SoCalMonty
Explorer
Can't stand the blue tinted lights...it washes out on black top and disapppears. I'd rather have the yellow tint of halogen.
Yes; do more research.Good information here and, as I suspected, there is more to this conversation than I imagined. I was leaning toward the new ARB Intensity LED lights, but may steer back toward the Lightforce HID lights instead. I need to do more research.
Mount them "cross-eyed" to work best as driving lights.The Hella lights are intriguing and I will look into those as well. I plan to mount them on my bumper (primary reason I mounted up the bumper was to have a platform to install lights). Is there anything I need to be aware of with having the lights out front and that close together? I've seen many other rigs that were set up this way and hadn't considered that it might create issues.
take Hilldweller's advise...i did, and couldn't be more pleased. the hella 4000 euro beam with the 100w bulbs flat out rock.
I drive a lot of forestry roads, and remote northern BC to Alaska highways. The hardest thing is your eyes adjusting when you turn the lights off due to oncoming traffic.
Well, excess is best.... :ylsmoke:This is somewhere in the neighborhood of $225 worth of kit as opposed to $1000 or $1500 for what I was looking at, so the next question (or assumption) is that more lights = better visibility. So, would it be worth putting another two or four of these on top of the vehicle in addition to the ones on the bull bar?
Or you could buy a Grand Cherokee, new harness and some HIR low/high bulbs....
Your lights are incredible.
You'll be at the Elk Watch, right?
We can put your Grand next to Rob's 60 and have the ultimate headlight shoot-out. He has the Hella 90mm HID projectors and has more raw power in theory. But we'll see.
Your bulbs are rated at a particular wattage --- that you're exceeding handily with the harness.
For my Hummer H3: I hvae the Sylvania XTRA vision standard halogen bulbs 3500K. Any reason to choose the whiter lights, Xenon or LED bulbs that cost way more? Would I gain anything by LED bulbs in my fog lights? Or shoudl I put a higher watt bulb in my fogs?
Yes; do more research.
Mount them "cross-eyed" to work best as driving lights.
Scheinwerfermann said:With crosseye, you get some distance punch on/above the road, like the old "finger of light" that used to be advertised back when a certain type of sealed-beam headlamp came on the market, and your beams diverge to show the roadsides and curves starting at a usefully distant range in front of the vehicle. With walleye, you don't get distance punch and the beams diverge right at the vehicle, which means you're wasting light on areas too close to the car to be relevant once you're above about 30 mph.