LED Light Bars and Old School Lighting

[Madcowranch]

Behind the grill, wow, I hadn't thought about that. Did you experience much light loss due to the grill and do you have any pictures of your mounting brackets?

Look here for some pic's I took... http://www.fordraptorforum.com/f11/rigid-40-installed-536/

 

[peppercorn]

Look here for some pic's I took... http://www.fordraptorforum.com/f11/rigid-40-installed-536/

Hey those are great, thanks a lot.
I see your original post was in October, after making it through the shortest day of the year how do you feel about the lights now? Would you prefer them out in front of the grill, ie on a bar or do you have any other thoughts on them given time and experience?
Thanks

 

[SilverBolt]

I like the LED concept but I will have to see it in person before I drop that kind of dough. Behind the grill looks like it really ditorts the light pattern.

 

[Lead Foot]

I have the 40" Rigid... hey, I like the way that sounds...

LOL I guess so at 40+ years of age anything Ridgid sounds good no matter what it's length is hahahahaaaaaaaaa

 

[bfr]

I would youtube both rigid and vision x and see what real testing has been done. Spec sheets are one thing, real testing is another.

I have looked high and low and there has been no "real testing". Certainly not on Youtube (or it has been hidden really well or not indexed). And Googling comes up with some comparisons but nothing current where the products we care about are looked at side by side.

Real testing would be side by side or duplicate drive testing with still cameras or DV's with locked white balance, same conditions, etc. It would compare the best product from each manufacturer or products in the same price range or products with similar element count or wattage or length, or function/use, etc.

Ideally I'd just like to see the light bars that are used on the current ADD and SDHQ bumpers honestly compared.

So as far as I can tell we're talking about:

40" Vision X Reflex LED bar (22 10 watt LEDs total, mix of 4-35 degree LEDs on the edges and 18-10 degree LEDs in the middle positions) List $1600 ?

39" Vision X Evo Prime LED bar (24 10 watt LEDs total, mix of 4-40 degree LEDs on the edges and 20-20 degree LEDs in the middle positions) List $1970 ?

40" Rigid "E" Series LED bar (80 LEDs total, 195 watts total, LEDs are grouped in sets of 4. outside 4" on each side are flood pattern, inside 32" are pencil beam) List $1300 ?

The Rigid bars are cool as with the higher number of elements they really fill the enclosures edge to edge. The Vision X look more like a collection of round lights. Not sure I like it as much. Superior performance would certainly tip the scales.

 

[Madcowranch]

Hey those are great, thanks a lot.
I see your original post was in October, after making it through the shortest day of the year how do you feel about the lights now? Would you prefer them out in front of the grill, ie on a bar or do you have any other thoughts on them given time and experience?
Thanks

I really prefer the stealth look. And they still throw a tremendous amount of light downrange.

LOL I guess so at 40+ years of age anything Ridgid sounds good no matter what it's length is hahahahaaaaaaaaa

I hear that's the case sometimes.Ha!

 

[Addictive Desert Designs]

Go to youtube.com and look up Rigid Industries E-series testing. There are a ton of Rigid video's to look at. Check it out.

 

[Addictive Desert Designs]

I haven't seen any other lights be tested that way. That's real test, not some spec sheet.

 

[Addictive Desert Designs]

also youtube Rigid Industries E-series ballistic testing, then water testing. Who else tests like this??? I love it.

 

[SDHQ]

I haven't seen any other lights be tested that way. That's real test, not some spec sheet.

also youtube Rigid Industries E-series ballistic testing, then water testing. Who else tests like this??? I love it.

Maybe you missed the IP-68 & IP-67 rating of the Vision X lights when it comes to waterproofing. Those ratings are what the military/nasa and such go by, unfortunately when Nasa calls and wants led's for their lunar rover they don't go by what a youtube video shows.. LOL