doctorwho00
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I was hoping to get some extra light for working at night, particularly to make it a bit safer. I ended up fabricating a light bar frame as well as a headlight replacement frame and buying some off the shelf LED lights. I'm very pleased with the end result. This is also my first welding project, so welds are not pretty looking, but they worked and are strong. It looks pretty decent, and the amount of light it produces it pretty stunning. It lights up my field like a high school football field on a Friday night. I can do a lot of work after dark now when needed. I just thought I'd pass this along, as I wasn't able to find any ready-made, after-market options to speak of.
Lightbar
- Purchased a 13" 1800 lumen, 72w LED lightbar off of eBay
- Fabricated a frame to mount it to (and mainly keep it from getting beaten up by limbs, etc) Welded up some tube stock and flat stock.
- Painted the frame, then mounted to my ROPS with a couple of painted u-clamps
- Wired up a switch on my right fender
Headlights
- Purchased some 15w LED lights from NorthernTool. (two for each headlight)
- Fabricated a frame for each pair of LEDs that matched the mounting holes of the OEM headlights. Welded on a nut to match the OEM headlight bracket.
- Painted the frames
- Used the existing wiring harness plugs from the OEM headlights and wired them up to my new LED pairs. In order to support a "low beam/high beam", I wired them up so that one light in each "headlight" comes on when turned to "low", and then both lights in each "headlight" turn on when turned to high. In order to make this work, I put a 1amp diode between the two wires (low and high) on each wiring harness plug so that the electricity would only flow one direction. I then used heatshrink around the bare wires that I soldered to protect it and finish it.
Pics of Headlight Project
Headlights
Wiring harness
Mounted from inside hood
Finished product
Low Beam
High Beam
Pics of Lightbar Project
Initial frame (without paint)
Finished Product
Before (with old headlights on only)
After (lightbar on with old headlights)
Lightbar
- Purchased a 13" 1800 lumen, 72w LED lightbar off of eBay
- Fabricated a frame to mount it to (and mainly keep it from getting beaten up by limbs, etc) Welded up some tube stock and flat stock.
- Painted the frame, then mounted to my ROPS with a couple of painted u-clamps
- Wired up a switch on my right fender
Headlights
- Purchased some 15w LED lights from NorthernTool. (two for each headlight)
- Fabricated a frame for each pair of LEDs that matched the mounting holes of the OEM headlights. Welded on a nut to match the OEM headlight bracket.
- Painted the frames
- Used the existing wiring harness plugs from the OEM headlights and wired them up to my new LED pairs. In order to support a "low beam/high beam", I wired them up so that one light in each "headlight" comes on when turned to "low", and then both lights in each "headlight" turn on when turned to high. In order to make this work, I put a 1amp diode between the two wires (low and high) on each wiring harness plug so that the electricity would only flow one direction. I then used heatshrink around the bare wires that I soldered to protect it and finish it.
Pics of Headlight Project
Headlights
Wiring harness
Mounted from inside hood
Finished product
Low Beam
High Beam
Pics of Lightbar Project
Initial frame (without paint)
Finished Product
Before (with old headlights on only)
After (lightbar on with old headlights)