was too late.
Basically I want to turn night into day in front of my Raptor without making the front end look like I stoled a set of lights from the local football stadium.
Thus far I’ve been looking at the OnX from Baja Design, the Xmitter Xtreme from Vision X and the E-Series from Rigid Industries. On paper the Xtreme puts out the most lumen but while I don’t know shit about lighting I know there is a whole lot more to it than the theoretical total lumen output. I have to believe how and were the light is distributed will be just as important to me, so I like the mixed beam options of the E-series and the OnX.
What do you all think? Any real world comparisons of these lights? For those of you that own one or the other or better yet light from multiple manufacturers do you have a preference?
Enlighten Me
I realize I probably can’t go wrong with any of the LED light bars our FRF vendors offer so please limit responses to facts, data and personal experience. No name calling!!! Unless of coarse it aimed at any of the usual suspects like nosbusa, Bird or 6.2 then it OK.
So I’ve started talking with Jarrett & Corey about getting one of their Raceline bumpers setup for my Rap. In addition to the mounting for a ~20” bar below the main horizontal tube I’m adding a short top hoop that will accommodate something like a 40” bar. I also plan to add a pair of Outlaw Raptor hood light mounts with Spot HIDs (something like the Vision X 4500 or Baja Designs Fuego).
As a Midwestern boy with dreams of going to play in the desert, I anticipate needed a broad spectrum of light (lol BAD pun intended). I’m frequently up north playing on twisty dirt/gravel trails through the woods at relatively high speeds (30 – 40 mph) So I need a really wide light pattern with lots of light that has a bit a distance to it. I’ve also been known to go flying through the occasional field at “highway like speeds”. So I’d like as much distance as I can get to avoid nose diving into the culvert I didn’t see till it was too late.
Basically I want to turn night into day in front of my Raptor without making the front end look like I stoled a set of lights from the local football stadium.
Thus far I’ve been looking at the OnX from Baja Design, the Xmitter Xtreme from Vision X and the E-Series from Rigid Industries. On paper the Xtreme puts out the most lumen but while I don’t know shit about lighting I know there is a whole lot more to it than the theoretical total lumen output. I have to believe how and were the light is distributed will be just as important to me, so I like the mixed beam options of the E-series and the OnX.
What do you all think? Any real world comparisons of these lights? For those of you that own one or the other or better yet light from multiple manufacturers do you have a preference?
Enlighten Me