Spotlights for canter?

[fg4oz]

Can anyone suggest a good set of spotties for a canter? I have an alloy bullbar and would also need brackets made.

 

[ColinTheCop]

I recently bought a set of Rigid Industries Duallys, they throw out a fantastic amount of light.

http://www.rigidindustries.com/

My previous fitted lights both suffered from broken lenses. Going by the abuse these can take, I'd hope they'd last a bit longer.


A quick google shows they are available in Oz from a company called Snakeracing.

 

[alan]

If you have plent of money lightforce are very good! or roolites are good value.

 

[Overland Hadley]

Personally I like the IPF brand, from Japan. But if you can, going with a LED setup like Rigid industries, is now the best way to go.

 

[SkiFreak]

On my truck I run a set of Narva Extreme lights.
I chose to have one spot and one spread beam light, but if I had the chance to make my choice again I would go with two spread beam lights. The mounts on these lights are very robust.
My budget did not stretch to HID lights, but if you can justify the cost, the HIDs definitely have a nicer light output than a halogen light, which mine are.
I agree with Alan that the Rigid Industry Dually's are a very nice light. The Dually D2 is even nicer! The price however is definitely on the high side, but that is the case for most high quality LED lights.

 

[blackduck]

Lightforce 240's
I prefer the XGT but ended up with the Blitz
HID's would be nice but at over a grand not what I consider value for money
plus they look good and lets face it isnt that why most of us spend heaps on huge driving lights !!

 

[fg4oz]

Thanks for your suggestions and photos. There's some great rigs out their. This is my first canter and really happy with it so far.

 

[1Engine]

I just upgraded my Old Rally 4000s with a HID kit off Ebay, One of the best light upgrades I have done for a while

 

[whatcharterboat]

Hi Dave,

Hella Rallye's with aftermarket HID kits...IIRC internal ballasts were a bit tight though. I like Skifreak's Narva's myself but Rallys would be my second choice......hey. Just an opinion too.

 

[alan]

Hey John have you tried any of the led light bars? I've got a sample at work i can send you to play with, you'll be impressed!

 

[fg4oz]

I like that set up! Are they half spot half spread?

Hi Dave,

Hella Rallye's with aftermarket HID kits...IIRC internal ballasts were a bit tight though. I like Skifreak's Narva's myself but Rallys would be my second choice......hey. Just an opinion too.
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[whatcharterboat]

Hi FG4OZ

Yep but that's a mater of opinion to I guess isn't it. It was what the owner supplied.

 

[whatcharterboat]

Hi Alan

Haven't yet even though we looked at them way before they hit the market.....I think it was early 2009 or earlier... the price was always out of the ballpark. I think they'd be great on a truck where the typical speeds are down on what a car would be and therefore distance isn't as important clarity...... I'd love to have a play. I'll send you a PM.. Thanks.

They were certainly popular at Overland ExPo . Here's some pics.










Note the LED round headlights too. Alan....do you know about these?? The first Jeep above in the pics had them too. I'll post some close ups in a minute.

 

[whatcharterboat]

These are Rigid's . Plenty of these there.



Must have a big charging system on this BM!!



Lots of trucks had them all round as general work lighting.



You could write a book about the technology in this truck......but anyway the lights were amazing. They just looked like standard remote pan/tilt floodlights like you'd find on a powerboat ( the black lights mounted up on the front peak) but they were fitted with FLIR cameras and there was an LCD monitor built into the rear mirror. Any wildlife just lights up at night.....even footprints!! These are still under development but might well be on the market one day.

 

[whatcharterboat]

Just fitted some HID kits to the headlights of my little car. Only 35w but very impressed particularly on low beam. Some of the Canters we build for the mines are required to have HID's headlights and they seem to work pretty well too.