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Initial Testing To verify that everything worked properly and to learn how the various options and controls work, I connected everything on the floor of a spare room and powered the system with my benchtop power supply. They lit up right away when I pressed the "On" button on the remote...

The control unit has power connections and two feeds for the LEDs - presumably one feed for one side of the vehicle and one feed for the other. Each LED unit has two connections; as I said they're intended to be daisy-chained together, one after the other. The lights come with mounting...

Review: Auxbeam Rock/Underglow Lights I spent some time with my friends at Auxbeam last November at the SEMA Show and one of the new products they had on display was a set of rock/underglow lights. Lighting up the road below the Jeep with lots of colors and effects isn't really my style, but...

The traffic you were in was 3 1/2 miles long, I clocked it. Glad I was going the other way. This is our last trip north to Elmira. The movers arrived yesterday and finished the packing, today they'll start loading. The move is going so quickly because of all the trips I've made since...

Since we took possession of the new to us 200-year old house in January, I've made at least one trip per week transporting things from the old house to the new place. Most of these trips have been with the JKU but plenty of them were with the LJ or the pickup, depending on what I needed to...

Dan, I don't disagree, but my use of the extra space is more about space management than extra payload. When in expedition mode, I like to keep lesser-used/lighter things in the box on the roof than cluttering up the too-small cabin. About being under-sprung, I definitely agree with that...

I find the extra space very useful when I have the RTT on top. In this LJ photo I've got a plastic bin mounted on the rack extension and I store lightweight items in the box. The plastic box worked out very well, so I got a larger but still lightweight aluminum box that's just about the full...

Wouldn't the same reasoning apply to the Land Rovers as well?

Why is it that there are no racks on Jeeps that overhang the windshield? I think they can be very useful, providing more space for storage especially when you're carrying a roof top tent. A few Land Rover examples: A few years back I built an extension for my rack; on the LJ it overhangs...

From a post on the Indian Team-BHP forum, you might mistake this for a JL 2dr on first glance, but it's a current model Mahindra Thar. According to the post, it's in Deep Forest paint and equipped with Radar MT 35x12.50r20 tires, Fuel offroad wheels, Prad bumpers and Proman rock sliders...

A few years ago I was approached by a company that was interested in doing something very similar. I met with them at the SEMA Show and did a few concept images - the idea was to have a single continuous roof covering the cab and bed, and removable side panels much like those on my JKU and LJ...

The Auxbeam rock/underglow lights arrived today. In this photo I'm holding one of them up against the roof rack: I asked for 6 lights so that's what they sent. I'll start with trying two on the side and two in the back and see how well they might provide campsite illumination. Might not...

Moved all of my half doors to storage near the new house the other day. Pictured below are the JKU half doors. Left to right: rear doors, front doors, factory soft uppers with slider windows installed (two fronts and one rear - the rear was a single prototype), and a set of 4 hard uppers with...

I decided the new Auxbeam rock/underglow lights would be worthwhile testing as campsite lights mounted to the roof rack so I asked them to send me a set. They come in several sizes and quantities so I asked for six of the large size - I figure two on each side and two in the back. When they...

I got a promotional email the other day from LED lighting company Auxbeam, promoting their new "underglow" lights. This isn't something that I'm interested in adding to my Jeeps, but I have another idea - what if they were mounted on the side of the roof rack to serve as campsite lights...

I picked up a little design assignment at Overland West - a company selling a product called the "Thunderbox", a field toilet that collapses down to about 1" thick, approached Overland Outfitters about making a carry bag for the collapsed box so OO asked me if I would do a design. The...

I can't imagine why steps on the windshield hinges would be useful, except possibly for climbing fully up on the roof rack. This product was featured in recent issues of Land Rover Monthly and Land Rover Life: The magazine says they're handy for setting up your roof top tent, but I've never...

Why don't you post it here? I'm sure others would be interested.

When I'm at events like Overland West or SEMA I'm always looking for new and creative ideas. There are always more "me too" products at these shows, some of which might be improvements on similar products in the market, but I don't often find something completely different. I came across this...

Yesterday I stopped by the Ineos booth with a few Overland Outfitters products to see how they might fit in the Grenadier. The Ineos folks were very friendly and interested in the products so they seemed happy to let me try them out in the Grenadier. The first thing I tried was OO's Grab Bar...