LED Driving Lights - Quick straw poll ?

[jamieprado Member Find all posts View Profile Close jamieprado]

IMHO the Rigid E2 Series LED 20" - Driving light is the pick of the bunch.

http://shop.snakeracing.com.au/20-e2...t-bar-driving/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4uAEUWqxww

[Smithy - 120 D4D Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Smithy - 120 D4D]

Great price, I got quoted a whole lot more for them. Great units.

Has anybody got the Lightforce LED 215's on a 120 series with a Toyota Alloy bar?

I have decided these are the lights I want (they seem superior to the ARB option), but the fit will be tight, plus the Toyota bar has a moulded mounting point for central post mounting of lights, not the flat mounting bracket that Lightforce and ARB are doing with their LEDs.

I need to know how they will fit.

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Smithy
not sure about the brackets but check out this video of the lightforce 215 1st gen lights.
https://youtu.be/df7BpGd4Ijo

the article is here
http://www.outbacktravelaustralia.co...lights-on-test

Cheers
Robert

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Has anybody got the Lightforce LED 215's on a 120 series with a Toyota Alloy bar?

I have decided these are the lights I want (they seem superior to the ARB option), but the fit will be tight, plus the Toyota bar has a moulded mounting point for central post mounting of lights, not the flat mounting bracket that Lightforce and ARB are doing with their LEDs.

I need to know how they will fit.

I made some brackets for the 185W LED lights to fit on the Sovereign bar. The top of the plate to the top tube is a short to fit the light on it's supplied bracket.

[Piney Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Piney]

I bought Stedi LEDs on eBay. Sure they're cheap but for how often I'll need them I'm very happy. And who needs/wants to see 500 metres down the road.

[Smithy - 120 D4D Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Smithy - 120 D4D]

Thanks guys. I'll do a bit more research.

Piney - those Stedi lights look reasonable - how solid is the mounting bracket from movement? The soverign bar shakes a fair bit on rough roads, and the last think I want is for the lights to droop... They don't appear to have a locking screw to secure them in place, other than the single bolt?

[SandStorm.au Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close SandStorm.au]

I run a pair of fairly cheap HID spotties in conjunction with an LED bar. Whilst the ARB and Lightforce LED options pack an impressive punch, they are essentially LED floodlights. LED's just don't offer the same distance compared to HID lamps, even with some of the advanced focusing systems around these days.
IMHO a combo of HID and LED is the best for my application (long distance night driving & offroad work). If I wasn't needing something that lights up roo's and melts bitumen at over 1000m, I would probably go an all-LED setup.

Cheers,
SandStorm

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I'm replacing a pair of Bushranger Nighthawk HIDs with LEDS, as the Bushrangers are falling apart (rivets are slogged out of the housing due to rough road driving, and the amount the Toyota Sovereign bar moves around in those conditions. The LED lights coming out now seem to be well constructed in the housings, which is a good thing.

The other benefit of LEDs is that there is no warm-up time, the light is instant.

[Piney Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Piney]

To be honest they haven't been on rough or corrugated roads yet but, the mounting system appears similar to others.

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Update: I ended up buying a 20" single row just released Lightforce light bar ($465 from ORE). About 100W. First impressions out of the box - quality. Solid feel, solid mounting brackets, full IP19 waterproof. Just screams quality. Fitted last week and used a little bit down at Dwellingup on the weekend. Certainly made a difference but i don't think the short winding rounds made the best of it. I would say effective range about 200-330m with fall off to 400m.

Wont get a chance to test it properly until Shark Bay in September and that will be an excellent spot to test it out with wide open roads and hopefully, pitch black nights.

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What made you decide on the light bar over the spotties?

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IP19?????

[Lucyem Lurker Find all posts View Profile Close Lucyem]

I have a set of lightforce 215's going on tomorrow morning. Ive got a combination of spot and combo. Im itching to fire them up tomorrow night

[Darran K Member Find all posts View Profile Close Darran K]

who needs/wants to see 500 metres down the road.

Serious? Do you know how much ground you cover when traveling at 100kmh?

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Serious? Do you know how much ground you cover when traveling at 100kmh?

Yes, and it isn't 500m assuming you are talking about reaction and stopping time.

Assume the Prado with decent tyres and suspension stops in 60m from 100kph (my GTS stops in just over 30) and it takes you 5 seconds to react...

100kph is 28 metres per second. So in 5 seconds you travel 140 metres plus the 60 metres you need to stop is 200 metres. In real life your reaction time will be much less, perhaps under 2 seconds and the stopping distance on bitumen is more like 50 metres. So around 100 metres all up. More on gravel obviously. More still if you are asleep.